Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'jimjones'
March 6, 2007
Jim Jones was not your typical self-proclaimed messiah. The man preached love for all races and classes, freedom of speech and socialism through Christianity. In 1978, Jones and more than 900 followers, known as Peoples Temple, moved from California to Guyana. They were going to build the ideal society. Dubbed Jonestown, after Jones himself, it was to be a utopia for the disenfranchised; a place where believers of all races and classes could lead self-sufficient......
Continue Reading "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid"November 9, 2004
Bramptonite and ex-NHLer forward Mike Danton was sentenced yesterday to a seven and a half year prison sentence for a bizarre murder-for-hire plot in East St. Louis. And by the by, the word 'bizarre' is not our word, but a term used by U.S. District Judge William Stiehl, when he said, "I do not believe in over 18 years on the bench I have been faced with a case as bizarre as this one." The......
Continue Reading "How Bizarre"