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While “The Sticky” is “absolutely not the true story” of the heist, as the show’s trailer notes, the series does call fresh attention to one of the most unusual crimes in Canadian history.
The Sticky is a 2024 dark comedy television series set in Quebec, Canada. Starring Margo Martindale and produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis , the show is loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist .
Just over a decade ago, the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist became the biggest robbery in the country’s history. Now, Brian Donovan and Ed Herro have put their own “Fargo”-like spin on the ...
Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957) [1] is an American bank robber.Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s.
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist (French: vol de sirop d'érable du siècle, lit. 'maple syrup heist of the century') was the theft over several months in 2011 and 2012 of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons) of maple syrup, valued at C$18.7 million (equivalent to C$24.1 million in 2023) from a storage facility in Quebec.
From a shocking death to a last-minute arrest, Based on a True Story took some major swings while wrapping up season 2. Warning: This story contains spoilers about season 2 of Based on a True Story.
Target Number One (released as Most Wanted in the United States, Suspect numéro un in Quebec) is a 2020 Canadian crime drama film directed by Daniel Roby. [3] Based on the true story of Alain Olivier, a Canadian drug addict from Quebec who spent eight years in prison in Thailand in the 1980s after having been set up as an unwitting pawn in an espionage plot by the Canadian Security ...
"Eric" is a foray into one man's imagination and New York in the 1980s. But is its central crime based on a true story? The new Netflix series stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffmann as ...