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The Hook delivers New Brunswick stories that capture your attention and make you want more. The stories might be humorous or serious or just entertaining. But they will always be thought-provoking.

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Episode 12: The Speaker's Choice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In 1978, Bob McCready saved Premier Richard Hatfield's government. McCready was a Liberal MLA who was appointed Speaker of the Legislature by the Progressive Conservative premier. It padded Hatfiel...

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Episode 11: The Brophy/Lidstone case from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In January 1978, RCMP officers Perry Brophy and Barry Lidstone were escorting Bonita Crombie to a trailer in Hoyt, N.B., where her estranged husband lived. Crombie was terrified of her husband. Sho...

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Episode 10: Behind the Walls from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For more than a year, the family of 33-year-old Matthew Hines believed he died from a seizure. The true story of his final two hours inside Dorchester Penitentiary would devastate and haunt them. T...

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Episode 9: The Pepsi Lobster from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Karissa Lindstrand made headlines when she found a lobster with what appeared to be a Pepsi logo stamped on its claw last fall. The curiosity surrounding the colourful crustacean was picked up arou...

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Episode 8: I'm a soldier: Sheldon Roberts' fight for life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ten years after returning from Afghanistan, Sheldon Roberts is still fighting for his life. Roberts discusses his biggest battle, the battle with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Episode 7: Searching for Snow Crab from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Until North Atlantic right whales started dying in frightening numbers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, there was little talk of the lucrative snow crab fishery off New Brunswick. Freelance journalist ...

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Episode 6: Hungry for answers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Across New Brunswick, there are dozens of food banks and soup kitchens feeding people who are struggling. But after nearly 40 years of fundraising and food drives, the number of people in need cont...

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Episode 5: Avoiding the next devastating flood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Now that New Brunswick is shifting out of crisis mode following the devastating flood, it's time to start looking at the big picture. This week's episode is all about flooding, from new development...

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Episode 4: Secret Agent Nelson Cloud from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spies, intrigue, Cold War politics: It all came to Saint John in 1974 when some well-meaning people tried Marxist Leninist politics on for size. But a young Nelson Cloud finds he's in a little too ...

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Episode 3: Finding Max from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The CBC's Viola Pruss takes you on a journey as she searches for clues about her great grandfather Max Pruss, the captain of the Hindenburg airship. The Hindenburg, the world's largest airship, cra...

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Episode 2: The Strange Stone Carvings of Saint John from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Uptown Saint John has a reputation for strange characters — and the 16 sandstone figures carved on the Chubb's Corner building are no exception. How they got there, and who they're supposed to repr...

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Episode 1: Meet the mighty mistle thrush of Miramichi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Deana and Peter Gadd didn't plan on hosting more than 540 crazed birders from across North America in their backyard this winter. But a lonely European mistle thrush changed all that. Vanessa Blanc...

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