The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover

On a warm afternoon in Medellín, Colombia, a man is shot point-blank while eating lunch. The assailants flee, and a photo of the man’s body - still holding a fork - is shared online. It’s clear that this is a targeted killing. The victim is Jonathan Acebedo Garcia, a longtime associate of Ryan Wedding.Reporter Calvi Leon and host Michelle Shephard visit Montreal, putting together the pieces of who Jonathan was. A family man. An alleged drug smuggler. And a confidential witness for the FBI.This podcast is a co-production of Uncover from CBC and Suspicion from the Toronto Star.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]🧩 Evidence photos.  🗺️ Unreleased maps.  📼 Interview outtakes.  📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]👇 [Be the 18%.]— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Michelle Shephard travels to Mexico City, visiting the last known locations Ryan Wedding was spotted. After almost 10 years on the run, it’s suspected that Wedding is operating his alleged empire from this sprawling metropolis - commanding killings and drug shipments thousands of kilometers away. Alongside Miguel Vega, a ‘fixer’ with contacts inside the Sinaloa Cartel, they trace his footsteps to find out how an alleged narco kingpin could stay hidden for so long. But back in Canada, a lucky traffic stop and a bag full of cash start to break open the case against Wedding. This podcast is a co-production of Uncover from CBC and Suspicion from the Toronto Star.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]🧩 Evidence photos.  🗺️ Unreleased maps.  📼 Interview outtakes.  📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]👇 [Be the 18%.]— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Former federal agent Brett Kalina is one of only a handful of law enforcement officers to come face to face with Ryan Wedding. In 2008, after years following the flow of money and drugs, Kalina arrests ‘The Boss’ and watches as the ex-snowboarder goes to trial.But once behind bars, Wedding turns the tables. He makes prison work for him, using his time inside a violent Texas detention centre to allegedly make criminal connections and cartel contacts. And the next time the police come looking for him, he’s already gone. This podcast is a co-production of Uncover from CBC and Suspicion from the Toronto Star.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]🧩 Evidence photos.  🗺️ Unreleased maps.  📼 Interview outtakes.  📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]👇 [Be the 18%.]— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Shots ring out in a neighbourhood north-west of Toronto. A father is dead and a mother and daughter are in hospital, battling for their lives. When Toronto Star reporter Calvi Leon arrives on the scene days later, witnesses tell her what really happened. What she learns starts her down a path she could never have imagined and leads to one man: former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.How does a small town Canadian kid, who was once called a labrador puppy by his teammates, find himself on the FBI’s Most Wanted list?This podcast is a co-production of Uncover from CBC and Suspicion from the Toronto Star.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]🧩 Evidence photos.  🗺️ Unreleased maps.  📼 Interview outtakes.  📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]👇 [Be the 18%.]— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

The Most Wanted Olympian is an official 2026 Tribeca Festival Winner. How did a small town Canadian boy allegedly become a narco kingpin? Ryan Wedding was once a promising young athlete, a snowboarder who reached the Olympics. Now captured after a decade on the run, he’s accused of running a deadly international drug trafficking empire.In this new podcast from CBC and the Toronto Star, host Michelle Shephard and journalist Calvi Leon trace Wedding’s descent into a violent criminal underworld. From his beginnings at his family ski hill outside Thunder Bay, to Toronto and the shocking murders he’s accused of ordering, to Mexico where he was believed to be protected by the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, they uncover his illicit connections and the stories behind the victims caught in the crossfire.Featuring on-the-ground reporting and original interviews, this podcast investigates the Canadian who the FBI called a “modern day El Chapo” and asks: what will it take to bring him to justice?This series is a co-production of Uncover from CBC and Suspicion from the Toronto Star.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]🧩 Evidence photos.  🗺️ Unreleased maps.  📼 Interview outtakes.  📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]👇 [Be the 18%.]— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━