This week, Rod takes us into a sad and dark period in Canadian history. Starting in the 1950s and continuing as recently as the 1990s, the Canadian government sponsored an internal campaign to eliminate all suspected gay men from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military. In a systematic, destructive and hateful manner, the Canadian government collected files on over 9,000 “suspected” gay individuals. Thousands of lives were destroyed as suspected individuals were harrassed, stalked, questioned and abused at the hands of their own government. Embarrassingly, this period also saw public funds put towards the development of ridiculous methods to identifying or out suspected gay individuals, including government sponsored development of the “Fruit Machine” - allegedly able to measure the diameter of the pupils of the eyes (pupillary response test), perspiration, and pulse for a supposed erotic response to various pictures. Toast: Raw - Peppercorn...