The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld

With Luis Horacio Nájera

About Peter

Peter Edwards is the award-winning author of nineteen books, a producer at Top Left Entertainment and organized crime reporter at The Toronto Star.  He was an executive producer on the Netflix/CITY-TV mini-series Bad Blood, produced by New Metric Media.  Another book, One Dead Indian, was developed by Sienna Films into Gemini Award winning movie for CTV and aptn.  Peter’s latest book is Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire (with Kevin Loring).

Canadian gangsta shit. That stuff is hard.

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Peter Edwards,
Co-Owner & Producer

Crime, Organized Crime, Journalism

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Development, Music & Production

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A SMALL TOWN DESTROYED

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