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An illustrated account of the great maple syrup heist. Sony pictures confirmed the new movie to time on thursday. Quebec provincial police have seized hundreds of barrels of maple syrup from a new brunswick business, telling the company that it was linked. After the provinces federation of quebec maple syrup rented a. How did a maple syrup heist movie slip through our fingers. Jason segel is starring in a movie about a maple syrup heist. Nearly 75% of the worlds supply of maple syrup comes from quebec, where it was worth about times the price of crude oil during the time of the heist.
Like one guy talking shit about what kind of idiot would steal maple syrup, and the other treating it as if someone just broke into the canadian equivalent of fort knox, and robbed the mother fucker basically, shit is going down, and someone is gonna fry. Quebec maple syrup heist set for hollywood film huffpost canada. Output of maple syrup in quebec, the largest global producer, is poised to fall. Quebec maple syrup heist set for hollywood film well, it may be too late for a canadian maple syrup heist movie, but let this be our wakeup call. Multimilliondollar syrup heist puts quebec in sticky spot. Sep 26, 20 sony pictures will make a film, starring actor jason segel, based on canadas great maple syrup caper, deadline reports. The accused face a variety of charges including theft. The federation of quebec maple syrup producers french. Dec 07, 2016 this was not the only maple syrup heist of its kind. This intense netflix documentary about quebecs infamous maple. To bring everyone up to date this cartel controls 81 percent of the pure maple syrup that you find in the expensive bottles.
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Dec 20, 2012 montreal quebec police are saying 18 people have now been arrested in a massive maple syrup heist. The heist sounds like something out of a hollywood movie and. One of the ringleaders in the great canadian maple syrup heist. Sony picks up maple syrup heist project, jason segel. The story behind that multimillion dollar canadian syrup heist is incredibly. The other provinces where it is produced are ontario, new brunswick, prince edward island and nova scotia. Federation of quebec maple syrup producers nprs ari shapiro talks with vanity fair writer rich cohen, about the cartel that controls the majority of the worlds maple. Trial opens in largest theft ever investigated by quebec police investigators found that over a 12month period in 2011 and 2012, nearly 3,000 tonnes of syrup valued. The accused face a variety of charges including theft, conspiracy, fraud and receiving stolen.
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