The famous hoaxter's name was Roger Tetreault. Here are 2 articles
about him. He died in 95 aged 54.

Pranks, Lies and Videotape: city's consummate con man comes clean;
[FINAL Edition]
MIKE BOONE. The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jun 12, 1991. pg. C.12.BR
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Author(s): MIKE BOONE
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Column Name: TV & RADIO
Section: ENTERTAINMENT: SHOW
Publication title: The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jun 12, 1991. pg. C.12.BR
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Abstract (Article Summary)

The next [Roger Tetreault] gag may top his previous classics - but I
doubt it. The guy has a matchless track record as a media manipulator.
As chronicled in Pranks, Lies and Videotape - Stephen Langford's
terrific short documentary that aired last night on Newswatch - the
Tetreault file includes:

Tetreault is a self-described 1960s idealist turned cynical prankster
(my description) - a complex man of fascinating contradictions. He
doesn't like government or big business. But Tetreault reserves
special scorn for those who aren't diligent enough in pursuing the
journalist's duty to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Convicted in 1963 as an FLQ bomber (he maintains his innocence, saying
he was researching a newspaper story on the independence activists),
Tetreault says he is a staunch federalist. And although he's a former
reporter who is fascinated by the media, Tetreault says his hoaxes are
designed to expose shoddy journalism.
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(Copyright The Gazette)

Roger Tetreault went on TV last night and revealed himself as a con
man, but Montreal's merry prankster promises the revelation won't
prevent him from pulling off more hoaxes at the expense of gullible
Quebec media.

"My next project is done," Tetreault said yesterday. "It might be
breaking in the news tomorrow or the day after."

The next Tetreault gag may top his previous classics - but I doubt it.
The guy has a matchless track record as a media manipulator. As
chronicled in Pranks, Lies and Videotape - Stephen Langford's terrific
short documentary that aired last night on Newswatch - the Tetreault
file includes:

* Water Aid for America, a phony organization that was supposed to be
shipping Great Lakes water to the parched states of the American
Midwest in the summer of 1988. Tetreault called himself Yvon Rocher,
Canadian Press moved the story, and the sale of our water became a hot
issue in Ottawa.

* In 1988, Tetreault - using the name Gerard Kenny - co-wrote a story
for The Gazette on ease of access to government computer records.
Although he may have concealed his identity, that story itself proved
true; two civil servants pleaded guilty later that year to selling
confidential data. Tetrault built on that success. "I used the Gazette
byline to sell a story to Pulse," he says.

* Tetreault presented himself as an expert on the aftereffects of
nuclear disasters, appearing on Radio-Canada's Telejournal newscast to
assess the impact of Chernobyl.

* Tetreault convinced the Montreal Daily News and CJAD that he was a
practising witch.

* As Robert Martin in 1971, Tetreault perpetrated a more sinister
hoax. He set up a fictitious organization, the League of Women's
Rights, which accused provincial cabinet minister Claire Kirkland-
Casgrain of being anti-feminist.

* In 1968, Tetreault convinced the Star Weekly that there was an FLQ
terrorist training camp in the Laurentians. Later, he concocted a memo
purporting to link the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to the FLQ, a
fiction that became a cause for friction between Canada and the U.S.

Quite a career! And Tetreault is not shy about describing his hoaxes.

Several months ago, the flamboyant former journalist sent out releases
to major news organizations across Canada. Tetreault offered to come
clean about his career as a con man.

Nobody picked up on the lead except Newswatch. Langford tracked down
Tetreault at home (the release had listed only a phone number) and
spent two months verifying the hoaxster's remarkable story.

Tetreault is a self-described 1960s idealist turned cynical prankster
(my description) - a complex man of fascinating contradictions. He
doesn't like government or big business. But Tetreault reserves
special scorn for those who aren't diligent enough in pursuing the
journalist's duty to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Convicted in 1963 as an FLQ bomber (he maintains his innocence, saying
he was researching a newspaper story on the independence activists),
Tetreault says he is a staunch federalist. And although he's a former
reporter who is fascinated by the media, Tetreault says his hoaxes are
designed to expose shoddy journalism.

"My purpose," he says, "is to illustrate that journalism, especially
in Quebec, is very lax. There is a marked absence of intellectual vigor.

"Too many people in the media just wait for handouts," Tetreault adds.
"Too much of what is presented as news is just rewritten PR material."

Tetreault describes his hoaxes as "disinformation operations." He
compares his fabrications favorably with public-relations campaigns
mounted on behalf of major corporations.

Tetreault promises more lies to come. While working as a dishwasher in
a Montreal restaurant - "I'm a capable writer, but my CV doesn't look
so good" - Tetreault spends his spare time cooking up new ways to gull
the media.

Will journalists be fooled again?

"Hoaxes are easy to pull off if you understand the news business the
way Tetreault does," says Roch Magnan, executive producer of Newswatch.

"The genius of this guy is his ability to seize on the climate of the
day and put out fake stories that are anchored in reality."
[Illustration]
Black & White Photo; Those Tetrault fooled include CBC and Canadian Press.
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Tetreault noted for duping media; [FINAL Edition]
The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jan 25, 1995. pg. A.5
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Abstract (Article Summary)

Roger Tetreault, a media prankster who duped Montreal reporters for
decades, died Saturday night of a heart attack. He was 54.

Over a 25-year period, the former journalist passed himself off as a
nuclear expert commenting on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster;
posed as an environmental activist, urging Canada to divert water to
the U.S. during a drought; and circulated stories about secret FLQ
training grounds in the Laurentians.
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(Copyright The Gazette)

Roger Tetreault, a media prankster who duped Montreal reporters for
decades, died Saturday night of a heart attack. He was 54.

He gained notoriety in 1991 after he told the CBC he had been
manipulating the media for years.

Over a 25-year period, the former journalist passed himself off as a
nuclear expert commenting on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster;
posed as an environmental activist, urging Canada to divert water to
the U.S. during a drought; and circulated stories about secret FLQ
training grounds in the Laurentians.

In 1988, using a fictitious name, he co-wrote a story for The Gazette
about how easy it was to access government computers.

His girlfriend, Louise Begin, described him as a rebel who fought
against injustice. In a 1991 interview, Mr. Tetreault said his aim was
to "illustrate that journalism in Quebec is very lax."

But he wasn't always a cute trickster. In 1964, he was sentenced to
four years for planting an FLQ bomb in La Prevoyante building on Place
d'Armes. He was freed on parole, but was tossed back into prison in
1966 after striking a woman.

In October 1993, he was sentenced to six months in jail after he was
found guilty of defrauding the welfare system of $28,662 and using a
cancelled credit card.

He is to be cremated today.

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--- In MediainMontreal@yahoogroups.com, Ed Arzouian <edatfb@y...> wrote:
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(http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/40924/news/nunavik/40924_01.html )
>
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> To: "Ed Arzouian" <ed@a...>
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: nature of your business?
>
>
>
> Good evening Mr. Arzouian,
>
> What is the reason of your question?
>
> Cordially,
>
>
> At 09:34 PM 11/1/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dear Mr. LaGuerre,
> >
> >Could you tell me what your business canadadventure.com does?
> >
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> >
> >Ed Arzouian,
> >St. Anicet, QC
>
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> stevew2montreal <stevewong@v...> wrote:
>
> The hoaxster you're thinking of died about 4 years ago. He scammed
> the media, numerous times over a 30 year period or so. Then CBC
> Montreal television reporter Stephen Langford, got to know this
> hoaxster in his later years. I can't remember his name. Jim Duff
> probably knows the name of this guy.
>
> Steve
>
> --- In MediainMontreal@yahoogroups.com, "snakeybum" <steady@w...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Saturday Night got burnt in a big way last year by a hoax about
> > children being raised in the woods (see below) and there are loads
> of
> > hoax stories about kids being raised by animals in the forest. I
> don't
> > know if this is a hoax or not but I have trust in Todd and hoaxes
> seem
> > to require a lot of energy without any real reward, so why'd
> anybody
> > bother. I figure he's reading these posts, he should just respond
> here.
> >
> > Does anybody remember a big-time hoaxster in Montreal about 20
> years
> > ago who fooled the media on repeated occasions? I vaguely recall
> > seeing something detailing his pranks, I've tried to find out more
> > about him but come up empty.
> >
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Roseville, Placer County -- Two brothers who said they were born
> and
> > raised in the Canadian wilderness appear to be two brothers who
> were
> > born and raised in urban California and left their home near
> > Sacramento only last summer.
> >
> > Their mysterious situation caught the attention of the Royal
> Canadian
> > Mounted Police and Canadian network television after they were
> > discovered camping in the woods near Vernon, a city of 33,000 about
> > 175 miles northeast of Vancouver. They claimed their parents had
> moved
> > north from the Bay Area years ago but refused to elaborate and
> could
> > not produce any documents to prove their identity -- and they could
> > neither work nor receive government assistance without such
> documents.
> >
> > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
> file=/c/a/2004/04/03/MNGIQ609LL1.DTL
> >
> > --- In MediainMontreal@yahoogroups.com, Neil Schwartzman
> > <spamfighter@g...> wrote:
> > > Oh, I'm not saying you aren't right to be suspicious. I'm just
> > > offering additional data. it sounds quite off, indeed.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:35:46 -0800 (PST), Ed Arzouian
> <edatfb@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > > The Canine Assocation was supposed to have done a Search and
> Rescue
> > > > operation on Northern Quebec. Footage supposely shot by them
> shows
> > them
> > > > getting into a rescue plane (a very old flaoter plane?) and
> flying
> > away.
> > > > Then they aired footage from inside the plane. Why would S&R
> team
> > film
> > > > that? They are not doing a movie they are trying to find a
> guy.
> > >
> > > --
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