Traumatized by a gunpoint robbery in his St. Thomas store 27 years ago, part of a headline-grabbing southern Ontario crime spree, Mark Olivier — who lost almost everything — is only now openly confronting the fallout of the day the Balaclava Bandits ruined his life. Dale Carruthers reports. Read More
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