CANADA'S "DIRTY LITTLE SECRET"

I recently read Jon Krakauer's fascinating Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, which traces the history of the Mormon Church and particularly the polygamist sects it spawned.

Krakauer devotes a whole chapter to the Mormom fundamentalist colony of Bountiful in British Columbia, depicting it as a hotbed of repression, incest and sexual abuse.

But according to a report in today's Telegraph, Bountiful is about to come under close scrutiny, with BC's attorney general launching an extensive investigations into the allegations made by former residents (I see the Calgary Sun also carried a report on this story last week.)

CBC ran a documentary on Bountiful last year and has an interesting website from the programme.