Germano Tomassetti

He's probably about 60 years old.

And I just made it a point to check in with him every day.

We would eat together.

We would talk as much as we could with his, you know, his French, Sicilian, Italian words that he'd throw in with the English.

And we just became good friends.

And

He was a little bit unhealthy.

He, you know, he's had a terrible cough to sound like he was going to drop half the time.

He had, you know, full set of dentures.

He would even talk to himself a few times too.

So I was, I kind of thought maybe he's not well, maybe he's a little crazy.

He's definitely unhealthy, but whatever.

It helped me pass the time, having that responsibility of taking care of someone again, which is what I was used to doing.

so i remember some of his stories weren't adding up when i asked him why he was there you know one one time he's there to collect money from an author that owes him money for a book that he wrote and then another time it's like a completely different fabricated story so i'm i'm he's homeless he's he's in the shelter he's sheltered yeah but keep in mind he's from quebec

He's from like basically Montreal, but he's in my city, Winnipeg, like a smaller city, homeless.

So it's like, why are you here?

And he even one thing he did admit to is he came here from Quebec and he went straight to the shelter.

So at the time, though, there was a huge bust on organized crime.

in ontario and quebec i forget exactly what the what it was called but you can look it up in i think it's 2015 from right about the timeline there's a huge bust where i think it's called scope operation scopa or something like that and yeah they did a bunch of arrests in italy quebec and ontario

And this was right around the time that guy shows up.