{"id":807434,"date":"2026-07-17T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:08:14","slug":"sask-man-who-housed-queen-of-canada-cult-leader-to-stand-trial-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807434\/","title":{"rendered":"Sask. man who housed ‘Queen of Canada’ cult leader to stand trial next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man who housed a cult leader in Saskatchewan is set to go to trial early next year.<\/p>\n

Ricky Manz faces various charges, including assaulting a police officer, mischief and failing to comply with an undertaking and release order.<\/p>\n

His trial is set to start Jan. 5 in Swift Current, Sask.<\/p>\n

Manz owns a former school building in the village of Richmound, Sask., about 360 kilometres west of Regina, near the Alberta border, where Romana Didulo, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada,” and her so-called Kingdom of Canada followers lived for two years.<\/p>\n

WATCH | New community greenhouse in the works after ‘Queen of Canada’ cult forced out of Richmound:\"\"<\/p>\n

New community greenhouse in the works after ‘Queen of Canada’ cult forced out of Richmound<\/p>\n

The Village of Richmound, Sask., is planning to build a community greenhouse in the shadow of the old school building that once housed Romana Didulo and her followers.<\/p>\n

Richmound locals have said they were tormented by the cult and that the building was leaking sewage.<\/p>\n

Manz and Didulo were arrested last year during a police raid after reports someone inside the building had a firearm.<\/p>\n

In March, all charges against Didulo and one charge against Manz were stayed.<\/p>\n

Village residents recently held a celebration to mark a new beginning, as cult members have not returned to the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-807434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}