TV writer Brian Donovan first heard of the Quebec maple syrup heist quite by accident. "I was at a boring family Christmas party, just looking for anything interesting to talk about," he says.

Ruth teams up with a hot-headed Bostonian mobster (Diamantopoulos) and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard (Cyr) to execute a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus.

Here’s what to know about the maple syrup heist, why it happened, and how the series lampoons the whole debacle. Quebec is the leading producer of maple syrup in the world. Similar to the ...

In July 2012, Michel Gavreau was conducting a routine inspection of a maple syrup warehouse near Laurierville, Quebec. He climbed up a stack of 600-pound barrels, expecting them to support his weight, ...

The six-episode series centers around Martindale’s character Ruth, a gritty maple syrup farmer in Quebec who is on the brink of losing her farm and has found herself at odds with the greedy head ...

What could be more Canadian? The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, the victims of the crime, probably wish everyone would forget about this theft – it exposed their incompetence. Even though a ...

In 2011, a group of thieves stole more than $18 million worth of maple syrup from Quebec’s strategic reserves, and that daring crime serves as the basis for The Sticky. Nonetheless, Prime Video ...

At the Quebec Maple Association’s warehouse, Remy is angered after being shamed and humiliated after petitioning his boss, Léo (Mickaël Gouin) for a promotion and additional security to help ...

In late 2011 and early 2012, nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup worth $18.7 million went missing from a warehouse operated by the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, a supply management organization that ...

His new series “The Sticky” taps into yet another distinctly Canadian staple by setting the action in Quebec's maple syrup industry, but Diamantopoulos says the Prime Video dramedy offers a ...

In 2011 and 2012, over a period of several months, some 3,000 tons of maple syrup, then worth $18.7 million (Canadian) were stolen from a Quebec warehouse, in what became known as the Great ...

His new series “The Sticky” taps into yet another distinctly Canadian staple by setting the action in Quebec’s maple syrup industry, but Diamantopoulos says the Prime Video dramedy offers a ...