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The Dream Vacation That Became a Double Death We have sat across kitchen tables from families who came home from the Caribbean with empty arms. The Gougeon family flew out of Toronto Pearson in late December 2023 for the trip every parent plans: sun, a buffet, an ocean-view room at the Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic. Four of them walked into that resort. Two of them came home alive. April Gougeon and her eight-year-old son Oliver never made it back. A Dominican coroner confirmed they died from complications related to food poisoning they suffered at the resort buffet on their very first night. Their father Stephen and seven-year-old son Wesley survived, but they survived the kind of trauma that rearranges a family forever. Stephen had to sit down with Wesley and explain that his mother and his older brother were not coming back. That family filed a $10 million lawsuit in Toronto Superior Court against Wyndham Hotel Canada II Inc., Air Transat Holidays A.T. Inc., Transat Tours Canada Inc., Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham, and the resort’s on-site medical clinic, Clinica Canela. This page is for any Canadian family who has lost someone to illness or…