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Story focuses on political powerbroker and unethical dealing among upper echelons of fictitious provincial government.
Tragic tale of a distraught young mother who edges ever closer to the emotional breaking point.
A hauntingly beautiful film about a 100 year old Metis woman living with her son in a Toronto slum. Realizing death is near; she indicates her desire to return to her distant birthplace to be embraced by the free roaming spirits of her ancestors.
When a 14-year-old girl decides to swim across Lake Ontario, bookmakers lay eleven-to-one odds on the lake.
The story of an old man who refuses to move off his land despite an official order of expropriation.
Story of a factory worker who decides that the workers must demand their rights, and sets out to do something about it.
Contaminated water from the Garrison Dam Project in Northern Dakota sweeps across Manitoba farmland. When their cries for help to the provincial and federal governments go unheard, a desperate group of Canadian farmers plan an invasion of the US to focus attention on their plight.
The story of an emotionally disturbed boy and a native shaman.
Story of Hank, a hard working owner of a small fresh produce wholesale concern whose life is shattered when ruthless competitors want his business.
The Tar Sands imagined and recreated the negotiations that led to the Syncrude agreement for the development of the Athabasca tar sands in 1975. It included both fictional characters and characters based on actual participants in the historical events.
This program looks at rape and its repercussions. A powerful drama that explores rape and its emotional aftermath, which can be as horrifying as the crime itself.
Lou Gagnon and Jenny are nomads. With their Metis friend, Marcel, they travel the rodeo circuit and the dust and the yells and the hardness are their companions. Then Lou, badly hungover, breaks his leg and is in hospital. Marcel, with a teenage girl to care for, takes her to an Indian reserve and Jenny, for the first time in her life, has roots.
A young doctor (Richard Monette) risks his future when he questions the motivations of a long-established surgeon (Alan Scarfe) who is endangering the lives of patients through his experiments.
An injury suffered by a young woman (Lynn Griffin) launches her journalist father (Ken Pogue) on an information hunt that leads to several very startling and highly protected discoveries.
Peter Lyon a crusading journalist and star of his own successful series, Lyon's Den, who finds himself caught in a professional and personal crisis. While producing a show on teenage vandalism, he discovers his own children are part of a gang that is destroying homes in his neighborhood.
A mother struggles to straighten out her delinquent seventeen-year-old son.
