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"CBC's Geoff Leo examines the unstudied issue of fatherlessness in Aboriginal communities. It is a fact of life for many Aboriginal children in this country: their dads are absent. And if the statistics don't change, a g...
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World Wa...
Set during the Great Depression in Canada, and follows the continuing struggles of the Bailey family.
"We begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one s...
A collection of stories about record store owner Dave, his long-suffering wife Morley, and their kids Stephanie and Sam.
When they are orphaned in 1940s Argue, Saskatchewan, sixteen-year-old Ran, fourteen-year-old Nora, twelve-year-old Jim and little Addie find a way to make ends meet under the watchful eye of their ghostly parents. Story ...
Season 12 of Heartland sees the Bartlett-Fleming clan dealing with day-to-day challenges and pursuing forgotten dreams. Their strength will be tested as they face personal struggles and must look to one another for guida...
After a year of heartache and hardship, Honey plans a new life for herself setting up a new beauty shop and finding a new husband. They rally to face the the difficulties of the Great Depression with humor and love.
Amy and Ty find it a challenge to balance their professional schedules with the realities of raising a newborn, especially as Ty's work pulls him away from home from time to time. Nevertheless, Amy is determined to retur...
Ty and Amy's pregnancy journey has some bumps along the way to the highly anticipated birth. Also, Mallory returns and Lou explores new business opportunities while holding her own as a single mom. With familiar faces re...
The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dang...
Stories from the CBC radio show The Vinyl Cafe.
"After her husband died in 1926 from a suspected drowning, Capi Blanchet spent every summer cruising BC's west coast with her five children and their dog in the family's 25-foot boat. The Curve of Time is the book Capi w...
Living on her family's farm in British Columbia in the 1940s, 15-year-old Beth Weeks escapes her abusive father and her troubled mother in a friendship with Nora, a young Native woman. Beth struggles to cope, even as she...
"Seventeen-year-old Susan Thomas's future is set. Or so everyone else says. No one knows that her parents are on the verge of a divorce in Canada after years of a happy marriage in Saudi Arabia. Or that Susan wants to be...
Grace tries to find love, while Honey and Max build their new life together as Bob and Toppy's marriage starts to crumble; the Silver Dome Mine closes, forcing May to restructure her finances and re-open; and more.