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Food's Carbon Footprint: Creating Sustainable Sources
The food we eat is under threat. There's less arable land and more people to feed than ever before. Add to that the fact that everything we produce leaves a carbon footprint. Greenhouse gases are created in the way we grow, harvest, ship, store, package, cook and dispose of the food we eat. So...
When the World Began
Episode 1: 15 000 BCE to 1800 CE. The opening episode of this series ranges across the continent, looking back more than 15,000 years to recount the varied history of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada. From the rich resource of native oral history and archeology com...
War of Independence (1812-1813)
Fearless, ingenious, and for the first time — united. The War of 1812 is Canada’s War of Independence. With the British Empire entrenched in a European war, a disparate group of Indigenous, French Canadian, Scottish, African Canadian and even ex-pat Americans join together to fight for Canada....
Birth of a Family (Educational Version)
Kids in Jail
Headdress
Maya/Mathangi/M.I.A. - The Making of a Political Pop Star
Worlds Collide (pre-1608-1759)
Hundreds of Indigenous nations with advanced cultures already live in Canada when French and English colonizers arrive and fight for land claims. Indigenous people suffer as a result of first contact. Features stories/events include: Turtle Island, Samuel de Champlain and early settlements, We...
Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time
Residential Schools and Hockey
Duncan McCue explores how hockey provided an outlet for many Indigenous students in Canada's residential school system.
#StandForCanada Youth Challenge: K-8 students at Harriett Todd Public School
This video was created by K-8 students at Harriett Todd Public School in Orillia, Ontario, for our #StandForCanada Youth Challenge. Their Canada 150 celebration is truly a movement!
Birth of a Family
Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigen...