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Terence McKenna investigates the United Nations Oil for Food programme and reveals how it became the largest bribery and corruption scandal in history. Started in 1996, the programme was designed to help alleviate starvation and disease in Iraq brought on by international economic sanctions that resulted from the 1991 Gulf War. McKenna talks to many […]

Atkins. South Beach. The Sonoma Diet. The Coconut Diet. Every day a new diet is born and confused consumers struggle through conflicting messages to choose the right path to weight loss. In the battle between the marketing pressures to eat more, versus the social pressure to weigh less, only the marketers are the real winners. […]

Called “a sleep-deprived Steve Martin” by Time Magazine, Canada’s own Sean Cullen is one of the most original comedic minds of our time. For more than a decade, this master of stream-of-consciousness improvisation, parody, absurdism and calculus has performed all over the globe. After guest-starring at the 20th anniversary of Just for Laughs, Cullen brings […]

This modern day Romeo and Juliet tale follows a young Indo-Canadian woman who defies her family and pays the ultimate price. Beautiful young Davinder secretly marries her lover, from a lower caste in Sikh society, while visiting India. When their secret tryst is discovered, her father and mother are livid. This compelling tale is told […]

From the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil comes an extraordinary new family series designed especially for television. A magical solar wind transforms everyday life into a playful world blending fantasy with acrobatic performance. Ordinary characters suddenly change into jugglers, hand-balancers, acrobats, contortionists and myriad other fantastic incarnations. Each episode is thematically driven exploring Childhood, Escape, Adventure […]

Iraq’s treasures are being ransacked and there is nothing anyone can do stop it. Part detective story, part historical thriller, part archeological tragedy; this is the truth behind the massive wholesale looting of an entire country by organized gangs of criminals. It’s the story of collectors in Canada, New York, Switzerland and Norway who are […]

Given the option of going to jail or attending an all-star football training camp, an athletically talented but troubled teenager (Riley Smith) reluctantly chooses the gridiron. A successful performance at camp will land him a “full-ride” college scholarship, but his bad attitude is about to seal his fate – until he meets a sexy young […]

Robert Flaherty was the very first to bring us a film (‘Nanook of the North’) based on the idea that reality could be as gripping as fiction. This story of adventure, heartbreak and the birth of an art form enjoyed wild success and encouraged Robert Flaherty to go on and shoot such epics as ‘Moana […]

Pain is too intense a place to stay for too long. But for some people the pain never goes away, even long after the original injury has healed. Why does pain turn into chronic pain in some people and not others? And why do we know so little about it? A Disease Called Pain examines […]