True Stories: High Water Rescue
An innocent tubing trip with friends nearly turns deadly for a B.C. teenager. Can a specialized search and rescue team get to her in time?
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Whiz Kids
Adam and Shayla made a scientific breakthrough that might transform a billion-dollar industry. But their parents still expect them to set the table.
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True Stories: Strike Team Inferno
The incredibe, action-packed tale of the firefighters who risked their lives battling one of the biggest wildire disasters in Canadian history.
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Mission Titanic - Uncovering the Deep-Sea Wreckage
Dive into the journey to resurrect the Titanic shipwreck, a century after its tragic maiden voyage.
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True Stories: An Ordinary Thief
Melissa Morgan is a suburban mom and policeman's wife, who lives in a four-bedroom home. She is also a compulsive shoplifter.
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True Stories: Health Care's Epic Fail
The federal government promised to give every Canadian an electronic health record. Eleven years, and $2 billion later, we're still waiting. Lives are hanging in the balance.
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True Stories: Bear Hug
Charlie Russell spent 10 years living with bears in Eastern Russia. Now he’s out to show Canada that humans and grizzlies can get along.
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True Stories: Miracle Mom
An innovative surgical procedure literally disassembled cancer patient Janis Ollson - and gave her the chance to raise her kids.
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True Stories: Mayday! Mayday!
Adrift in the Pacific Ocean, two men struggle to stay alive.
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True Stories: Abandon Ship!
Forty-eight Canadian high-school students took to the sea and were on the adventure of their lives - untill they had to Abandon Ship.
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Can We Cure Hospital Food?
Hospital food is famously awful. But health-care groups are trying to change that— one home-cooked meal at a time. -
A Family Battle with Heart Transplants
John McBride lay near death as his loved ones prepared for the inevitable. A timely heart transplant saved his life. Twelve years later his son is given the same diagnosis.
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A Deadly Snowstorm
On December 13, 2010, hundreds of motorists were trapped by a blinding snowstorm, which shut down a 30-kilometre stretch of highway in southern Ontario. Here’s one driver’s story of a very long day.
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Drama in Real Life: Failure on Flight 516
High over northern Russia, an airplane’s control systems begin switching off, one by one. Read on to find out exactly what happened on Flight 516.
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The Mom Who Died Twice
Niolys Garcia waited years to re-experience the miracle of childbirth. Little did she know it would kill her—twice.
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