Practical & Applied Arts

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....

Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Ros...

With unprecedented access, this documentary paints an intimate, complex portrait of kids in jail. The film raises difficult yet vital questions about at-risk youth and young offenders, and asks: Should we be doing more to help them?

JJ Neepin, an Indigenous filmmaker, decides to recreate a portrait of her great-grandfather wearing his headdress to spark discussion on the weight and meaning of leadership, tradition and cultural appropriation.

British rapper M.I.A. talks about her origins and her desire to use her music as a public platform to keep the focus on the refugee crisis, particularly the genocide facing the Tamils in her homeland of Sri Lanka.

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...

This feature-length documentary focuses on four individuals who have lived through painful and horrific events but have managed to find the ability to forgive. Lesley Parrott, Anne Marie Hagan, Alan McBride, and Reverend Julie Nicholson have all lost family members through violent crimes and are ...

Three million years ago, the rise of the Panamanian land bridge connected the American continents and unleashed an astonishing animal encounter. The emergence of the narrow, 400-mile-long Isthmus of Panama is one of the most important events in Earth’s history – and one of the least understood...

Duncan McCue explores how hockey provided an outlet for many Indigenous students in Canada's residential school system.

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!

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...

Un thème intense! On la retrouve partout et dans toutes sortes de formes. Mais pourquoi ça existe encore? Cette semaine on s'attaque agressivement à cette question épineuse et attendez-vous à des révélations coup-de-poing. Et tant qu'à l'avoir en pleine face, on se demande aussi comment on évite ...

Aujourd'hui à l'émission, 30 minutes dédiées à toutes les secondes, les minutes et les heures qui glissent dans nos vies comme les grains dans un sablier. Es-tu à l'heure ou en retard? Pourquoi y a-t-il 24 heures dans une journée? Que ferais-tu si ton temps était compté? On répond à toutes ces qu...

T'es seul? Personne ne t'a suivi? T'es sûr? Génial! Parce qu'aujourd'hui à l'émission tout se fait en solo. On te réserve une avalanche d'activités en solitaire comme jouer de la guitare, lancer au but en tir de barrage et garder les buts en tir de barrage. Côté animateur, Oli lance sa propre émi...

Bienvenue dans le monde de la science-fiction! Dans cet épisode on écrit le futur. De quoi va avoir l'air le monde en 2050? Quelle est la meilleure histoire de science-fiction? Peux-tu inventer une nouvelle technologie? Cette semaine l'univers est ta seule frontière. Reste plus qu'à propulser ton...