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Index of All Topics

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People   Georges Erasmus: Native Rights Crusader 1983-2002 Master Storyteller Norman Jewison 1955-2001 The Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard 1969-1999 Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Giant 1944-2003 Canada's New Queen 1951-1964 Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer 1958-1991 David Suzuki: Scientist, Activist, Broadcaster 1972-2002 Politics, Sex and Gerda Munsinger 1966-2001 The Great Wayne Gretzky 1960-1988 Robert Bourassa: Political Survivor 1966-1996 Gordon Lightfoot: Canada's Folk Laureate 1962-2002 The Gouzenko Affair 1945-1987 Mordecai Richler Was Here 1957-2002 Leonard Cohen: Canada's Melancholy Bard 1961-1993 Margaret Laurence: Canada's Divine Writer 1926-1987 René Lévesque's Separatist Fight 1967-1980 Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina 1971-1996 Running Off Track: The Ben Johnson Story 1986-1997 Still Standing: The People's Champion George Chuvalo 1958-2001 Robert Lepage: Canada's renaissance man 1957-1995 The Life and Legend of Bill Reid 1954-2002 Don Cherry: A Coach, A Commentator, A Controversy 1979-2004 Marc Garneau: Canadian Space Pioneer 1983-2000 Rethinking Riel 1966-2004 The Greatest Canadians from the CBC Archives 1966-2004 Barbara Frum: Pioneering Broadcaster 1969-1996 The Rise and Fall of Alan Eagleson 1968-1998 Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit 1967-2000 June Callwood: Canada's Conscience 1926-2004 The Voice of Hockey: Foster Hewitt 1942-1996 Marshall McLuhan, the Man and his Message 1960-1980 Trudeaumania: A Swinger for Prime Minister 1968-1971 Ski Queen Nancy Greene 1964-2000 Maurice Duplessis 1956-1999 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope 1980-1981 Gilles Villeneuve: Racing at the speed of light 1950-1982 Ed Broadbent: A Voice from the Left 1968-2004 The 'Other Revolution': Louis Robichaud's New Brunswick 1755-1970 Sue Rodriguez and the Right-To-Die Debate 1991-1995 'Comrade' Bethune: A Controversial Hero 1964-1999 Beyond Green Gables: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery 1972-2004 Al Purdy, An Uncommon Poet 1967-2004 Rick Hansen: Man In Motion 1981-2002 Phil Fontaine: Native diplomat and dealmaker 1990-2003 Peter Gzowski: Voice of Canada 1966-2002 Tommy Douglas and the NDP 1935-2001 Michel Tremblay: L'enfant terrible of Canadian Theatre 1968-2000 Witness To Evil: Roméo Dallaire and Rwanda 1993-2005 Terry Fox 25: Reliving the Marathon of Hope 1980 Reports from Abroad: Matthew Halton 1942-1956 Antonine Maillet, Acadian Avenger 1973-1998 The Legendary #9: Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1944-2000 Dr. Henry Morgentaler: Fighting Canada's Abortion Laws 1969-1989 Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat 1967-2003 Jeanne Sauvé, a Woman of Firsts 1961-1993 Sir John A. Macdonald: Architect of Modern Canada 1967-2003 Mackenzie King: Public Life, Private Man 1937-2002 Uncle Louis and Canada's Golden Age 1946-1961 Dief the Chief 1950-1990 Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Swinger, Philosopher, Prime Minister 1957-2005 Lester B. Pearson: From Peacemaker to Prime Minister 1918-1972 The Man from High River: Joe Clark 1965-2001 The Long Run: The Political Rise of John Turner 1929-1999 From Cheers to Jeers: The Mulroney Years 1976-2003 Kim Campbell, First and Foremost 1957-2004 Jean Chrétien: From pool hall to Parliament Hill 1967-1986 Paul Martin: Prime Minister in Waiting 1988-2006 Glenn Gould: Variations on an Artist 1957-2000 Conflict and War   Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War 1950-1999 The October Crisis: Civil Liberties Suspended 1970 Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer 1958-1991 1939-1945: A Soldier's War 1939-1945 The Gouzenko Affair 1945-1987 Seeking Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers 1965-2000 On Every Front: Canadian Women in the Second World War 1939-1945 Continuing the Fight: Canada's Veterans 1944-2002 Canada and the Fight Against Apartheid 1952-1994 The Somalia Affair 1992-1997 D-Day: Canadians Target Juno Beach 1944-2003 Fleeing Justice: War Criminals in Canada 1947-2001 Canada's Secret War: Vietnam 1954-2003 Peacekeeper to the World 1956-2003 Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada's Diplomatic Contribution 1954-2003 Norad: Watching the Skies 1959-2002 Life after Auschwitz 1945-2004 The Italian Campaign 1943-1945 Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s 1955-1975 Victory! The End of the War in Europe 1945 Canada's Forgotten PoW Camps 1940-1999 Shadows of Hiroshima 1945-2004 Countdown to Victory: The Last Days of War in Europe 1945 One for all: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1947-2003 Witness To Evil: Roméo Dallaire and Rwanda 1993-2005 Relocation to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians 1941-1997 Reports from Abroad: Matthew Halton 1942-1956 Royal 22nd Regiment: Canada's Fighting 'Van Doos' 1914-1999 The 1991 Gulf War 1990-2001 The Oka Crisis 1989-2000 The Contentious Legacy of Dieppe 1942-1999 Love and War: Canadian War Brides 1944-1999 Arts and Entertainment   Master Storyteller Norman Jewison 1955-2001 Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Giant 1944-2003 Artists Busted: Censorship in Canada 1965-2002 April Fool's Day: The Joke's on Us! 1979-2001 Gordon Lightfoot: Canada's Folk Laureate 1962-2002 Punk Rock Comes to Canada 1977-1980 Mordecai Richler Was Here 1957-2002 Leonard Cohen: Canada's Melancholy Bard 1961-1993 Margaret Laurence: Canada's Divine Writer 1926-1987 Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina 1971-1996 The Rolling Stones: Canada gets Satisfaction 1965-1997 Le Refus global: Revolution in the Arts 1948-2002 Robert Lepage: Canada's renaissance man 1957-1995 Prairie Visionaries: Guy Maddin and the Winnipeg Film Group 1986-2004 Ruling the Airwaves: The CRTC and Canadian Content 1961-1999 The Life and Legend of Bill Reid 1954-2002 Bright Lights, Political Fights: The Canadian Film Industry 1949-2003 Barbara Frum: Pioneering Broadcaster 1969-1996 Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit 1967-2000 Banding Together: Singing Out for Disaster Relief 1950-2003 Beyond Green Gables: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery 1972-2004 Al Purdy, An Uncommon Poet 1967-2004 Peter Gzowski: Voice of Canada 1966-2002 Michel Tremblay: L'enfant terrible of Canadian Theatre 1968-2000 Antonine Maillet, Acadian Avenger 1973-1998 The Group of Seven: Painters in the Wilderness 1954-1996 Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat 1967-2003 The Stratford Festival: The First 50 Years 1953-2002 Canada goes to the Oscars 1962 The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History 1920-2006 Glenn Gould: Variations on an Artist 1957-2000 Handmade in Canada: The Art of Craft 1970-1997 Politics and Economy   Has Confederation Been Good for Newfoundland? 1948-2002 The Auto Pact: En Route to Free Trade 1965-2001 Georges Erasmus: Native Rights Crusader 1983-2002 Death Penalty Debate 1962-1987 The Berger Pipeline Inquiry 1973-1978 The Road to Bilingualism 1963-1982 At Loggerheads: The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Dispute 1982-2003 Politics, Sex and Gerda Munsinger 1966-2001 Charting the Future: Canada's New Constitution 1968-2002 Robert Bourassa: Political Survivor 1966-1996 Trudeau's Omnibus Bill: Challenging Canadian Taboos 1967-1970 Equality First: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women 1967-2001 Constitutional Discord: Meech Lake 1987-1990 The Battle for Aboriginal Treaty Rights 1971-1999 René Lévesque's Separatist Fight 1967-1980 Striking Oil in Alberta 1947-2000 Bombardier: The Snowmobile Legacy 1937-1974 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement 1985-1997 Trans-Canada Highway: Bridging the Distance 1948-2003 Concentration to Convergence: Media Ownership in Canada 1960-2003 Rethinking Riel 1966-2004 Voting in Canada: How a Privilege Became a Right 1945-2004 Mr. President Goes to Ottawa 1943-1995 Hog Wild: Canada's Pork Industry 1980-2000 Trudeaumania: A Swinger for Prime Minister 1968-1971 Maurice Duplessis 1956-1999 The Great Canadian Flag Debate 1964 Fighting Words: Bill 101 1976-1989 Ed Broadbent: A Voice from the Left 1968-2004 The Birth of Medicare 1944-1980 The 'Other Revolution': Louis Robichaud's New Brunswick 1755-1970 Scandals, Boondoggles and White Elephants 1873-2002 Selling Suds: The Beer Industry in Canada 1961-2005 À la prochaine fois: The 1980 Quebec Referendum 1976-1990 Stranger than Fiction: The Bre-X Gold Scandal 1996-2000 Phil Fontaine: Native diplomat and dealmaker 1990-2003 Revolution and Evolution in Modern China 1948-2005 Separation Anxiety: The 1995 Quebec Referendum 1994-1995 Tommy Douglas and the NDP 1935-2001 Turbulent Skies: The Air Canada Story 1939-2006 Canada's Constitutional Debate: What Makes a Nation? 1867-1964 Fished Out: The Rise and Fall of the Cod Fishery 1958-2004 Creation of Nunavut 1999 Jeanne Sauvé, a Woman of Firsts 1961-1993 Breaking the Ice: Canada and the Northwest Passage 1959-2006 Pelts, Pups and Protest: The Atlantic Seal Hunt 1958-2003 Sir John A. Macdonald: Architect of Modern Canada 1967-2003 Mackenzie King: Public Life, Private Man 1937-2002 Uncle Louis and Canada's Golden Age 1946-1961 Dief the Chief 1950-1990 Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Swinger, Philosopher, Prime Minister 1957-2005 Lester B. Pearson: From Peacemaker to Prime Minister 1918-1972 The Man from High River: Joe Clark 1965-2001 The Long Run: The Political Rise of John Turner 1929-1999 From Cheers to Jeers: The Mulroney Years 1976-2003 Kim Campbell, First and Foremost 1957-2004 Jean Chrétien: From pool hall to Parliament Hill 1967-1986 Paul Martin: Prime Minister in Waiting 1988-2006 How the West is Won: A Half-century of B.C. Elections 1952-2003 Electing Dynasties: Alberta Campaigns 1935 to 2001 1935-2001 Friendly Rivalries: Manitoba Elections, 1966-1999 1966-1999 Ontario Elections: Twenty Tumultuous Years 1985-2002 Quebec Elections: 1960-1998 1960-1998 How The East Was Won: Nova Scotia Elections (1949 – 2003) 1960-1998 PEI Elections: Liberal landslides and Tory tides 1966-2001 Newfoundland and Labrador Elections 1971-2001 Northwest Territories: Voting in Canada's North 1976-1999 On the Nunavut Campaign Trail 1997-1999 From Louis to Lord: New Brunswick Elections, 1960 to 2003 1948-2003 Campaigning for Canada 1945-1993 Showdown on the Prairies: A History of Saskatchewan Elections 1960-1999 Territorial Battles: Yukon Elections, 1978-2002 1978-2002 Life and Society   Religion in the Classroom 1960-2002 An Inuit Education: Honouring a past, creating a future 1957-2002 Toronto's Infamous 'Boyd Gang' 1949-2002 Eaton's: A Canadian Institution 1869-1999 The 1984 Papal Visit 1984-1987 Canada's New Queen 1951-1964 Africville: Expropriating Nova Scotia's blacks 1973-2002 Quebec Winter Carnival 1955-2001 A Woman's Place: Programming for the Modern Homemaker 1945-1969 Their Christian Duty: Canadian Missionaries Abroad 1966-1998 The St. Lawrence Seaway: Gateway to the world 1951-2001 Close Encounters of the Canadian Kind 1962-2000 Celebrating CBC's As It Happens 1973-1998 Generation X: Lives on Hold 1985-2001 Greenpeace: Always Bearing Witness 1971-2003 Splitting Up: Canadians Get Divorced 1960-1998 Boat People: A Refugee Crisis 1975-1980 Calgary Stampede: Celebrating Canada's Western Heritage 1956-1999 The Confederation Bridge: P.E.I. Connects 1969-2002 Sewing Seeds: Clothing Workers Fight For Better Conditions 1930-1993 The Miracle on Mount Royal: 100 Years of St. Joseph's Oratory 1957-2003 Halloween and Tales of Canadian Ghosts 1957-1994 So long city. Hello suburbs! 1949-2003 June Callwood: Canada's Conscience 1926-2004 Gay and Lesbian Emergence: Out in Canada 1959-1981 Our Voice to the World: 60 Years of Radio Canada International 1945-1996 1960s a GoGo 1960-1969 Expo 67: Montreal Welcomes the World 1962-1985 Marshall McLuhan, the Man and his Message 1960-1980 Pot and Politics: Canada and the Marijuana Debate 1969-2003 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope 1980-1981 The Birth Control Pill 1960-2001 What's Happening to the Family Farm? 1972-2000 Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion 1964-1971 Who Cares For Our Kids?: The Changing Face of Day Care in Canada 1942-2005 Alberta @ 100 1905-2005 The Drive To Survive: Reducing Road Deaths in Canada 1955-2004 James Bay Project and the Cree 1971-2002 A Tale of Perseverance: Chinese Immigration to Canada 1957-2004 Sue Rodriguez and the Right-To-Die Debate 1991-1995 Saskatchewan @ 100 1955-1999 Much Ado About Christmas: Toys, Traditions and Holiday Fun 1936-2002 A Taste of Canada: Our Homegrown Cuisine 1957-2003 Selling Suds: The Beer Industry in Canada 1961-2005 The Eve of the Millennium 1999-2000 Welcome home soldier! Life in postwar Canada 1944-1958 Canada's Wine Renaissance 1811-2003 Butting Out: The Slow Death of Smoking in Canada 1961-1998 Peter Gzowski: Voice of Canada 1966-2002 Monsters, Myths and Mystery: Great Canadian Legends 1955-1992 Terry Fox 25: Reliving the Marathon of Hope 1980 Dr. Henry Morgentaler: Fighting Canada's Abortion Laws 1969-1989 Celebrating Canada Day 1954-2002 The Spirit of Hockey 1961-2004 Their Majesties in Canada: The 1939 Royal Tour 1939 Disasters and Tragedies   Solar Temple: A cult gone wrong 1993-1999 The Early Years of the AIDS Crisis 1981-1987 The Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard 1969-1999 The Halifax Explosion 1917-1998 The Montreal Massacre 1989-1999 Mercury Rising: The Poisoning of Grassy Narrows 1970-2002 The Ice Storm of 1998 1998 Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods 1950-2003 The Saguenay Flood 1996 The Wrath of Hurricane Hazel 1954 Devastating Dry Spells: Drought on the Prairies 1936-2003 The Krever Report: Canada's Tainted Blood Disaster 1984-2002 Springhill Mining Disasters 1956-1992 The Ocean Ranger Disaster 1982-1984 The Sinking and Raising of the Irving Whale 1970-1996 A Lost Heritage: Canada's Residential Schools 1955-2002 The Duplessis Orphans 1992-2004 Davis Inlet: Innu community in crisis 1992-2005 Death on tap: The poisoning of Walkerton 2000-2004 The 'Great Northeastern Blackout' of 1965 1965 The Air India Investigation 1985-2003 Deadly Skies: Canada's Most Destructive Tornadoes 1946-2000 Science and Technology   The Fluoride Debate 1941-1999 Polio: Combating the Crippler 1938-1995 The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream 1951-1997 Candu: The Canadian Nuclear Reactor 1945-1997 Asbestos: Magic mineral or deadly dust? 1942-2002 Fighting Female Infertility 1960-2003 David Suzuki: Scientist, Activist, Broadcaster 1972-2002 Canada Says Hello: The First Century of the Telephone 1945-1975 Canadarm - A Technology Star 1979-2001 Going Underground: Toronto's Subway and Montreal's Metro 1949-2000 The Long Lens of the Law 1984-2004 What's Eating Canada's Trees? 1957-2004 Fighting Forest Fires 1957-2002 Troubled Waters: Pollution in the Great Lakes 1959-1996 Banting, Best, Macleod, Collip: Chasing a Cure for Diabetes 1921-2002 Marc Garneau: Canadian Space Pioneer 1983-2000 Avalanche! 1966-2004 Thalidomide: Bitter Pills, Broken Promises 1961-2002 Computer Invasion: A History of Automation in Canada 1945-1993 Canada Enters the Clone Age 1977-2003 Genetically Modified Food: A Growing Debate 1994-2004 Launching the Digital Age: Canadian Satellites 1957-2000 For Good Measure: Canada Converts to Metric 1963-2002 Canada Tunes In: Radio and TV's Early Years 1927-1991 Clearcutting and Logging: The War of the Woods 1958-2002 Inventing the Internet Age 1970-1998 'Comrade' Bethune: A Controversial Hero 1964-1999 Endangered Species in Canada 1974-2004 Hydroelectricity: The Power of Water 1952-2002 Influenza: Battling The Last Great Virus 1918-2005 Acid Rain: Pollution and Politics 1979-2006 Cancer Research: The Canadian Quest for a Cure 1953-2004 Canada's Earthquakes and Tsunamis 1964-2005 Tuberculosis: Old Disease, Continuing Threat 1943-2001 Sports   Grey Cup: The Fans and the Fanfare 1938-2002 The Crazy Canucks: Canada's skiing heroes 1974-1983 Getting Physical: Canada's Fitness Movement 1968-2000 The Great Wayne Gretzky 1960-1988 Arctic Winter Games 1967-2002 Cross Country Smackdown: Pro Wrestling in Canada 1959-1999 Lacrosse: A History of Canada's Game 1943-2003 Canada-Soviet Hockey Series, 1972 1972 The Summer of '76: Montreal's Olympic Games 1973-1999 Golden Summers: Canada's Gold Medal Athletes 1984-2000 1984-2000 Gold Medal Athletes - 1948-1968 1948-1967 Running Off Track: The Ben Johnson Story 1986-1997 Getting the Games: Canada's Olympic Bids 1966-2003 Going for Dope: Canada and Drugs in Sport 1983-2004 Fair Game: Pioneering Canadian women in sports 1928-2003 Never Made it to the Podium 1908-2002 The Winter of '88: Calgary's Olympic Games 1987-1991 Still Standing: The People's Champion George Chuvalo 1958-2001 Don Cherry: A Coach, A Commentator, A Controversy 1979-2004 The Rise and Fall of Alan Eagleson 1968-1998 50 Years of Olympic Broadcasting 1956-2000 The Voice of Hockey: Foster Hewitt 1942-1996 Ski Queen Nancy Greene 1964-2000 Hockey Flight in Canada 1979-2003 Gilles Villeneuve: Racing at the speed of light 1950-1982 Funding of Amateur Sports 1954-2003 Playing Hardball: Sports Labour Disputes 1981-2005 Extreme Sports: Faster, Riskier, More Outrageous 1965-2004 FORE! Canadians Tee Off 1957-2005 Rick Hansen: Man In Motion 1981-2002 Cold Gold: Canada's Winter Winners 1984 - 2002 1984-2002 Playing to Win: Canada at the Paralympics 1976-2003 Curling: Sweeping the Nation 1947-1998 The Legendary #9: Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1944-2000 Just For Kicks: Soccer in Canada 1961-2005 Major League Baseball Comes to Canada 1838-1977 On The Ball: Canada's Golfing Greats 1949-2004 The Spirit of Hockey 1961-2004 Hockey Gems from the CBC Archives 1951-2005 Days to Remember   A weekday in 1938 1938 A weekend in 1939 1939 A Friday in 1942 1942 A weekend in 1948 1948 A Monday in 1959 1959 A Monday in 1965 1965 A Saturday in 1961 1961-1962 A Sunday in 1967 1967-1067 New Year's Day, 1972 1972 Monday, October 17, 1977 1977 Sunday, June 4, 1989 1989 Wednesday, December 12, 1984 1984 Friday, October 25, 1996 1996 Eve of the Millennium 1999