Author: zootpic2024
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Shattered Ground
Is fracking that bad? Or is it truly an unexpected gift of energy, jobs and economic boost? Shattered Ground travels from the northern gas fields to the rancorous political battles and into the hot beds of shale gas activity looking at the people who benefit, and those who do not. New scientific data is only…
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Big Business, Big Union, Small Town
The city fought hard to secure a big store that draws in people from the surrounding towns – they have a Wal-Mart. But the community and the Wal-Mart workers now find themselves the focus of a battle between two titans. Big Business, Big Union, Small Town looks at what the local Wal-Mart really means in…
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The Path to Shaolin
The Shaolin Temple – the birthplace of Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism – has a 1400 year history, marrying the peaceful and compassionate nature of Buddhism with one of the most effective fighting forms in human history. It has always been an enigma. Canadian Tim Mrazek has studied for years under 31st generation Shaolin lay…
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Black Tuesday
On September 29, 1931, between 300 and 400 miners and their wives from the Bienfait area coal mines drove to Estevan, Saskatchewan, to march in protest of their working and living conditions and the refusal of management to acknowledge their newly formed union. The peaceful protest and show of solidarity by the miners escalated into…
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Weekend Wonder
It’s not crazy, and it’s not impossible It’s a Weekend Wonder. The age of conspicuous consumption is over. People have less money, less time, and are conscious of their environmental footprint. Smaller is better, green is the new black, and leading the revolution is Weekend Wonder. Each Weekend Wonder is a series of three episodes where a group…
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Two Gun Cohen
A truant cockney Jew, Morris Cohen was sent to Saskatchewan Canada, He learned to gamble and shoot, and began a lifelong friendship with the Chinese people. A man looking for somewhere to belong, he finally found a great man to follow, the founder of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Morris Cohen was known as a…
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Victims
Victims is the story of David, a gambler and womanizer, Julia, a cheating wife, and Harold, her long-suffering, rich husband. Harold’s discovery of the affair leads the three into an interaction of greed, lust and revenge, finishing in murder. But who will be the victim? Victims is a half hour drama shot on 16MM through…
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Tommy Douglas in his Own Words
Tommy Douglas in his Own Words provides a new insight into one of the most dynamic politicians, orators and visionaries in modern history. Tommy Douglas was the man who introduced Medicare to North America, four times premier, a man who was pivotal in creating Canada’s third political party, and a humanitarian who worked for the…