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Fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner accompanies his photographer father to France, where he is working on a coffee-table book.

As World War II escalates, dilemmas face adopted siblings Christine and Henry Delaney.

It's been fourteen years since rock singer Adelia Winters escaped the small town of Cherry Lake.

Thirty-year-old engineer Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad-school thesis is done.

Summer 1755, Acadia. Amľie Belliveau lives with her family in Grande Pr,̌ Nova Scotia.

Grania is deaf, a victim of scarlet fever at age five in early 1900s Canada. After learning sign language and speech she meets and marries Jim, with whom she develops a special vocabulary.

1759. The North American colonies of Britain and France are pulled into war, and the loyalties of many New York merchants, who have secretly been trading with the French for years, are divided.

For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women.

Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with.

Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years.

On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days.

Despite it's characterization in the rest of the world as a land of bush and blizzards, Canada is a country of geographical and climatic variations.

The gruesome saga of the Black Donnellys has been heavily mythologized. A thick layer of rumour, legend, and hearsay has built up around the facts of the case.

Since the early days of exploration, adventurous women have felt the pull of the mountains.

Throughout history some people have pushed the limit of what is acceptable to society. Those featured here lived in an era when smuggling was rife, liquor was plentiful, and murder was rampant.