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- Uploaded on Apr 24, 2014 This bilingual show was hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Sonia Benezra. Its focus was the flag and what it means to us all. Celine Dion, David Foster, Ofra Harnoy, Marie Josee Theriot, Ashley MacIsaac, Marie Denise Pelletier, George Fox, Bass is Base, Slim Williams and Liberty Silver entertained the appreciative Canadian Olympic Team. The show was broadcast in prime time on CBC national TV an hour before Opening Ceremonies at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
- Karl Steiner was the only living Canadian expert on 12-tone music. A music student in Vienna, the war brought his studies to an abrupt end when teachers in his school turned him over to the Nazis. Steiner escaped death in Auschwitz because of his talent as a musician. Fleeing first to Shanghai and then to Montreal, Canada, he ended up at McGill University teaching at the Music Department. There he started an enclave of Atonal music students on their path to Atonal discord.
- On September 15, 2004, the Canadian Paralympic athletes gathered for a team pep rally in Athens on the evening prior to Opening Ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. This one-hour performance documentary brought together four artists from across Canada to perform at this rally: Jesse Ross, a blind Paralympian jazz singer, Denis Harting, a blind pop singer, Chin Injeti, a pop singer who is a Juno award-winner vocalist struck by polio at a young age, and Adrian Anantawan, a scholarship award-winning violinist who was studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. This documentary special chronicles their journey to Athens, the trials and tribulations of performance and their aspirations for others to follow.
- This is the second season of a series on immigrant women in Canada. The stories are about the barriers these women faced and their determination to overcome those barriers. There is also a 3-minute tribute at the end of each show to a female immigrant who died in Canada and whose contributions to this country were little known.
- Canadian Olympian Toller Cranston changed the world of figure skating when he burst out of the rigid movements of male skaters with his flamboyant gestures and grace. But skating barriers were not the only lines he would cross. InTollerance aptly titled his life-journey, his conquests and the price he paid to follow his heart, his art and his self proclaimed destiny.
- In 2008 a demonstration concert event was held in Beijing in between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Well known able bodied performers and those living with physical impairments took to the stage to demonstrate the excellence which exists in all cultures. This event, the Samsung Marriage of Excellence concert series proved to be an emotional journey of revelation. The Quest for Excellence documentary follows photographer Kevin Connolly as he travels around the world interviewing artists as they prepare for this historic event.
- This episode of "Profiles" focuses on a young girl of outstanding talent, Justine Blainey, and her successful tryout for an all-male hockey team. Her ejection from the team led to a court battle that waged on for almost four years, but in the end Blainey got her wish.
- This episode of "Profiles" focuses on Vicki Keith, "an ordinary person who has accomplished extraordinary things". Swimming across all five Great Lakes in one summer, she has set 17 world records on three continents. She went on to coach the Flames, the Variety Village swim team.