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  • History Worth Watching

    February 2012

    Join our celebration of Black History month with documentaries, dramas, current affairs, kids programming and special features throughout February.

  • Secret Mediterranean

    Friday at 7:00 p.m.

    A Mediterranean journey reveals the unexpected, the forgotten, the extraordinary and the bizarre.

  • Unlikely Tough Guy

    Friday at 10:00 p.m.

    Former NHL enforcer and author of a new memoir, "Georges Laraque," talks about facing racism and gives an insider’s take on fighting in hockey.

  • Great Migrations

    Saturday at 7:00 p.m.

    Experience the death-defying dramas that play out every day across the land, sea and sky as millions of creatures move because their lives depend on it.

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Blogs that make you think

The Inside Agenda Blog

Robert Nixon: Fifty Years Later

Posted on January 30 by Steve Paikin

If there's a "first family" in Ontario politics, it has to be the Nixons of Brant County. Harry Nixon was the longest-serving member of the Ontario Legislature ever (42 years), and was premier briefly in 1943. Robert Nixon, his son, was elected 50 years ago this month, winning the Brant constituency after his father died. And Robert's daughter Jane Stewart was the family's third generation in public life, having served as a Liberal MP in the cabinet of Jean Chretien.

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Saturday Night at the Movies Blog

Saturday Features: The Best of Norman Jewison

Posted on February 3 by Thom Ernst

Of course by calling this blog 'The Best of Norman Jewison', we're referring to what SNAM thinks of as his best. Your ideas might be different, preferring "Jesus Christ Superstar," "A Soldier's Story," "Fiddler On the Roof" (okay, we might give you that one) or "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming." Point is there's a lot to choose from with Jewision, and the two were showing this weekend - "In the Heat of the Night" & "Moonstruck" - have passed the test of time.

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TVOParents Blog

Who Are Your Heroes in the Black Community?

Posted on February 2 by Cheryl Jackson

It's Black History Month and we want to hear your stories. Who is a hero to you? Tell us and you could win a prize.

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