John Evans

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Patricia Rozema

Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon

Awkward, shy and delightfully funny, Polly Vandersma is an "organizationally impaired" temporary assistant who finally gets her first permanent job at the age of 31. While she works for the curator of an art gallery, Polly narrates her own story, sharing the comical and bittersweet pretensions of the art world. At the same time, she reveals a special part of her own private world, taking the viewer to enchanted places in this quiet assault on the notion of authority everywhere.

Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield

Richard Ciupka

Frank Fontaine, Susan Glover

A Montreal neurosurgeon makes ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders.

Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail

Holly Dale

Diane D'Aquila, Colin Fox

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrell

Thomas Butler, Harley Crowchild

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.