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Das Leben der Detektivin Jessica King verläuft nicht gerade reibungslos. Als sie Leiterin der Major Crime Task Force wird, will sie unbedingt beweisen, dass sie der beste Polizist der Stadt ist.

Griffin Conner returns home after dropping out of medical school. He gets a job as an orderly at the hospital where his father is the chief of staff and his sisters are a nurse and surgeon.

Olivia Novak returns with a new generation of lawyers in "Street Legal," a character-driven legal drama that follows the professional and personal lives of ambitious law partners at a start-up Toronto law firm.

Alice De Raey ist eine frischgebackene Anwältin, die sich der chaotischen Welt der Strafjustiz in Toronto anschließt. Sie ist den Schattenseiten des Lebens ausgesetzt, den Hinterzimmer-Deals, die das System zum Funktionieren bringen.

A wealthy young Canadian department store heiress tries her best to help out a deeply troubled and jealous childhood friend, with disastrous results that shock the whole country.

Despite having dreams of being a world record breaststroker since he was a child, Canadian Victor Davis came out of virtual obscurity to win the silver medal in the 100 meter breaststroke and shattering the long standing world record on his way to the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1982 World Swimming Championships. There, Victor and his coach, Cliff Barry, predict Victor will break world records en route to gold medals in these two races at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Victor's public bravado and hot temperedness, both extensions of his hyperactivity, irk his competitors, exasperate Cliff and sometimes place him at odds with the public and the media, both Canadian and international. From 1982, Victor has some spectacular swimming heartaches, some equally as spectacular swimming moments, and some potentially career-ending moments related to medical and legal issues all leading up to and at the 1984 Olympic Games. Through it all, he is supported by Cliff, his equally as famous national swim teammate Alex Baumann, his swim club teammates, his family, and his girlfriend Donna Clavel. Then, following his retirement from competitive swimming, on the fateful evening of November 11, 1989 after leaving a Montréal nightclub with Donna,...

Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.

The political manoeuvrings in the ten or so years in the legislature of the Province of Canada, comprised of the former Upper Canada and Lower Canada, leading up to the confederation of British North American colonies into one country called Canada in 1867, are presented. The story focuses primarily on three politicians: John A. Macdonald who during that time would assume the leadership of the Conservative Party, his Québec leader George-Étienne Cartier, and George Brown, who is leader of the Liberal Party during much of this time and who is owner of the Globe newspaper in Toronto. Macdonald and Brown not only oppose each other politically - doing whatever needed to gain control over the other - but also refuse to deal with the other solely because of who the other is as a person. Beyond their battles, they also have to contend with the continuing problems of how to deal with the English/French divide in the Upper Canada/Lower Canada union, with the provincial capital moving between Toronto and Québec City every few years to appease both sides. Their personal lives - which for Macdonald includes caring for a young son and an ailing wife within his busy political schedule, and which for Brown would eventually include marriage to a headstrong Scotswoman named Anne Nelson - and the civil war brewing in the United States, the result which could be forcible annexation of Canada into the United States, would lead to Macdonald and Brown needing to decide if they could overcome their long held differences to work together for the greater good of Canada.

The Niagara Motel and the attached Riverside Grill, located in Niagara Falls, are owned and operated by Serbian father and daughter, the always angry Boris and hard working Sophie. Through the motel and/or restaurant comes a series of disparate but equally struggling people: middle aged couple Henry and Lil, formerly middle class but who are trying to cope with the loss of employment and its associated money; young couple R.J. and Denise, who are trying to clean up (with varying degrees of success) so that they can reclaim their daughter from foster care; and the restaurant's new waitress, young widowed French-Canadian Lori, who is escaping a complicated situation in her hometown and who is preyed upon by two locals, straight-laced Dave and less than straight-laced Michael. The person who sees everything that is going on is the motel's caretaker Phillie, a Scot who stayed in Niagara Falls following a personal tragedy. To escape memory of that tragedy, Phillie is in a constant state of inebriation. Each person has to decide how far they will go to get what they want in life.

After avoiding speaking at all cost for over two decades, Joze Piranian, who has a severe stutter, decides to confront his fears and make peace with the past, by holding the conversations he never dared to have before.

Two homicide detectives investigate the murder of a popular Jamaican woman, who seems to have lived in two separate worlds.

It's Alice's first day on the job and her boss is nowhere to be seen. She's in over her head with name misspellings, family battles and public mischief. With a little advice from defence lawyer Elliot Sacks and duty counsel Zona Robinson, Alice manages to squeak through the day.

Alice defends a girl just out of high school on drug-trafficking charges. Saxe's client is charged with leaving his business partner in an embarrassing situation. James goes camping.

Alice's cases include a potentially abusive father and a woman who struck her mother-in-law. Sacks defends a man accused of beating up a poet.

Alice's first trip into Mental Health Court teaches her how hard it is for the justice system to help the mentally ill. Elliot tries to help a one-legged Jamaican man arrested for attacking the neighbourhood girls who routinely taunt him.

Elliot deals with a spoiled client and his flaky girlfriend, while Alice struggles to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict and a suspected terrorist.

Judge Malone wages war against the City of Toronto and Alice has doubts about her clients innocence.

Alice tries to convince a couple to make a sacrifice for the sake of their family. Elliot finds himself defending a secretary who hogties her boss to fake a robbery.

Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his sick father. Alice also represents a 65-year old crack addict who is not interested in being rehabilitated. Elliot uses all of his creativity to defend a high profile client.

Alice balances two clients, Elliot wars with the Crown's rigid approach to sexual assault cases, Anthony defends a woman charged with assaulting her lesbian lover and new Duty Counsel Joe Pretak finds himself grappling with four Asian co-accused.

Alice deals with a case involving racism while also battling a media circus surrounding a child abduction case. Meanwhile, James and Nancy are confounded by the court's rigid approach to domestic abuse cases.

Joe tries to get a career criminal one last chance. Homeless intellectual Mr. Jackson appears before the colourful Judge Malcolm Fraser. Elliot stretches his already-battered legal objectivity to the limit.