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- Maggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.
- Acting on impulse, CLAIRE DENNISON, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
- A successful ad agency woman finds herself in a dangerous power struggle, back-dropped by murder, when she begins to uncover the true identity of the two men she is dating.
- After a truck accident causes their release, a small rural town is faced with a swarm of killer bees.
- Eighteen year old Ariel is in love with her caring father, who lives with her in the upper middle class part of Vancouver. When he starts dating again, she becomes violently jealous, fails to seduce him, and turns to female boxing.
- A group of friends are forced to fight to the death in order to gain their freedom.
- Two cops, a rookie and his partner, a veteran, are increasingly troubled by wild and illegal behavior of some of their colleagues. At first they try to ignore it, but it soon proves to be impossible to ignore.
- After an incident occurs at a top-secret bio-research lab in remote Alaska, a team of skilled military operatives are sent to investigate whether this was an accident, an act of terror or something else.
- A female prison inmate is recruited into a special fire fighting programme, only to find her expertise is needed sooner than expected
- A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people.
- A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York.
- Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. He's working hard at a business that may go under. Sarah and Shane are architects; he can't handle her success at a downtown firm. Leslie is a librarian, sour and prickly; her mate, Peter, is a college teacher whose head is turned by a student. Can any of these couples sort things out and stay together? Should they?
- A young journalist is assigned to work with a more experienced writer on a scandal paper. On an assignment to write about a mental hospital patient who supposedly can predict people's deaths, the younger reporter suddenly experiences a recurrence of lost feelings she had from a near-death experience years previous in an air crash.
- A former policeman gets the opportunity to travel back in time to catch his father's murderer and in so doing runs into his younger self.
- Two med students on a road trip are falsely accused of murder by a corrupt local Sheriff, setting off a wild chase and a deadly comedy of errors. As they struggle to survive, every move the students make sends them deeper into trouble.
- Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.
- It's Ginger Shapiro's wedding day. It's going to be perfect even though she's eight-months pregnant, been robbed, kidnapped and thinks her fiancé Henry is dead - he's not - and then there's her grandmother's curse! It's a race to the altar in this escalating comedy of errors where Ginger and Henry might just stand a chance of living happily ever after.
- Over a year after bit actress Liz Woodward leaves him at the altar, comedy writer Gene Maxwell is still having trouble dealing with the situation and his life. Writing "Fear Knot", a novel about letting go of one's fears to be able to tie the knot, which he obviously wrote for Liz but which she has yet to read, probably didn't help. Unexpectedly, Liz, who he has not seen since that day, returns with an unusual request: help her father, Malcolm Woodward, move from his dingy basement suite into an apartment, as she has a movie assignment in Prague during when he has to move. After initially feeling the request unreasonable considering the circumstances, Gene agrees on what he considers compassionate grounds for Malcolm. Through it all, Gene has to deal with: what he thinks Liz's return means, which he, deep in his heart, hopes is a reconciliation; the advice of his overbearing parents, George and Gisha, and of his best friend, dance instructor Herbert; and cantankerous ex-pat Brit Malcolm himself, who initially does not want Gene around, but who ends up relying and confiding in the one person who is there for him during his own time of need, especially as he deals with a secret he does not want Liz of all people to know.
- Marine Life revolves around the chaotic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother.
- Two estranged stepbrothers travel to their father's funeral.
- Five years in, bank colleagues Nadine Ship and Jonathan Evans hit a road block in their personal relationship. Nadine wants their relationship to move to the next level, whereas Jonathan is happy keeping things the way they are. Nadine feels re-energized when a new bank customer starts flirting with her. But things take a more significant turn in Nadine and Jonathan's life when a masked robber comes into the bank and following the heist, takes Nadine hostage. As her assailant takes Nadine along on his personal mission, Jonathan follows a hunch of his own on the identity of the robber in an effort to try and win back Nadine, who was slowly drifting away from him.
- Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an anchor - he's possessive, undependable and even a heroin addict.
- When James hears that his dad is close to dying, he travels home to visit and hopefully reconcile with his affectionless father. His single-minded quest to heal his emotional wounds blinds James to his own son's needs.
- The boiler in the building is on the fritz which is causing a heatwave throughout the complex. The heat is also turning up on Wayne's lies. He can no longer tell if what's coming out of his mouth is the truth or a lie. It isn't until Dawn, his wife, serves him divorce papers that Wayne thinks perhaps he should stop his lying. Dawn left Wayne because of his lies, and has been working in the oil patch in Fort McMurray. Her company is sending her all expenses paid to Saudi Arabia to work and she feels this as good a time as any to break ties with Wayne. Wayne still loves Dawn and decides to go to a Liars Anonymous meeting in hopes of winning Dawn back. Initially, he lies while at the meeting, but finally turns his whole life into one big truth, which he ends up doing more for himself than to win Dawn back. Despite a few bumps in the road, including the death of his plants since they thrived on the joyousness of his lies and a beating by a Colin James wannabe, Wayne does win Dawn back with his transformation, although she too admits the truth that she really is scared about the move to Saudi Arabia. However, Hal convinces Wayne that Dawn really needs to get on with her life in Saudi Arabia without him. She ultimately comes to the realization that she no longer loves Wayne but was only staying because she was scared. Meanwhile, Bobby continues his affair with Sasha, which is witnessed by Yuri and Hal's skunk, with which Bobby has a close encounter of the bad kind.
- Yuri's older alcoholic brother Val stops by. Although Yuri tries to persuade him to leave and stay somewhere else, Val manages to worm his way in. Yuri has mixed feelings about Val: he loves his older brother, knows he's trouble but feels somewhat responsible for him as Val took care of Yuri when they were little kids. Their mother was taken away when Yuri was four years old, right after World War II, because of her association with Mussolini. Val is currently selling illegal fireworks to neighborhood kids to make ends meet. A motherless for the time being and head-braceless Georgia becomes the center of attention for both Yuri and Val. Finally exasperated with Val's antics and drunkenness including Val's admission to Yuri about what really happened to their mother, Yuri turns him into the cops who came looking for Val earlier on. Yuri thinks that in doing so, he is helping his brother. However the cops aren't looking for Val for the reason Yuri thought, but he ended up helping his brother more than he realized when he called Constable Birnham. It's Georgia who ends up bringing the brothers together, at least for the time being.
- Hal's life is getting even slower as his unemployment insurance has run out and he has nothing to do and no money on which to live. Nick is frustrated with Hal being such a slacker. This coincides with Nick meeting a new friend in the building by the name of Wayne Ross. Hal openly dislikes Wayne, partly out of jealousy. Hal confides in Alicia who thinks perhaps Nick is going through a crisis of some sort in his life, but also thinks that his and Nick's issues are a manifestation of Hal's slacker attitude. As such, Hal decides to turn his life around. It ends up not being as easy as he thought. But Nick eventually finding out that Wayne isn't everything he professes to be and Hal's close encounter with the apartment skunk brings Hal and Nick's life full circle, but better as Hal decides to go back to school to get certified in urban wildlife management. Meanwhile, Stu has hired a new building manager, Elvis Michalowsk, who becomes the bane of Yuri's existence.
- After Sault has an anxiety attack at work, she confesses to Geoff, her confidante, that she hates her life. She needs a man in her life and decides once again to pursue - stalks, really - Nick, despite not knowing if he really is the one for her. She uses the same techniques that Geoff originally used to pursue Stanley. Sault and Nick do reconnect - for Sault, it may be the start of something nice, but for Nick, Sault is just, as Hal coins, "the just for sex girl". When Sault finds out this is how Nick thinks of her, she literally chases him down. They both have a turbulent admission that they perhaps should break up, but not before one last sexual go at it in the park. But things look up for Sault when she and her job, the cause of much stress in her life, mutually part company.
- When Andrew Colton moves into the building, Geoff and Stanley's gaydar immediately goes off. Even Yuri is confused about his own sexuality when he admires Andrew's butt before he realizes that the butt belongs to a man. When Andrew mentions his partner "Chris" to Geoff, Geoff assumes that Chris is a man. However much to Geoff's surprise and somewhat dismay, Chris ends up being a woman. Because of Geoff's interest in Andrew, Stanley throws out one coy gay reference after another to Andrew. Geoff, on the other hand, is angry and confused about what he sees as Andrew's denial of who he is as a person, and during a moment of drunkenness and out of lust, Geoff tries to kiss Andrew. Andrew is taken aback and angry by Geoff's move. Geoff's attempted kiss coincides with continuing problems between himself and Stanley, primarily surrounding the imbalance in their relationship around money and its associated power. Although Geoff tries to bury the hatchet between himself and Andrew, Andrew is still angry. Andrew neither confirms or denies his sexual orientation, but just states that having a family has been his priority in life for as long as he can remember.
- Bobbi, always tired - one of the classic signs of depression - is concerned that Robbie looks jaundiced. She has to deal with him on her own since Bobby is away on another business trip, this time to Portland, where, unbeknownst to Bobbi, he is continuing his affair with co-worker, Sasha. When Bobbi calls Bobby for advice, he convinces her to take Robbie to the doctor, but he also wants her to go see a doctor herself regarding her depression, the latter which she refuses. But Dr. Singh, Robbie's doctor, has two diagnoses: Robbie is fine, but Bobbi is depressed and she prescribes a mild antidepressant to a pill-phobic Bobbi, who promptly pops one anyway when the stress of life becomes too much. When Bobbi calls Bobby in the middle of the night, Sasha answers the phone. Although Bobby calls back with a somewhat plausible explanation, Bobbi, distraught since she knows Bobby is lying, turns to Rob, the refrigerator repairman, for advice, support and comfort not only about Bobby's infidelity but about her self-assessment as being a bad mother. Rob, in turn, offers an unusually sympathetic ear. In the morning, Bobbi realizes that Rob's advice was her own dream induced thoughts. She finally knows what she has to do and throws Bobby out. Meanwhile, the identity of Robbie's biological father is implied by his Texas shaped birthmark. And Robson Arms gets a new owner.
- Andrew wants to have a baby, and wants to make the process as scientific as possible for conception. This direction is different than what he and Chris had previously discussed, which was to have a baby whenever it naturally happened. Amongst their baby talk, Andrew tells Chris about the fact that Geoff tried to kiss him. Initially, rather than be upset, Chris is humoured and flattered for Andrew. However, when more and more indirect signs of gay men being attracted to Andrew surface, including warnings from Chris' overbearing mother Dianne, Chris begins to think that perhaps her nonchalant attitude toward Geoff's kiss is misplaced and that Andrew's want for a baby but otherwise recent standoffishness is really a sign that Andrew is gay. She decides first to confront Geoff, but only finds Stanley, who provides a little insight into the gay male psyche in relationship to Chris and Andrew's marriage. Despite Stanley's assurances to Chris, Andrew, upon probing by Chris, admits to her that he does sometimes think about men sexually, but denies being gay since he has never acted on those thoughts. Confused, Chris turns to her mother Dianne for more advice, who tells Chris that she should have the baby as security to hang on to Andrew. Chris ultimately decides and tells Andrew that now is not the time to have a baby. Although Andrew says that she alone without a baby is enough to fulfill his life, Chris still has doubts about his true feelings.
- Both Yuri and Toni are facing new nemeses. Yuri's is contractor and television personality Jim Caruk, who Elvis has hired to fix up the building since Stu has a prospective buyer. In essence, Jim is doing Yuri's job. Yuri realizes that his livelihood at Robson Arms is in jeopardy, especially when Elvis gives Jim a set of master keys to the building. Toni faces two nemeses: menopause and Bao's pretty young third cousin Kitty Chong, just arrived from Kowloon, Hong Kong. Initially seemingly sweet, innocent and naive, Kitty tells a heartbreaking story of a recently killed loving fiancé. She is adored by all, especially the men of the building, with whom Kitty uses her sexuality to get whatever she wants. This includes some sexual favours for Elvis, who is threatening to triple the store's rent once the lease expires. Grandma, who has never trusted the Chong side of the family, is the first to see through Kitty's charade. Toni eventually sees the real manipulative side of Kitty, who wants to steal everything that Toni has. Based on advice from Yuri, who will resort to down and dirty tactics to save his job, Toni gets the upper hand on Kitty when Toni discovers Kitty's real background, which includes a still living fiancé from whom Kitty embezzled money; and Kitty's ultimate goal of getting Bao and Toni to sign her immigration documents to move to Canada. Ultimately, Kitty is sent packing back to Kowloon, but not before she gets Elvis to renew the store's lease at the same rate.
- It was a dark and stormy night, which brings with it dark and stormy Georgia or "Georgie", Carol's estranged head-brace wearing teen-aged daughter, on Carol's doorstep. Although Carol has been fairly open about her life with her neighbors, Georgie exposes more of that life: that Carol just returned from India where she spent eighteen months in an ashram trying to find herself, this following the divorce from Georgie's father Manny. Georgie, wanting to stay with her Mom for a few weeks, decides to wreak havoc at Robson Arms as material for her on-line videos: she puts red dye in the washing machines, lets Hal's skunk loose in the building and invites Brent the bum over for dinner. Carol loves her daughter but also finds her exasperating. The last straw for Carol is when Georgie plans to film her own deflowering. This act reveals the reason for Georgie's bad behavior: she feels she is the reason for all her parent's problems and feels she was an accident in their lives. Carol endures an accident of her own after she finally convinces Georgie that she really is the best thing in her life and is proud to be her mother.
- It's six weeks away until Bobbi and Bobby have their baby, and there is some underlying and unspoken tension between the two. Bobbi is putting increasing pressure on the household by wanting everything to be perfect - she wants everything to be new despite the cost and is paranoid about everything that may negatively affect the pregnancy. This is proving to be a little too much pressure for Bobby, who still has doubts that the baby is his. He manifests his stress by starting to flirt with co-worker Sasha, a self-professed slut; she reciprocates the flirting. As Bobby's stress increases, the flirting progresses to "second base". Finally Bobby confronts Bobbi with his feelings. This statement leads to a clearing of the air between the two, including their hopes, fears and Bobby's admission of his dalliance with Sasha. However, that still doesn't stop Bobby from being literally caught with his pants down just as Bobbi's water breaks. Meanwhile, Yuri is on the hunt for a skunk tenants have told him has been stalking the building.
- Much is happening at Robson Arms in the aftermath of the earthquake. Janice and Tom have moved in together and out of the building. Stu, managing the building following the death of his cousins Bea and Pauline, is trying to sell, and in turn is working Yuri to the bone trying to repair all the earthquake damage. And ex-Toronto Maple Leaf, Caldo Vasco, is learning to maneuver in the building in his wheelchair. A recent drunk driver accident has turned him into a paraplegic. Caldo and Yuri are at each other's throats, Caldo because he has never liked the way Yuri has treated him (which is no different than the way Yuri's treated everyone else in the building), and Yuri because he is taking all the flak for Caldo's lascivious acts. Caldo has been milking his new wheelchair-bound status for all it's worth, and no one except Yuri knows that Caldo was the drunk driver causing the accident, which resulted in a dog being run over and killed. Despite making a deal with Caldo, Yuri eventually spills the beans to the rest of the tenants about Caldo's accident. Their feud comes to a head when they are caught fighting in front of a television news crew, the crew at Robson Arms solely as a marketing ploy for Stu to sell the building. Caldo and Yuri come to a new understanding of each other after their physical encounter and bond against a common foe.
- Sault has fallen on hard times since she lost her job. While she waits to hear about money for a proposal she submitted for a business venture, she is forced to take a temp job at Strategic Consolidated to make ends meet, despite that it is a mindless job for a mindless company. There she meets Perry Sound, a graphic novelist who is working at Strategic Consolidated just to earn a living. In many respects, he is a male version of Sault: cynical, brash, and someone who takes the easy way in life. As an example, he eats tuna and coffee sandwiches for lunch to give himself bad breath so that people at the office won't talk to and therefore bother him. Sault and Perry are sympatico in almost every respect, and they quickly end up as a twosome in their personal lives. She even feels comfortable enough to tell him about her alopecia, which he thinks is sexy. When she finds out that her proposal was rejected, Perry talks her into working permanently at the mindless factory called Strategic Consolidated. Geoff doesn't like the fact that in doing so, Sault would give up on her work dreams. Even Stanley, who still doesn't like Sault, thinks she is selling out. Eventually, Sault thinks that another "her" in the form of Perry is too much of a good thing, and decides that she really does need some work, and as a result personal happiness in her life and leaves Perry and Consolidated. Perhaps she can find the Mary Tyler Moore "Mary Richards" brand of happiness.
- After Carlisle passes away alone in his apartment and isn't discovered until after a week, loner geek Fred decides that he should get out more before he befalls the same fate as Carlisle. He tries speed dating, but to no avail. But then he attaches himself emotionally to Carol Goldstein, a self-professed forty-five year old constantly horny woman who has moved into Carlisle's suite. Carol wants to get to know her neighbours, but soon finds out that perhaps her initial friendliness with all the tenants was not a good idea as Fred will not take her subtle hints to leave her alone. Finally she tells him directly to get lost as he and she really aren't even compatible as friends. This perhaps was the impetus he needed to meet the person best suited to him. He meets Alicia, who was probably Carlisle's closest friend in the building and who had been leaving memorials for Carlisle at Carol's apartment door. Computer assistance for Alicia and a common love for the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) is the start of Fred's first true friendship in the building.
- A pair of homo ergaster take the first step up the food chain by learning to scavenge meat using a stone hand ax. A million years later a hunt of a herd of irish elk by a tribe of home erectus goes terribly wrong when the torches used to drive the herd fail to stay lit. A tribe of Neandthals makes a good though dangerous living hunting bison until the cooling climate reduces the available game.