Not many of us will reach 100 years old, so reporter Jane Sponagle set out to learn as much as she could from a rug-hooking, perm-rocking great grandmother in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.

Not only was Yassir El-Tahan the last person to see a missing man, he actually took him deeper into the woods where he disappeared. The chance encounter El-Tahan had with Jonathan Hannaford has stayed with him for almost a decade.

When Wayne Hatcher dies, he won't be going in a casket. And he doesn't want you to go in one either. In this encore presentation of a documentary by Caroline Hillier, Wayne Hatcher, owner of Sunrise Interfaith Cemetery in Halifax, explains why he's pushing for more access to green burials in Atlantic Canada.

After receiving a handwritten threat from the Taliban, an interpreter who helped the Canadian military escaped from Afghanistan the day before the country fell. With the help of his former military adviser, he ends up in St. John's. A documentary by Caroline Hillier that first aired in 2021.

Don Greening took care of his wife when she was experiencing memory loss, and when his daughter received the same diagnosis, he stepped into the role as caregiver once again. A documentary by the CBC's Gavin Simms that originally aired in November of 2015.

How a shared love of music helped Alla Melnychuk, a Ukrainian refugee, settle and thrive in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. An award winning documentary by Caroline Hillier that originally aired in November 2023.

In this award winning documentary, Erin Moore uses her grandfather's war letters to tell the untold story of the nearly 2000 Canadians who went to Vietnam to observe and safeguard peace accords. Erin’s grandfather, Lieutenant Commander Douglas Babineau of Nova Scotia, was one of them.

If you’ve ever been to Newfoundland, you know it’s a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don’t know where you’re going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. But this isn’t the end of the story. Because it turns out these men are not alone. A series of other close calls and near misses have begun to emerge, and not only at Come by Chance hospital. Come By Chance is a story about what it means to belong in a family — and how a twist of fate can upend the life you thought you knew.

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