Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all.

The owner of an after-hours bar dreams of opening a legitimate establishment.

A woman takes in a lodger to help with the debts of her funeral business.

Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.

An old-time crook is unwittingly united with his long-lost son and 6-year-old granddaughter.

An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.

A troubled teen is lost in the wilderness for a year.