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Focuses on Canadian respirologist Nancy Morrison. Judicial decision that she did not have to stand trial for the first-degree murder of Paul Mills, a terminally ill cancer patient; How she has become the unwilling focus of a national debate over euthanasia; Background on Morrison's medical treatment of Mills; Specifics on the inquiry; Questions as to the morality of mercy killing.

Focuses on the issue of censorship in Canada. Specifics on two landmark cases, one involving the Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver, and the other, the paintings of Toronto artist Eli Langer; How debate arouses deep and divisive passions on both sides; Ironies that exist in the battle. INSETS: Exit to erotica (the film `Exit to Eden'), by Dale Eisler;Speaking out (prominent Canadians on censorship and pornography).

Reports the arrest of two Albertans in Belgrade, Serbia on charges of terrorism, possession of weapons and explosives, and resisting arrest. Background on entrepreneur Shaun Going, his construction company Meridian Resources, and his nephew Liam Hall; Expectation that their fate is linked to that of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the general election on September 24, 2000.

Reports that a Northwest Territories Supreme Court jury found Roger Warren guilty of nine counts of second-degree murder which resulted from his planting of a bomb at the Giant gold mine. Court's recommendation of a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 20 years; Unprecedented length of the trial; Details of the case; Effect of the bitter labor dispute at the Giant mine on the town of Yellowknife.

Presents a detailed account of how Canadian soldiers tortured and killed Shidane Abukar Arone, a Somali teenager, near Belet Huen in Somalia on March 16, 1993. It is pieced together as a result of the four weeks of testimony at the court marital of Pte. Elvin Kyle Brown, who was found guilty of manslaughter and torture in Arone's death. INSET: The shattered dream of Kyle Brown, by Tom Fennell & Penny....

Examines the trial of Canadian physician Abraham Cooper who is accused of murdering fellow doctor Doug Snider. How Cooper's defense lawyer is claiming that Snider is actually still alive and that Snider actually disappeared to frame Cooper for the murder; Details on the long-running battle between the two physicians from Edmonton, Alberta.

Focuses on the conviction of Wiebo Ludwig, patriarch of the Trickle Creek Christian commune in Hythe, Alberta, on charges of criminal mischief and conspiracy related to his vandalism and bombing campaign against the oil and gas industry in the province. Role of commune member Richard Boonstra in the bombings; Use of former friend Robert Wraight as a police informant; Details of Ludwig's motives; Outlook for sentencing.

Discusses the labor dispute between the 'Calgary Herald' newspaper in Calgary, Alberta, and its employees. How the strike leaders want newsroom employees to be certified; How former publisher Ken King revamped the writing of news copy that seemed to lean toward conservative stories offering only one view; Other changes employees are disputing.

Discusses the 1999 fraud trial of Senator Eric Berntson of Saskatchewan. The charges that have been filed against Berntson; Other high-ranking political officials in Saskatchewan who have been charged with fraud; When the fraud investigations began; Berntson's role in Saskatchewan politics, which began in the mid-1970s; Outlook for the trial; How Berntson has reacted to the trial.

Reports on how the Supreme Court of Canada began hearing a case in late October 1998, which has been subject to a gag order that prohibits publication of anything apart from the fact that it deals with expert opinion and whether such opinions are subject to certain confidentiality rules. Details of a case involving Noah Augustine who is accused of murdering Bruce Barnaby; How courts on the United States handle gag orders.

Focuses on Canadian lawyer Eddie Greenspan and his handling of the defense of former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan in 1997. Regan's status of having been charged with 17 sex-related charges; How the news media reported on the preliminary hearing, which ended in January 1997; Why there is so much attention focused on the case; Greenspan's defense style.

Discusses how the confessions of a miner have rocked a mass murder trial in Canada. Roger Warren, who methodically described how he planted a home-made bomb in that instantly killed nine men at the Giant gold mine near Yellowknife; Details of the crime, investigation and arrest; Evidence presented at the trial.

Announces the arrest of striking miner Roger Wallace Warren, 49, on nine counts of murder in the September 18, 1992 explosion at the Giant gold mine, Yellowknife. Miners Allan Raymond Shearing, 50, and Timothy Alexander Bettger, 38, were charged by the RCMP with vandalism and setting off smaller mine blasts in the weeks before the explosion. The investigation; Warren's bitterness at Royal Oak Mines Inc. for hiring replacement workers; Reaction to Warren's arrest.

Focuses on former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan. Canadian court ruling regarding alleged sex-related charges against him; Details on the charges and the decision of Supreme Court Justice Michael MacDonald; Comments by Regan's lawyer, Edward Greenspan.

Reports on the trial of Marilyn Tan who was accused of injecting HIV-tainted blood into her former lover Con Boland. Conviction of Tan for a different charge; Inconsistencies in Boland's testimony.

Discusses the increasingly notorious trial of Marilyn Tan--a former model accused of injecting her former lover, photographer Con Boland, with HIV-tainted blood. Relationship between Tan and Bruce Sanson, chairman of Managed Investments Ltd.; How personal privacy was one of the first casualties of the trial; Details of relationship between Boland and Tan; Testimony of Rachel Deitch, a former client of Boland and close confidante to Tan.

Focuses on the trial of Marilyn Tan, accused of injecting her lover, Con Boland, with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Details of the testimony; Their kinky lifestyle; Tan's apparent hold over members of the opposite sex.

Focuses on Roger Warren, a Canadian miner who confessed, on tape, to setting a bomb that killed nine men in an underground explosion at the Giant gold mine near Yellowknife in 1992. How the accused murderer has now recanted his confession; His claims as to what led him to confess; Medical experts who will testify to Warren's health and state of mind at the time of the confessions.

Focuses on the trial of Roger Wallace Warren, 50, a former hard-rock miner accussed of being one of the biggest mass murderers in Canadian history. His involvement in a bombing that killed nine miners who had defied a four-month-old strike at Yellowknife's Giant gold mine; Confession given to police; Court case against Warren; Description of how he allegedly set the bomb.