These Arms of Mine was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television drama series, which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 in the 2000-01 television season.

The show revolved around a group of professional friends in their 30s living in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. The cast included Alex Carter as photographer David Bishop and Shauna MacDonald

Shauna MacDonald

Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian television and film actress and radio announcer.-Life and career:MacDonald was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dr...

 as radio announcer Claire Monroe, whose long distance relationship formed the core of the series.

The cast also included Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin is an American film and television actor and director.-Television:Margolin is best known for his role on the television show The Rockford Files, playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin, the shifty friend and former cellmate of Jim Rockford...

 as Miles Rankin, a former American

United States

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 draft dodger

Draft dodger

Draft evasion is a term that refers to an intentional failure to comply with the military conscription policies of the nation to which he or she is subject...

 running for Vancouver city council, Conrad Coates

Conrad Coates

Conrad Coates is a Canadian actor. He has primarily been cast as bit parts, but has carried supporting character roles in several television series, including Dresden Files, Kyle XY, The Zack Files, Le Femme Nikita, and These Arms of Mine. He appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation as Jimmy...

 as Steven Armstrong, a gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 drama teacher grieving the recent death of his partner to AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

, Babz Chula

Babz Chula

Babz Chula was an American-born actress, permanent resident in Canada.-Life and career:Chula was born as Barbara Ellen Zuckerman in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was raised in Jamaica, New York...

 as magazine editor Esme Price, and Byron Lawson

Byron Lawson

Byron Lawson is a Canadian actor. He recently portrayed gangster Eddie Kim in the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane. His ethnic mix is Chinese, Japanese, and Korean....

as her much younger restaurateur husband Amos Lee.