* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Allan Hawco is the show's star, creator, and producer. He also writes and directs multiple episodes each season.
* CreatorsOddball: Creator/RussellCrowe, an Oscar award-winning actor with a healthy international film career, guest starred for one episode of this series, a cult Canadian dramedy. He did it as favour to Allan Hawco, with whom he's good friends and for the chance to hang out with Alan Doyle, another friend.
* DawsonCasting: Twenty-year old Marthe Bernard played sixteen-year-old Tinny in season one, and Lola Tash later played sixteen-year-old Sloane. Mark O'Brien was 26 when the series began, playing late-teens Des.
* DirectedByCastMember: Mark O'Brien directed the season six episode "No Rest for the Convicted," and Allan Hawco directed the season six episode "Dirty Deeds." Of course, Hawco is also co-creator and executive producer of the series, and wrote or co-wrote many of the episodes.
* FakeNationality: Sean [=McGinley=] is an Irishman playing a Newfoundlander.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: C'mon, did anyone honestly believe they'd kill off either [[spoiler:Des or Leslie]]?
* [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes/LiveActionTV Keep Circulating The Tapes]]: The pilot episode "Hidden Agenda", which was not included in the [=DVDs=] released in North America and Australia/New Zealand/Oceania as [=CBC=] reshot the pilot with a different plot and a different actor who played as Malachy.
* NoStuntDouble: Allan Hawco did his own driving stunts.
* PlayingAgainstType: Paul Gross, still best-known as the virtuous Benton Fraser on ''Series/DueSouth'', as the self-serving Kevin Crocker.