renegadepress.com receives an anonymous message that leads Zoey to investigate a group of girl bullies in her school. But when the investigation makes her the girl gang's next target, she faces mounting pressure to drop the story. Instead, Zoey exposes the truth about the bullies on renegadepress.com and the bullies are suspended from school.
Jack discovers that his sister Crystal is corresponding with a potential cyber-stalker. When Jack lures Crystal's stalker out of hiding in order to expose him on renegadepress.com, Crystal gets wind of it and arranges to meet him earlier, still believing he is just a 13 year-old kid. What she encounters is indeed a 20-something stalker. Luckily, just before he can abduct her, Jack and Zoey arrive with their renegade cameras in tow to catch him red handed.
Zoey is fascinated by ‘bad boy' Ben and decides to write an article about life ‘on the wild side' in order to get to know him better. Zoey is entranced by Ben and on the thrill of acting like someone different than she is. When she goes to a party with Ben and gets miserably drunk, she lies to Jack and realizes she's gone too far.
Carmen discovers a story about a girl in her dance class who is getting breasts implants for her sixteenth birthday. Amanda is so depressed about her normal teenage body that her parents and her psychologist support her decision to have major cosmetic surgery. Carmen is amazed that Amanda would consider the operation but Amanda's obsession with image makes Carmen reexamine how much attention she and her friends pay to their looks.
Sandi uses the guise of doing a story on skateboarding as an excuse to get close to Kat, a skater girl he has a crush on. Vince wants Sandi to tape his skateboard ‘trick' for the Renegade website, but actually he wants to crash on purpose, hoping the video clip will get picked up by Xtreme crash shows. Sandi, thinking it'll impress Kat, agrees. But when Vince gets Kat realizes Sandi was in on it and feels betrayed.
At Ben's group home his friend has lapsed into a coma after being restrained by staff. Ben wants Zoey to investigate and get the guard who restrained his friend fired or charged. Zoey takes up the cause but realizes the system also holds responsibility for the staff not being properly trained. When her report refuses to point the finger solely at the guard, Ben feels let down.
A kid at school dies and the family claims it was due to a heart attack. When Jack hears it might be related to solvent abuse, he decides to investigate. Zoey knows the family, and isn't sure she wants Jack harassing them, but Jack argues his research shows that the majority of sniffers are white kids, yet you never hear about it in the mainstream news. Everyone thinks sniffing is just a native problem, but the bottom-line is it is everyone's problem.
Zoey is startled to learn her friend Melanie belongs to a local pro-anorexia website and because of stress at home the site almost seduces Zoey. When she learns that the web master is actually bed ridden and under constant nursing care because of her disease, Zoey realizes how dangerous the sickness can be.
When Carmen's basketball coach is forced to resign, Carmen decides to investigate and uncovers allegations of sexual harassment. The allegations come from the star basketball player who wasn't getting enough playing time, ruining her chances at a basketball scholarship. The coach appears to be innocent, so Carmen writes a story for renegade. When the basketball star reveals she really was harassed, Carmen goes to Jack and Zoey to retract her story -- she got it all wrong.
Jack's cousin Reg comes to stay with the Sinclair family, claiming he got out of the street gang he belonged to. But when the gang wants Reg to come back to ‘the family' they threaten Jack and Crystal. It's up to the Sinclair family to find Reg a safe place to stay and off the streets.
An indignant Zoey decides to do a story about privacy after she learns the school is planning on installing surveillance cameras. To fight back, Zoey plans on planting a camera in the staff room, but when she tests the camera at home she accidentally discovers her mother, Linda, had an affair -- and her dad knows about it. Zoey is upset she was kept in the dark, and her renegadepress story argues surveillance cameras are not an alternative to honest and direct communication.
Carmen is courted by a big modelling agency. She and the agent hit it off and sparks fly. It's then that Carmen learns from another model that the agency expects the young models to have sex with managers and clients while overseas in Europe. Carmen confronts her agent and gives up her dream of a big modelling contract.
renegadepress airs a submitted video of a girl at West Central doing an awkward dance. Kids start to parody the tape and the girl reveals she never sent it in. Jack takes it off the website, but not before dozens of other sites tamper with the original picture and spread it across the web. The humiliated girl has to drop out of school and a guilty Jack contemplates shutting down renegade. Meanwhile, Zoey has a run in with the Principal and is suspended from school, and the season ends with Jack taking up her cause... on renegadepress.com.
Finding himself in trouble with the law, Jack decides to write a story about police brutality for renegadepress.com. Zoey finally gets enough courage to ask Jack on a date only to have a distracted Jack put her plans on hold.
When she writes a story for renegadepress.com about cam-girls, Patti reveals more of herself than she would like to. She soon realizes that the attention you get by exploiting yourself is not the kind of attention she craves. Meanwhile, a lonely Zoey seeks comfort in the arms of Andrew Turnbull with sad results.
When racist music is handed out at school, Jack discovers his new girlfriend hangs out with a White Supremacy group. Meanwhile, a talent competition comes to town and Carmen, Sandi and Lynn all try out to be the next ‘Pop Icon’.
Crystal is torn when she discovers that in order to join the cool clique in school she has to perform oral sex. Finding Wayne in bed with his new girlfriend makes Crystal feel even more isolated as she wrestles with her decision. Melanie, having nearly gone through with the ritual herself, writes a story for renegadepress.com on the dangers of hazing.
Jack’s new girlfriend, Tina, discovers that her Native birth family is fighting for custody of she and her little sister. A world that neither girl is eager to return to, the issue is taken to court for a judge to decide. Both sides have strong arguments and when the little sister is ordered back to the reserve, Tina has to decide if she will remain with her adoptive family or return to her culture. Meanwhile Oscar supports Patti in her efforts to start a union at The Underground.
When popular teacher, 32-year-old Mrs.Tropek begins a relationship with her 17-year-old student, Keith, it doesn’t take long for gossip to spread like wildfire. Meanwhile Zoey decides to move in with her dad to avoid facing her mom’s new relationship with a younger man.
Desperately trying to fit in, Sandi decides to take steroids to stay on the football team. Sandi’s newfound aggressive behaviour prompts Oscar to write a story about ‘what it is to be a man’ for renegadepress.com.
When Melanie shows up at school wearing a headscarf, Zoey is forced to question her own assumptions about spirituality. Melanie, in turn, is surprised to find that Zoey follows no faith of her own and the resulting tensions threaten their friendship. Meanwhile, Jack has challenges of his own when he tries to convince a traditional Native musician to modernize his music through hip-hop.
Jack and Zoey are horrified to see that someone who calls himself “Popper” is using the renegade web site to promote his decision to overdose on-line. In a desperate struggle to dissuade ‘Popper’ before he goes too far, Jack and Zoey have to put their personal differences aside. Meanwhile, Carmen returns to school on a break from her continuing success with Pop Icon and discovers that her fame stands in the way of real friendship.
Crystal finds that her best friend, Monica, has been acting strangely lately and tries to figure out what’s wrong with her. Michael speculates that due to her sudden mood swings and new boyfriend, Monica may be into Crystal Meth. Crystal tries to save her friend from the grip of this dangerous drug before it’s too late. Meanwhile Sandi turns to milder chemical solutions to help him with other physical appearance concerns.
When deportation looms over Emilio, a new student from Guatemala Zoey and Melanie help create awareness so that he can continue to work and send money to his family. Meanwhile Alex, another new student from Toronto, is befriended by Patti, who soon realizes that being kind to the new girl doesn’t always lead to friendship.
Sandi tries to understand the developing teen brain and the effect of love on it when he falls hard for Charlotte, the drummer in a local punk band. In an attempt to impress her, Sandi auditions as a guitar player and actually gets the gig. Jack questions Zoey about the possibility of taking their relationship to the next level and Oscar, provoked by some of Sandi’s heterosexual assumptions, lets Sandi know about his own sexual persuasions.
When their mother suddenly asks for Jack and Crystal to come visit her on the reserve, questions are asked regarding her intentions. Jack hasn’t been out there for years and Crystal doesn’t remember much of rez life other than her mother’s alcohol addiction. Upon arrival, their mother reveals some devastating news and helps Jack come to terms with a secret he’s been keeping since he left the reserve.
Alex seeks Zoey’s help to find the truth about her father. Meanwhile Zoey is having trouble adjusting to the news of a new sibling. When Zoey helps Alex make a startling discovery about her past, the girls take a road trip to Calgary that reveals more about Alex than the girls bargained for.
When Sandi’s parents go out of town for the weekend he’s excited to have Charlotte stay over for the night. However, the plans get put on hold almost indefinitely when an impromptu and wild party breaks out instead. Jack, whose dad is out for the night, is looking forward to having Zoey stay over. That is, until they are unexpectedly interrupted by a visitor from the past.
When a mass email is sent from Melanie’s account criticizing Alex, she has to act fast to prove to everybody that she wasn’t the one who actually sent it. Zoey is caught in the tension between an old friend and a new one. Meanwhile, Monica returns to school from detox.
In an effort to protest gay bashing at their school Oscar and his gay friend Nathan, decide to show go to the school dance together. The only problem is that Patti isn’t too keen on sharing her boyfriend with another guy. Sandi, meanwhile, tries to find a way to spend the evening with Charlotte despite being grounded.
When a beautiful but violent story is sent anonymously to renegadepress.com, Jack and Zoey have different opinions about whether it’s a great piece of literature or a real threat against the school. When Zoey discovers the identity of the writer she has to decide whether to stand by the author or turn him in to the police. Meanwhile Alex has to decide whether to believe the story her father tells her of his thirteen-year absence, or the more disturbing version of events offered by her mother.
When schoolyard bullying is taped and shown on the Internet, Alex prompts Zoey to cover it for renegadepress.com. Zoey only agrees when Alex suggests she can help with the story – from both perspectives. As they renew their strange and troubled friendship, Zoey and Alex uncover a cyber-bullying ring. Meanwhile, Jack prepares for his CD release and all looks well until an unexpected visitor comes to town.
While writing a renegade story about two Aboriginal teens on the girl’s volleyball team, Crystal discovers their teammate and star player is blindly falling into the trap of a bad relationship with Chris. Crystal can see the warning signs and knows that it could easily get worse. And she’s right. Zoey, goaded by Alex, decides to try a new look and attitude. The results shock even Alex.
While making out with Charlotte, Sandi discovers her parents smoke marijuana. And sometimes they smoke it in front of her, and sometimes with her. Wanting to be just as ‘cool’, Sandi joins in when the mother lights up, even as Charlotte doesn’t. Being his first time, it doesn’t take long for his mother to figure out he’s high. But even he can’t predict the consequences. Jack and Crystal, meanwhile, start to uncover the truth about their father’s past when their aunt comes to town for her residential school claim hearing.
With Sandi’s help, Oscar runs for school trustee to get condoms in bathrooms. But then he sleeps with Patti and turns out she may be pregnant. Nathan and Patti vie for Oscar’s affections while Emilio pines for Patti. Patti ends up not being pregnant but she and Oscar call it quits after he loses the election.
When a West Central student is killed in a car accident, Patti wants to know who is going to cover the story for renegadepress.com. When it’s clear no one else wants to, Patti steps up and writes it herself. She uncovers some ugly truths in the process. The death affects everyone in different ways, but it’s Zoey’s reaction that has Jack concerned, even as his mother’s fight for leukemia takes a turn for the worse.
Disturbed by the way his father has been acting since Aunt Lydia came to town, Jack investigates the residential school they attended, and the priest who ran it. What he uncovers forces Wayne to face a secret he’s been hiding since he was a boy. In the meantime, Zoey develops a liking for sherry.
Crystal has to undergo bone marrow transplant surgery when it’s discovered that she’s a match to help her mother. The news is upsetting not only to Crystal, who is a little nervous about the procedure, but also to Jack who wanted to be the one to help his ailing mother. Meanwhile, the increasing intensity of Zoey’s relationship with Dylan causes Alex to feel left out and a little jealous.
Inspired by Sandi’s recent addiction to an on-line video game Oscar decides to write a story for renegadepress.com about how fantasy and reality can blur together. Jack also has some trouble distinguishing fantasy and reality when a porn site posts up some pictures of a girl who looks an awful lot like his new girlfriend, Nicole.
When Alex is put on a prescription to deal with her anxiety she is leery to take the pills in fears of becoming too much like her mother. However, she may have an easier alternative when she discovers that fellow students will gladly pay money for her unwanted pills. Meanwhile Wayne starts attending the healing circle to talk about his experience at residential schools and finds it difficult to re-live the experience.
It’s exam week at West Central and Sandi and Patti have decided to do a video project on how students prepare for tests and deal with the stress that exam week causes. Jack and Zoey have difficulty with their tests as Jack hasn’t had much time to study because of his Mother’s condition and Zoey has been neglecting her studies.
Jack is concerned when a girl starts leaving video blogs on renegadepress.com that hint at the fact that she may have killed her own mother. Sandi, meanwhile, has found a new look which he finally feels comfortable in but which his mother is quite concerned about.
After a wild party on the weekend, Zoey comes back to school on Monday not really sure of what she did or what happened throughout the night. With the help of other’s who were there as well she discovers that something terrible may have happened to one of her best friends.
During the trial against Dylan, Zoey comes to Alex’s side and volunteers to testify whenever they need her. She soon finds out, however, that her testimony could do more damage to Alex’s case than good. Crystal is shocked to find out some life-changing news about Michael.
Susie is tired of having the rules forced upon her in school and decides to get back at a teacher who’s been giving her a hard time. Zoey has to deal with her dad and Victoria’s upcoming baby delivery and Sandi struggles to help a newcomer to renegade tell a balanced story.
Jack warns Zoey about getting too close to a guy she meets at AA, fearing that he might be 13 stepping. Zoey tries to make amends with Alex but finds that apologizing might be harder than she thought and Nicole comes back to the city with a surprising proposition for Jack.
After an anonymous tip that someone’s seen Monika at a nearby meth house, Crystal decides to bring her home and get her some help. Michael finds himself in trouble with the Red Clan when they come looking for him to pay off Monika’s debt and Connor and Susie find that their sexual exploits could land them in quite a bit of trouble.
Patti has moved away from home and is thrilled to have her very own apartment… until Sandi shows up on her doorstop looking for a place to crash.
When Alex and Heath go on their first date Alex realizes that maybe she’s not quite over her experience with Dylan yet. Meanwhile Connor, Inspired by Susie’s inability to go without make up, decides to write a renegade article about why girls feel the need to cover their faces.
Jack is proud to have his music reaching out to so many people, especially troubled teenagers on his old reserve. That is, until he realizes that the teenagers are looking at his music as a way out, instead of a way in. The upcoming wedding of Wayne and Joanne finds Crystal and her stepmother growing closer together.
Zoey has a one in a lifetime chance of making it into a Montreal dance group but her opportunity might be wasted if she’s unable to deter an obsessed fan from ruining her chances. Jack gets a generous offer to buy renegade and needs the help of his friends to decide what he should do.