Prohibition in Northern Canada: VICE INTL (Canada)
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- Officially founded in 1999, Nunavut is the youngest territory in Canada. It's only been two generations since Canada's stewardship of the land forced the Inuit people out of their semi-nomadic way of life and into a modern sedentary one. But while the introduction of contemporary conveniences seem to have made life more comfortable, the history of Canada in the arctic is mired in tragedy, and the traumatic effects of residential schools and forced relocations are still being felt.
Today, Nunavut is in a state of social crisis: Crime rates are four times the national average and the rates of suicide are more than ten times higher than the rest of Canada.
If you ask people here what the driving force of the problem is, a lot of them will say: alcohol. Even though alcohol is completely illegal in some parts of the territory, it's been reported that 95 percent of police calls are alcohol-related.
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Prohibition works every time. That's why America is drug free.
kastaway2 I see what you did there
Yeah. Because it’s illegal everyone is scared to import and use drugs. It’s obvious from the zero use around the country of drugs like heroin and cocaine. Shown in all the police studies on drug use.
Lmao
The mob loved it....
kastaway2 Lmaooo I like that one ☝️
I'm native american and it hurts everyday to see fellow people still struggling with alcoholism and the effects of residential schools, my grandma experienced the residential schools, she even wrote a book on it before she died.
What's the book called?
@@legzfalloffgirl5148 I honestly can't really remember it, I'll have to ask a family member about it. It's pretty obscure by today's standards
Yes, historical trauma has impacted the new generations. Boarding schools in particular, where physical, sexual and emotional abuse occurred on a daily basis. My ancestors, as well as yours suffered through that. But, it didn't end there. All of that trauma endured by our elders is still being passed on. Where does it end? I'm Native American, and I plan to do something, I want to help those addicted to that poison that was introduced to our people. Stay well friend.
It is so unjust. Those who put the quest for resources and $$$ over the traditions of an entire people AND the pristine environment are the root cause of the devastation of humanity. Makes me despise the greedy pigs.
@@rickyb6086 Wish you the best and wish you'll succeed.
"Prohibition make crimes that are not and men criminals who are not"
-Lincoln
yep it simply just creates job openings in the black market
Fuck Abraham Lincoln
Ken burns
@@jacobl2920 I'm with ya. Still . . . Good quote
Tne law determines if you're a criminal or not.
I hate alcohol. It ruined my life. I've had to start over several times. I'm so fortunate that I've never hurt anyone. I've got a few solid months of sober time going now. Just have to keep pushing. But life really really sucks right now. I can only ask for prayers
NuclearSteve X one day at a time, brother. I’ve been sober for almost two years now, and it feels so good to get that freedom. Remember that the booze has never given anything but more pain and stay strong!
stfu no one cares
Ill pray for you. Im in recovery from heroin myself. You got this
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 I'm doing great. Hope you're staying clean. Peace and love
@@nuclearstevex4516 i am, thank you!
No wonder they are depressed. Going from a nomadic tightly knit culture to a consumerist isolated modern society.
+casbont Should have just left them alone then?
Yes. Let them live how they want. They still could have moved to or purchased modern conveniences if they wanted to.
WaterspoutsOfTheDeep yep
Left them alone? no, treat the as a neighbour, because thats what they were.
If I lived in winter forever land I'd be sad as fuck every day
As Stephen Fry once said about Substance Abuse:
"Maybe they mistake the symptoms for the cause"
I think that is whats happening right there...
*Takes away the lifestyle, sense of purpose and individual freedoms of a group of people in one of the most hostile climates in the world*
"WhY dO tHeY dRiNk SoO mUcH!?"
Joseph Pelletier it’s not that they drink too much, it’s due to them missing a enzyme that aids in processing alcohol.
Nicole Baum he was referring to the reasons as to why they drink
Yea, why do they?
Heaven forbid there be any personal responsibility. It has to be the fault of everyone else that they consume alcohol stupidly, knowing full well its destructive nature, knowing full well they are not genetically predisposed to handle it well, knowing full well it's not even legal in many communities.
C M no, modern society is drastically different from how most native people ever lived.
yes, humans are pragmatic and can adabt somewhat quickly, but this is a 180 directional change to the old way of life.
it will not work in a few short years.
as much as it wouldnt work sending out urbanized people back to the wilderness, lol
Australia has the same issues with our indigenous people (mostly in remote regions). The same trauma was suffered by the Australian Aboriginals. We can't blame the indigenous peoples because we forced a foreign way of life onto them and the trauma that created runs deep.
I was just thinking the same thing, so sad to see. All indigenous people around the world have been oppressed, it's heartbreaking!
Sad stuff to think about let alone see first hand
True it’s very sad I hope we can fix these issues
@@lightningfun6486 i guess they can only be fixed if the government actually addressed these issues rather then sweep it under the rug.
I mean at the end of the day picking up a bottle is a personal choice and nobody is forcing you to do so
It's not about alcohol in my opinion, I would say that unemployment and lack of any real future to look forward to is what is forcing those people to drink. You can see that the same sentiment regarding alcohol is present in Russian society as well.
Yeah you're right. I mean look at where they live. They pretty much live in glorified sheds in a place that probably just below the arctic circle and in a permafrost. I mean what do they have to look forward too in life? No opportunity, nowhere to go, nowhere to even get warm.
mrdojob I don't understand why they don't go back to there traditional way of life? There is nothing stopping them
I think the traditional ways are dead and there isn't any going back. It's just the lack of any opportunities, isolation, cold and poor living conditions that are keeping people miserable. The alcohol is just coincidental and a sign that something else is wrong. Banning it is just sweeping the real problem under the carpet.
mrdojob bingo
I think a lot of their way of life was taken away and rejected in residential schools. Sadly, the people who could teach them their old ways, a lot of them are dead.
Hey The little boy praying in the residential school is my father. Not Inuit but cree and the picture was most likely taken in edmonton at the TB Sanatarium.
There's a picture of my mother that gets circulated incorrectly quite a bit, too. She's dressed in a school romper sitting at a piano with my grandfather standing beside her in the family's parlor but it gets circulated as her at a residential school with an instructor.
My grandpa ran away and joined Vaudeville to avoid the Indian Act.
I hate how our images get reused improperly
@Joseph William Shaw sr probably not ..it probably happened just the way they said it did.
When you have a population of 6000 people and many many many of those are alcoholics, it's not unfathomable that some don't parent their kids at all. It's also likely their parents are passed out drunk all night.
Think they said 6year olds and 4am btw
The T.B sanitarium got turned into residential apartments if thats the old charles camsell hospital
I am a 59yr old first nation, i was lucky my spirit was strong as a child, my spiritual grandfather would talk to us and my mom would translate. He told us not to touch that bad stuff and be kind to people. I have never drank or done drugs , even though being raised in a alcoholic home. I brought my son up to have a strong spirit , hes now 29 and has always been alcohol and drug free also. I am so greatful for my grandfather and parents teachings. I see families around me loosing family members to alcohol and drugs, its heartbreaking. We can only hope they will find something to build their spirits.
I remember several years ago I suffered from severe depression and mental disorder. I was addicted to illicit pills, alcohol, and smoking until I was recommended for psilocybin mushroom treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly I'm 8 years clean now. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against anxiety and depression.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in New Zealand. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I had the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on Instagram?
As a Canadian that lives near an aboriginal reserve, many of the issues in these areas and with those groups are a direct result of colonization and the residential schools. Although this doc centers on alcohol, other factors like low employment, poverty, substance and other forms of abuse, and community corruption also play a factor in what's mentioned. It's good that the issues are being addressed, but people need to realize that this can't be fixed overnight.
ya but making something illegal will fix everything
prohibition always generates crime, how hard is that to understand. There are thousands of examples for that throughout history.
+Tiny Lebowski Yeah I used to smoke weed like there's no tomorrow, felt like I was part of a movement to legalize weed and all that. Then once it got legalized in a few states, I just stopped caring as much. I probably would have stopped smoking for my health eventually anyway at some point, but when things are legal they're not such a big deal because there's no chase to get them and you know you can get it whenever. Classic case of a kid being told "no" so they want to do it even more, same concept applies here
+Tiny Lebowski Go to the rest of Canada to reserves and tell me the legal alcohol is helping lower their crime rates lmao stfu you aren't qualified to speak on this.
+Tiny Lebowski So does lack of prohibition unfortunately.
WaterspoutsOfTheDeep it's one of those catch 22 situations I totally don't disagree with you but there's just I dunno
He's talking about the direct link between criminalizing something and more people committing crimes to get around that criminalization.
Getting a criminal record for doing something everyone else in the world is allowed to do, having a fucking drink, then not being able to get a job, which makes drinking the only thing to do!
25 years ago I worked on the docks in Nova Scotia as a Longshoreman. We used to unload shrimp and clam boats that were crewed with Inuit. I drank and partied with them but never got too drunk or turned my back. Lots of crazy times
turned your back on the Newfies or the Inuit???.........lol
dont turn your back when drunk, a drunk like to romp any hole!
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It’s awful that this is the current reality of many native people.
this is the current reality of many PEOPLE.
You look very handsome bro
@Mtthyman Inuits are mongolians, not native.
$600 for a bottle of booze? I would learn how to home brew at that point.
The difference is knowing.
kparker1145 You can learn anything from the internet.
Even the base price was crazy. 60-70? A bottle of that vodka where I live is like $20.
Midnite Reveries The big question is, what are you going to do with that knowledge?
kparker1145 move there and become a bootlegger. at those prices the cold might be worth it.
Really amazing video. I lived in Iqaluit in 2011, drank at the bar shown in the video "the Store House", and got to know a lot of people of all ages in the community. I can tell you with certainty that the levels of poverty, alcoholism and violent crime in Iqaluit would shock most people in the rest of Canada. It reminded me of a developing nation, I couldn't believe that what I was seeing was actually happening in Canada. People in the southern part of Canada truly have no idea what is happening up there above the tree line. Bootlegging is indeed rampant and in fact, was a major source of the revenue needed to build the town. Thank you to Vice for giving Canadians a brief and eye opening glimpse into the conditions being experienced. Drinking with the Inuit is an experience I won't ever forget. VICE
Well it happens in the indigenous communities in the south as well. So indigenous wouldn't be shocked, imo as an indigenous person in WPG but for other people that have no contact with anyone of indigenous ancestry, for sure they'd be shocked.
@@KayKay114 Regardless it doesn’t happen on these extreme levels
Still happening. My cousin walked off from the village. Hasn’t been found yet. It’s been two weeks. Still very strong to this day. Many suicides. More then I can count of my fingers. (Not even 20). It’s hard. No grieving happening. One after the other. No time to grieve. It’s wild.
thinking of you and your cousin.
Ну потому что в шоколаде родились! Вот и вешаются почём зря!
The direct translation is “bad drink.” Not “bad water”.
fire water lol
It was a lose translation.
“Drink/water are the same noun to them and it means virtually the same thing.
Rick Therrien no, it isn’t. Imiq and Imaq are two very different words. Imialuq not imaaluq lol imaaluq is lots of water.. imarluq is bad water lol imialuq is bad drink lol don’t try to educate an inuk on his own language
Jason Carswell most white people have done some form of racism but for me to call all white people racist is racist itself, right? Just because most are doesn’t mean they all are.
Lazarus Epoo please excuse me I was only going by normal translation formality.
Many words in other languages are a lose term and do not reflect the English word directly.
Such as Native language the word “tay” can mean hello, greetings, salutations and blessings.
The English language is strict where many other languages are lose based and can be translated to various forms.
I am sorry if I offended you and that was not my intention.
But thank you for informing me on this subject and I will be more careful in what I say next time.
Cheers!!
god just imagine how much cocaine costs up there
Prob cheaper then the boos
5000 a 1/8
Yeah man it's crazy people here in canada buy dope in town and go sell on the rez (indian reserve) and they can double even triple the cost because drugs are so scarce up in those parts
First offence is a fine Second is three years in jail. Never seen anyone go for a third time tho. Biggest bust was recently 58-26oz and 87-40oz it was worth estimated 270,000$ this was 3km out of Wollaston Lake reservation. Coke doesn’t sell one 0.2 joint 10$, 100$ gram (weed) now imagine money in that hush tho..
can't over price it, have to cut it more.
If you ban something you only make that thing more desirable.
unban murder 2012
So you are a crackhead?
It also means the banned substance gets more potent.
@Asserting Word that's an equivocal fallacy Alcohol and drugs are an item whereas Pedophilia is a mental illness
For example. I am from the netherlands where cannabis is decriminalized. After emigrating to spain i observed that there are more cannabis users in spain where it is illegal than in the netherlands. I always felt there was no mystery to cannabis growing up and that reflects in the amount of people using. Every drug should be legal and controlled in a way that there will only be quality product availble for a lesser cost that what it cost on the black market and that way combat the "ghost" economy, create a additional income for the government and reduce verdoses from bad product.
This is hard to watch. My heart breaks for indigenous Canadians. Canada has failed you greatly. I am so sorry
You should be sorry, it's all your fault.
Give them booze!! Who are we to decide who can drink or not...seems racist to prevent a specific race from being able to enjoy a completely legal vice
MonsterT84 they can’t handle it. Their bodies can’t metabolize well.
It’s an isolated area. Much of Alaska is like this too. Natives can’t metabolize alcohol very well. They don’t have a biological resistance to it. Facts: pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm
@@monstert8424 oh get proven wrong
That chaos of growing up around alcohol abuse messes with your mind and spirit. I’m fifty now and I still have terrible memories of that environment. It’s something that really skews your moral compass 🤦♂️
@Peter S. I went to many Al-Anon meetings. But most beneficial thing I did was find a therapist I trusted, someone I told all my dirty nasty things to, and it helped tremendously. If your struggling with drinking currently please find yourself a meeting and go. And KEEP GOING. They work if you want them too in my experience.
@Peter S. if I can help you out throw me an email at csdooley1 at gmail. I’ll try and get back to you ASAP. Whatever advice I can give is yours Peter.
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I live in Yellowknife and we have some liquor stores, I hate seeing my mom drunk every Friday or every time my dad is out of town pains me seeing how she's doing that I'm glad I didn't learn from her and stuck to school
My hometown. Hope you are doing well
Also from Yellowknife best anti drinking campaign hang out by the post office or try going to a atm in the winter some guy had a lawn chair set up in TD a few nights ago
My mom was loaded all the time (pot, but she waaaay overdid it). I would never stumble around drunk or high in front of my children. I'm 45 years old and the pain is still there for me.
Smh i wish i couldve stop my mother an father from drinking while i was growing up. My father died of exposure winter 8 years ago. My mom quit when my now 12 year old daughter was born. Now its still too late, liver cirrhosis is invading my mom.😥😥. Good job staying in school.
So I drink an 18 box every weekend, is that considered bad?
my god.......this is some of the saddest stuff I've ever seen. These people used to be proud, resileint and healthy....sustaining themselves for thousands of years. Now they have been stripped of their self worth and identitiy. You really can't possibly understand losing your entire culture/identity unless you are a native person's yourself.
+Matt Whitmire "intense fear of abandonment" is one of the causes for suicide. Jesus.....just think about that. Fear so strong you would take your own life.
+Matt Whitmire so you understand it, but other whites can't?
+Babidi Well, I didn't say that, but I do see how that line can seem like "I'm the only one who can understand" so I deleted it. I am not special. Also, I don't want to take away from my main points. I think any critcal thinking and educated white person (with a heart) can see how losing your entire culture and way of life can leave an entire people feeling "abandonded" and less worthy. But, to know the true pain of it all you have to be native and from these communties.
+Matt Whitmire The residential school system has a lot to answer for in these areas. Many were terribly abused and there's intergenerational trauma.
+Siouxsie 06 yup. I went through that system but it didn't break me..the more I got hit, the more I held on to my culture.
Tommy A is a beast of a man. Hes such an inspiration. I'm so happy to have known him during my college days at fleming.
9:57 "I wish you didn't have to fly away"... Holy crap does that street art hit you right in the feels...
Yeah, okay bud, my "feels" are aching tremendously after seeing that mural pfft
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During the winter months in Scandinavia, the family would go religiously to the local bathhouse. I realized later growing up, that this was a good coping mechanism. But if you have nothing in your local community, nothing but alcohol. You have a setup for failure.
You like Jordan Peterson? Is he big in Scandinavia?
@@calebcostigan2561lol! Pretty sure weirdo bigots like Peterson are NOT popular in a forward thinking place like Scandinavia
$500 for a bottle of vodka? I'm in the wrong line of work.
puzzled how any of the people can buy those bottles
And that bottle costs about 30 bucks where I work
@Farmer Larry I actually looked at the smirnoff at my work and a 5th is 13.49$ just because I was curious today and someone bought a million of the whipped cream ones
A Giant Bottle 1.75L aka a "Handle" of Smirnoff costs $15 at my local liquor store. And this dude's paying $600 a bottle! That's a 40x / 40,000% markup!
End prohibition. Re-legalize all drugs over the counter just like they used to be for thousands of years since the beginning of time until 1915 and restore our right to choose our own medicine.
@@justlolatthisworld5402 that's crazy, haha like I was sayin, at my work a 5th of smirnoff is 13.49$ you can get popov or nickoli for like 10$
Amazing documentary. I live in Canada, but I didn’t know they had prohibition up in Nunavut. This was eye-opening.
🤔 I wonder how much this "committee" drinks while they decide if someone else can drink
This is just foul
Iqaluit and pang are such amazing places with such wonderful people. breaks my heart to see these problems manifest like this.
I read this great article about addiction, it changed my outlook on the topic in 20 minutes. Basically it linked addiction to isolation. That, for example, as much as 80% of vitenam vets experimented with high grade heroine while in combat... but the wide majority of these users were able to get off the stuff as soon as they returned home without rehab. The article also mentioned that old rat coke test, where the rats picked the coke over food or water and eventually starved to death. They found out that there was no other stimulation in the box.. nothing but the rat to do but either eat/drink/or consume coke. Once they recreated the same test but this time added more rats and gave more stimious for the rats.. grass, running wheels, obstacles.. so on. 0 of the rats became addicted.
So.. When I hear that people are in the far north are having trouble with alcohol.. it makes sense to me. It is not that they are picking Alchol over a life full of options/stimulus. They are picking the drink over the isolation of living up north... spending long periods inside.. seeing the same people over and over again... not having many (if any) job prospects..
I don't think the problem is education (waking up the next morning from a binge is an education of itself... same with seeing the lives of older alcoholics unfold.. The problem.. as I see it... is location.
Lmao location really? Nah its education and a good support system dude. Jobs also help but you cant say that "well they just live in the wrong place". These people did very well being a semi-nomadic people but they are having difficulty adjusting to new system imposed on them which they cope with by binge drinking all the time.
I agree completely. This has honestly been my take-away every time I see these issues in far off remote locations. Especially ones with harsh environments. You're constantly cold, it's always dark, and you're very often indoors.
Mental health is the real issue. People use substances to self medicate .
Im just assuming , might be wrong but I bet a majority of the youth in these towns would like to leave because of isolation issues.
Weird how these locations didn’t have these problems before a certain time. It’s generational trauma from the past. Alcohol was their only coping mechanism. Now it’s passed down. Prohibition isn’t the answer. Addressing the past, and practically dealing with the current problem of prohibition. All poverty and prohibition leads to crime.
What are 6 year olds doing playing outside at 4 am?
When the sun is up 24 hours a day it doesn't matter what the actual time is for many
Turkish Delight that's why they went over dum dum
@@trevdogbunkers1048 dum dum I was replying to the comment. Good try though.
The old world
Getting booze bra
As insensitive as this might seem, people from the other parts of Canada just ignore the northern half of the country.
I wish they would have spent a bit more time to explain how truly isolated Nunavut is and how dark (literally) the territories can be during the winter. It's a truly unique even amongst Canada. This is a fraction of Canada's population that live in extreme conditions, and I wish these reasons were explained a bit more.
It doesn't fit the narrative
This is shocking. Never imagined Canada to have prohibition in this day and age. Damn shame
America has prohibition too, the fact it's not on alcohol makes no difference.
Spend some time with Native people in Canada and you will learn why there exists prohibition in areas.
Lynchburg, Tennessee where they make Jack Daniels is a dry county. There are STILL dry counties in America. Look it up.
Harizl I'm Canadian who works in healthcare. I've seen Natives and how they struggle with substance abuse and countless other problems. My point of view is that the Natives haven't had the same advantages as others in my country. They were born into a broken and rigged system to fail them. We all know that prohibition doesn't work. We're witnessing where the war on drugs is going. I was just shocked to see such a problem in Canada. It's true that the government and the public neglected it for a long time.
fivealive2
I agree with most of what you are saying.
Where I disagree is about the prohibition and mainly because I feel no one should live up north and cost the Canadian government the large amount of logistic hassles it takes to keep up the standards we do up there.
There will always be substance abuse in all communities, but native communities up north and separated reservation are simply breeding grounds for 2nd rate solutions or people ignoring their problems altogether because they are out of sight.
Harizl How can you blame them for living in their land of origin and heritage? Video explains how they were forced to relocate to these communities and forgo their cultural identity. Prior to that they lived further out and scattered living off the land. It isn't a stretch to say that all their problems originated with the Canadian government. It's a fact we have to swallow. We shouldn't feel pinched about supporting a few thousand people living up north because we owe them much more. Think of all the land and natural resources we profit off of.
The fact that these folks are so far out; the alcoholism doesn't surprise me no more than it surprises me that you find the same issues in Alaska, the Appalachians and other remote places. I'm an alcoholic, sober 6 years. It may sound cliche but getting to the root of the underlying issues & solving the issues along with a solid support system is what may help individuals.
“A lack of responsible drinking experience” or “education” is not the reason for these people’s alcoholism. They drink because of the cultural annihilation and genocide they‘ve endured.
Isn't it. Come in, change everything they ever knew, tell them they are savages, kill, beat their families over nothing, suck them dry for hundreds of years and wonder why they are chugging a whole bottle whenever they get a chance.
As a Canadian, I know a little bit of the history of the relations between the aboriginal and non aboriginal peoples. It's shitty to put it lightly, Drunk Europeans introduced alcohol, people on both sides abused it. Because of no education in this or similar matters, the aboriginal communities across the country suffer from crime, domestic issues and such.
There seems to be only one way to fix this. The territories need infrastructure and resources. Physical contact to the provinces, that would take much time and effort. Only by making the north less isolated, and more able to treat these social issues. Schools, hospitals, stability.
Only problem, no one in Southern Canada, wants to go up to the most inhospitable and isolated place in the world.
I bet if we can somehow make the north less isolated. By means of giant highways, establishing communities along the way to the north, bring stability closer to the north then we can try to give the stability these communities. As Canadians, we owe it to these people who's lands we've forced ourselves on to try and mend the issues we made for them.
Maybe with the sovereignty disputes, we can get more Canadians up north, more communities could be made around military bases that need to be put up there if we want to maintain our borders, Though I wonder if Harper has even considered this at all...
Or, you know, they could move to civilization. There is no way to build highways, no reason to sink that much money for 20,000 people
Nathan Callidor ??? I don't quite know what your point was. You mind clarifying?
Do, you know how to read? Because I stated that they should NOT build any highways. Also, it isn't their land. To claim ownership of land you need to be able to enforce your claim to it.
Nathan Callidor
True, we need permission, but the main problem is that these people are so utterly isolated from the things that could help curb their issues. They need infrastructure up there, so either they, or we can help build proper facilities for education and healing.
They live a very lonely way of life, and we have such a large country. They could use a lifeline to the south, to make a harsh life just a bit easier.
The territories are in a very troubled spot. It's very expensive to build or support anything up there.
Of course they can do what they wish, but they are Canadian. They deserve a good quality of life.
DavidELD Ya, they can move. There is no sense living in the wasteland of the north. That solves a whole lotta problems, at a much cheeper cost.
"Opening a beer store is a bad idea because once 4 kids got into the store and played there" - DAFAQ is this logic???
I wish you the Best, you are my family. I really respect and hope our people get better. Thanks To Vice for the report.
I saw a lot of these same things in Alaska. I was stationed there in the Army and was totally ignorant to these issues before I was exposed to them firsthand. It's a very complex, all encompassing situation. I'm not sure what the answer or solution is but it's not a one size fits all deal. Decriminalizing and social welfare programs would be a good start but implementing virtually anything is made 100 times harder by the sheer logistics of it all. The scale of this is massive both socially and geographically.
*They destroyed an entire civilisation of proud people who were absolute masters* at surviving in extreme cold, and knew the icy planes like their pockets, and now that they have lost everything that made them _who they were_, all there is left to do is to get drunk. A few of them have the courage to take in the devastation of their people whole, and try to do something about it, preserving the knowledge that took thousands of years to acquire and is now being lost in two or three generations.
A century ago all men aged 16 and older knew how to survive and be self sustaining with a small bag of tools and a knife, in conditions nobody else on earth could handle without bringing tons of equipment. Now, they probably couldn't skin a rabbit if you asked them to. It's like going from being the most famous and proud man on earth to a drunken hobo rotting in the gutter in a few years.
It's the same story with all indigenous people, by forcing them into our insane society we are told is the way to go by the people that profit from it the most whilst the rest gets eaten away by all the awful unnatural things it brings, we make them nothing. In their world they were as happy as can be, purposeful and "high status", but the minute you put them in villages like this they become basically unemployed poor uneducated and lost people. Worst of all: there is no going back. Once the knowledge is lost, they can't survive and thrive like their ancestors did. Thousands of years of experience just disappear with the last of the elders, as their children drink themselves to death, ashamed of themselves... Genocide 2.0: no guns, just vodka and a few dollars.
Spot on! Thank you for writing this!
Adrien Perié your correct and it's so sad to see a people so brilliant destroyed slowly over time
I agree, but was that their intent? I think the intent was religion-based. Wish they could talk to people who did that to them and ask why. I think often white man in history thought they were "helping" or they were carrying out orders. "just following orders" is a phrase I hear more and more in the US by cops and it's so dangerous! The Nazi's were "just following orders" and people need to stop and think about what really IS right and wrong. I can understand why many people don't like white people, but please remember that white people now are not the same people who committed injustices and that those white people were of the highly religious type who are STILL doing damage in other governments and countries TODAY, see Uganda. "Liberal US", who tends to understand Science, and who knows that facts are "things that are true," really do empathize with what people have gone through at the hands of colonists and are angry about it too. There are a lot of good white people who DO care and they are mostly Scientists, Environmentalists, Ecologist, etc. If I had money, I'd put it to good use doing good. Just beware people pushing info that aren't facts. Religion doesn't have much of a place in modern era. Science is VAST and always evolving in it's knowledge and there is so much to learn. It also has explained the once un-explainable in the bible and I get why religious people are angry. I was so angry when I found out who Santa really was and I was a kid! Imagine someone after 30yrs!
I can see though that they can still live close to that lifestyle if they are allowed to still hunt. I have to read into this more about what is preventing people from still living close to the same way.
fuck off bleeding heart. there was war, rape and murder before the whiteman
Vice you butchered this story. Nunavut is a huge land mass not just the island you showed. It is not a country or province but a territory. Canada doesn't impose a prohibition, it is done by the tribal chiefs of each area.
Zooni Bubba it's amazing how they didn't even fact check their geography....
Canada is massive but our territory’s are way different from our provinces so amen brother
Typical from a large news story!!Don't get it twisted Vice is no different 😂😂They just put on a front and come off hip so young people and fucko hipsters and potheads feel like they're being heard....Its absolutely genius actually ...unfortunately people aren't bright enough to see through the smokescreen....😥😣😥
Whitesplaining from vice
@@CZcamssucksdix whitesplaining?.... and we're the ones called racist lol
Alcohol is horrible. I used too drink everyday for about 10 years. Been sober for 2 years and feel alot better 😇. I know the struggle these ppl go through 😔
Ага! А мне баджет с таксами не даёт! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I had too teach myself how to drink alcohol irresponsibly
Canada: *destroys a civilization and isolates them with our way of life*
Also Canada: “y’all got an alcohol problem lol”
@Tomahawk Chop what do you mean eskimos are awesome
They just can’t deal with alcohol. My dad was a criminal defense lawyer and did legal aid society work. The majority of his clients were natives for alcohol related offenses.
Tyler Sip not a problem who brought alcohol in white people 🤯 brought it
Stop yoking Europeans with inbred Masonic Islanders
didn’t the americans do the same thing to their native american? plus be the last country to ban slavery?
7:54 *"Do you have any booze on you right now that you're looking to sell?" "Yes, I do!" LOL*
I'm amazed to see compassionate and caring police. It's a small blessing to this community that's already hammered by addiction, poverty, and isolation. If only the community networks everywhere could produce this kind of police force that actually protects people.
I like how the sheet said 21. In canada the legal drinking age is 19 years old and 18 years old in some provinces
It used to be 18 here in US in early 80's.
Sweden 18 drinking age
20 for dringing alcohol home
Most start at 14
"The rapist living with the women he assaulted because there is no other choice"
that one got to me
There are no other place to go
Perla Girl she is being over dramatic like most woman .
Deplorable Patriot you need help. please see a therapist.
The problem never is the alcohol itself. In many Indian communities along Latin America and immigrant ghettos in Europe, people use to drink a lot due the lack of traditional values and poor integration to the western way of life. When you lose your identity, lose your place in society too.
True alcohol and drugs definitely fuel it tho. Not saying prohibition works. But if you throw gas on a fire it gets bigger.
So the problem is caucasians..
@john maziasz You can't even spell why should anyone take your advice XD
@john maziasz you okay?
I wouldnt say "lack of traditional values" because these cultures have their own traditional values. The traditional values the natives had was forced out from them and stolen from them as well
man. watching Nunavut made me automatically roll a joint and open a beer bottle...
Your parents must be so proud of you champ
@@latenightprowleroner7930 because drinking and smoking automatically makes you a failure? You’re a prude.
You know, sugar, yeast and a still... why buy it, when making it is so easy. I recall the days of alcohol shortages in the old country (Poland) and every 2nd neighbor had a still. It's cheap and easy to make. Of course that wouldn't solve the alcohol abuse problem.
Isn’t yeast illegal in the reserves as well
and who taught you how to drink?? your family, your neighbors, your friends??? (same here).......when everyone is abusing, that's what you learn from them, the only thing you learn from them.
residential schools, forced relocation, unfair resource distribution & access to inappropriate coping measures. . . why wonder the reasons for the outcomes
Not to mention the high price of the stores, mental health relocating community to community and having to wait eather weeks or month for them to come by only for them to leave a week or 2 later, jobs always full and only few chance to get them when they are looking, cycle of substance abuse and cycle of family abuse, junk food being lower price and the healthy foods being higher prices
It's not the alcohol it's the mistreatment of the natives
@@juniperburton7693 Think if you look at how the situation was handled and time frame it was done in, this might of been the best outcome realistically one could expect which is rather sad. Right now, the solution seems to be to boot people out of communities so they end up a homeless corpse in the streets of bigger cities. Not only would the past be massively depressing, but in such a connected world, people can compare themselves to others and know their current situation is depressing as well.
@@juniperburton7693 MISTREATMENT???? Oh shut up. Any mistreatment was so many years ago. People need to quit using that as their go to and start taking responsibility for their own actions and outcomes. Its 2020 and Indians have more privileges than any other average Canadian. Tax breaks, income, hunting exceptions, education and on and on
@@bradmott3770 Dude chill. You're making this way too personal.
I am in northern Ontario and it is the same here. People passed out in the street, empty liquor, hand sanitizer, and hair spray bottles everywhere. Now it's needle drugs too. It's sad and does not reflect the majority of aboriginal peoples, but these people are the most visible members of their community.
Honestly it sounds like some of the problems australian indigenous people have. Especially in rural areas
@@PropheticShadeZ one of my neighbors is a elderly aboriginal woman. She slipped on ice downtown here in February and broke her hip. She laid there moaning for 30 minutes before anyone stopped to help. Passersby thought she was a drunk. She doesn't drink at all. She just told me that horrible story a week ago. Very sad
Are you in Thunder Bay by chance?
@@jasonmccool4342 not far from there
@@jasonmccool4342 Thunder Bay has alot of drunks lol
I think these officials and experts are missing the point when it comes to the root cause. Take a community of people who for years has lived a nomadic and therefore physically demanding lifestyle and force them to become sedentary. What do you think will happen. You don't just discard years of evolution in a couple decades.
The trauma.... my heart hurts
This is pretty much a textbook example of how prohibition only makes the problem worse.
It's helping. Less Eskimos.
I felt like crying the whole time. Such sweet people.
Nunavut is 15 days older than me! Really puts things into perspective. I've been alive just as long as our youngest territory.
That's the most polite, mellow cop I've ever seen.
I mean what, is he supposed to yell and establish authority? He did as he should.
14:00 "not quite like the ghost movie" LOL, that was priceless.
that was hilarious 🤣
the way the guy says "Booze" at 0:41 is hilarious
Boooooooooooooozeh
lmfaoooooo
Akkahol 11.40
inuit people have weird ass accents lol
Trizm, I hate to break it to you, but you have a weird ass accent too.
Salute to the RCMP officer for being so polite and respectful. God bless you, Sir
Here in the States it could go either way, but from my personal experience it would not be like this and more degrading or intimidating.
@@josuemc93 I feel everyone reacts to a situation based on experiences. Cops in US face more challenges dealing with civilians due to the guns. Hence treatment will be different. Compare a cop in US with a cop in a third world country and all of a sudden the US cop will look good
Аппять бога, ебать их в жопу! 🤦
can we get an update, 5 years after?
Iqaluit now has a beer and wine store with a limit of 24 cans of beers a day. Or 4 bottles of wine. But it's actually gotten worse
@@alainga10 is that per person?? Because thats a lot of alcohol per person each day lol
@@justinwatson6932 yes it is per person
@@alainga10 that is fucking insane!
@@justinwatson6932 alcoholism has a way of dependency, more you drink the more your body gets used to it so they need more to reach that ‘peak’
Lol these cops were so nice “we’re just gonna get you a nice place to sleep for a few hours, then you can go ok?”
Cop also said, "you understand you are under arrest?"
I wonder what they say when there's no cameras around.
@@dspottedeagle5190 yeah they're usually not that nice all the time
@@dspottedeagle5190 Cops are people, its when you get them on bad days you get fucked. Cops do have a lot more accountability in Canada though, but in places like Toronto I've heard they suck dick. I've had good experiences, but I'm in a smaller town and I'm sure that's not universal. Treating them with respect and acting innocent is the best you can do.
@@simplestatic3751 Legally the police officer has no choice to arrest the person since the person is too intoxicated to take care of himself and doesn't have any friends of family members who will take him intoxicated... he has to sleep in the drunk tank (RCMP cell) and the RCMP becomes responsible for that person's wellbeing until he sobers up.
My wife was stationed in a small town in Northern Ontario with a high Native population. It's very sad indeed.
It's complicated… but I believe alcoholism runs rampant when people are bored and have no self worth and/or depressed. There is literally nothing to do in these towns. The government gives them just enough money to survive. Many of them feel trapped, very much like the ghettos in the U.S. Imagine how depressing it would be to a young person if you thought "This is all there is…." It becomes generational and cyclical and people don't know any better.
this is probably one of the worst comment sections i’ve seen
care to expand on your point and explain how the government in the 21st century "casts them aside"
Then you're naive to the textreme, and shouldn't really be commenting on things.
@@muddled1vy they could just move off the reservation and boom clean water.
@@themanwithnonamecalledwyat7575 I don't think its that easy
Yup a lot of nativity going on but I can't blame them as they don't understand anything about Inuit culture or what it like to living in the Canadian arctic . I grew up in Iqaluit and live there from 2001-2012 it was the most amazing experience of my life absorbed myself in Inuit culture the best I could and have lots of Inuit friends, so of which responded to a alcohol in a negative and other were fine. I drank with them in the bars there a few time and the legion there aren't the nicest of places very dark and depressing and you can almost count down until the first act of aggression with talk place then the bar bouncers with jump on the person and then the police where also jump on them and take them away. Think have change restriction wise there is an alcohol and wine store that open up a good few years not long after this came out I think maybe 2017 or something. It rather unfortunate isn't a single alcohol and drug rehabilitation center anywhere in Nunavut when there should be one in every community. Inuit people are amazing people who like a lot of other aboriginal and first nations people where forced to adopt are way life which has cause a lot of cultural confusion which intern as led to many problems. For instance a lot of Inuit people are put into office jobs there aren't really trained for or ever like. The Government of Nunavut (GN) is now 21 years old but its a bit of a mess which there are slowly trying to figure out even the simplest solutions. They tend have a feast attitude of famine out look particular when in comes to money to Inuit it just some thing you might have one day and they gone the next so sharing in a big part of their culture. The education system is base on the Alberta curriculum there isn't one tailored to one that work best for Inuit children and adults. There needs to be on the based around a more hand on approach and teaching valuable life skills just for example. As the women said in the video ''we'll get there but we need help'' and I could agree more, southern who come to living and work in the North need to willing to be more open and be apart of the Inuit culture.
I'm Portuguese and we are the second biggest consumers of wine, and I don't see drunks everytime I pass by, since it's something so normal to start drinking young, alcohol is not mistified,no one really cares about it.
This is so sad! Seeing the facial similarities between Nunavuts and Mongolics (Siberians and all the nomadic tribes native to northern Asia) breaks my heart even more! I feel you, I feel the pain of losing your own culture. When nobody cares about you, the only thing you should do is care about yourself, try to take care of yourself and stay strong! This is hard but, hopefully a change will come!
@csc lil Mongols don't need empathy, cause they murdered many of my white brethren, and honor their murderous ancestor, Genghis Khan.
In one of the native reserve in Ontario, the local liqour store was in an trailer. Employees showed up one morning to nothing but cinderblocks
Jesus Christ like what the f*** is it with the Indian people why are they so hooked on the Alcohol I mean I could even see if it was like heroin or something but she's alcoholism I mean to the point where I like whole entire communities are drunks that's insane cleared out a whole liquor store one night wow
@@bigstem1592
American Indians have a mutation in the gene for the liver enzymes that metabolize alcohol. It makes alcohol way more potent to them.
I live in Ontario and we have a trailer LCBO here too it’s not just reserves
@@gregorymalchuk272 also for thousands of years there has not been any alchohol in the native community, in Europe Africa and Asia they have been drinking for the same amount of time
@@bigstem1592 Your answer is at 18:27 in the video.
The translation for their word for alcohol being "bad water" is a perfect euphemism.
Alex Flockhart it’s more like “bad drink.” Lol
Direct translation
Imiq-drink
Imaq-water
Imialuq-alcohol
Why don't they just make honey mead?
@@sadhu7191 Starting up a colony of honeybees is probably the most difficult ways to make alcohol
Watching this I am reminded of a conversation with Andrew Weil who pointed out that prohibition results in a more concentrated, more damaging product as it is easier to smuggle a smaller quantity of a concentrated substance that is easier to transport...so beer and wine go away, in favour of ever more potent substances.
I still remember the special quarters the mint released when Nunavut was founded. It's a sad fact that MANY northern communities in Canada live in substandard conditions.
PaperChaser weren't they toonies?
PaperChaser hey you single?
"it was like 4 am and some guys saw the kids come out of the liqour store"......WHA???
Ya I was thinking so same thing... This little story could sum up why the community is having problems
Alcohol addiction is crazy scary. Especially with how normalized and broadcasted alcohol is, its quite sad.
I know from a family member of mine struggles everyday for 20 years ongoing... It's an extremely tough to get out of an alcohol addiction when alcohol itself is so normalized and advertised.. I know its a problem when teens, underage are drinking with their parents, kids get to try their first sip of alcohol at the young age of 13 years...
I live in Canada, didn't know any of this. Good reporting
Honestly if I live in a place where there is no jobs, it's always cold asf with snow everywhere and no sun, I'll drink my life away. I don't blame them but I think some should emigrate to other parts of Canada
Except that other parts of Canada are ignorant to the lifestyle of these people, what they've been through. More often than not they are treated like 3rd class citizens. I wish it were that easy but turns out us “nice Canadians“ are closet douchebags because we constantly pretend this issue doesn't exist nor take any responsibility or action.
Exactly. I'm surprised how ignorant people are to the effects climate can have on human wellbeing. Depression, suicide and addiction are rampant across all of Canada (the real numbers are classified information). There's a reason why Canadians who can afford it spend most of the year in Florida or California. You can't have a happy life without sunshine all year round.
Natives drink their life away all over Canada. Doesnt matter the location. Then they blame white people
these problems existed in most northern parts of canadian provinces high violence, crime, alcoholism is popular and hard drugs etc, many get banished from their towns/rez flooding them into cities like thunder bay and Winnipeg spiking the crimes.
Unfortunately if there aren’t jobs and a way to support yourself relocation is the only sustainable option. Doesn’t matter if you’re First Nations in Canada or a coal miner is West Virginia or a cowboy in Montana, when the jobs leave you have to leave too.
People are panicking about cannibis being legalized in Canada when it's alcohol that's the real problem.
Who exactly is panicing?
@@yannick245 boomers
Who the fuck refers to marihuana as "herb".
@@onfoenemgrave Rastafarians..
Alcohol will always be the worst problem !!!! Its useless and a waste of life. It should be illegal before alot of drugs ! Check out some random statistics if you think I'm just a hater 🙂
I love how chill Canadian cops are. That drunk dude is literally cussing him out and his reaction is to calmly remind him of his rights.
Alethea (the filmmaker) has a really interesting documentary about the importance of the seal hunt in Nunavut. I think it's called Angry Inuk, and its pretty cool to learn more about Nunavut and the Inuit.
He just said the country(Canada) is consuming an incredible amount of alcohol and then says it is banned in 95% of its area. Good work vice.
You are confusing land,ass with population.
Sooooo…yeah.
Here in Germany alcohol is pretty common so one day I travelled into native village didn't know anything about probation. Like always hurts I had like two or 3 six packs beer with me and some more bottles of vodka just had some fun from time to time. I spent like one day of fishing in the village but as soon as somebody found out that I had alcohol with me almost everybody gathered around and wanted to have some. So I gave everything away and we had a night party just one sixpack I remained in my car and thought that's mine I'll keep it for myself. The next morning after the party some elderly people showed up, they found out about the last six pack, so one of them offered me a bow for that. I agreed.
Several thousand kilometres later when I wanted to get some arrows for the bow showed out that the bow had a worth of estimated like $1000 and he just gave it to me for one sixpack. I never even know why he did it and I never even know how much the value of the deal was but I'm just very sad that they are so addicted to something so common in our human Nature. And if I knew in that time I never would've done that deal
Florian Schadt wtf is a native German? There just native white European Germans or native Asian looking Germans?
Da sieht man wie groß der Drang dort ist der Realität zu entfliehen.
In a lot of ways, addiction is a disease of hopelessness. You can't deal with bootlegging, alcoholism, and violence until people have their basic needs met. Food insecurity, job insecurity, housing insecurity, no education, trauma, on and on.
It makes me so sad that so many Canadians have not had the same experience I have had in this country :( we must stop the oppression indigenous peoples in Canada
Sad to see so much hate towards BC and Canadian First People in this comment section.
The First Nations are a loving people, they have such great community strength and tradition
22:00 "Good, you don't have to say anything, but anything you do say could be used as evidence, right?" One of the most Canadian things I've ever heard haha
0:07
The dialogue: "it also suffers from incredibly high rates in suicide and crime"
His face: :D
The price of that is so crazy I can't believe the lengths people go to for a fix
You’d be surprised. Some peoples’ fixes can be not even related to substances.
So confused how they can afford $500 vodka but are living in poverty
That's why they're living in poverty. Blowing their savings on alcohol to feed their fix.
Eww why not eat out? I'd rather spend my savings on food than alcohol. It's stupid.
Alcohol doesn't even taste good! Bitter and yucky! I'd stay on my choco and milk drink lol
It's called addiction.
Khaleesi Romaerys They don’t drink it for the taste they drink it for the effect
From living next door to the Navajo Nation I can say that it is more of a fact of feeling suppressed as a community and a people then it is the alcohol. The alcohol is just the tool that makes the heart heart a bit less
exactly
+Kory Normandin The alcohol is a release for people in these situations.
ya, but we did the same thing in america woth marijuana and the war on drugs, which is really the war on us citizens. he problems are complex social issues, its not as simple as "ban drugs to fix everything!"
Banding any thing just creates a need
Man I live on the ontario border and I think winter sucks here .. sun goes down by 5pm cold af snowy but nunavut is a whole nother level I can imagine why the suicide rate and crime is so high seems like a depressing place to spend your life
I like that he called the effects of alcohol a kind of high instead of saying "drunk". Alcohol is definitely just a different kind of high, saying "drunk" seems like your trying to normalize alcohol
Saying drunk doesn’t normalize alcohol it’s just a word
Vodka makes you high
And saying "high" seems like you're trying to fearmonger and demonize alcohol. Save your preaching for your Sunday school classes, child.
I can only speak for myself but it definitely is a "high" to me. The low is the hangover.
I know alcohol is a depressant, but that first two hours is energetic bliss.
I knew I could make my high better by not eating.
So I would work 12 hour days landscaping. Eat nothing. Then have like one beer and feel amazing.
When your life sucks and you're too tired to do anything and can't sleep from aching joints.
Alcohol is a damn good way to "get by"
The problem is that alcohol when abused, is like a temporary suicide. An escape from reality. Falling asleep to forget who you are, and what you've done. An audition for death.
I don't blame people that choose over reality because reality becomes unbearable sometimes.
Stock Name drunk is just the word for alcohol high....
This is sad.
But just one thing I never understood: What is it with getting arrested for beeing drunk. Why that?
In Germany it happens that the cops drive you home or get you a cab, if you are too drunk (or an ambulance if needed). You only get arrested, if you are causing trubble. Why should a drunk guy get arrested only for beeing drunk?
The native indian population(s) in Canada (And America for that matter) suffer from very serious alcohol addiction...Because unlike Europeans who consumed it slowly over thousands of years and evolved to consume it, they were forced to consume it rapidly, quickly.
Only happens there, not anywhere else in Canada
+Arnold Weigermann Well, Europeans livers have evolved to better digest alcohol, that's true. But the effect is still more or less the same. Europeans just have a less serious hangover.
Its how you deal with the drug and I would argue for them to learn this it would be better, if it was legal.
They would not must fear repression from the state and therefore they would be able to concentrate on their real problems.
The swiss heroin program has a similar philosophy and it has great results.
For one thing, if a very drunk person passes out cold outdoors in Nunavut, they can freeze to death...
Take him home - so he can keep drinking, and beat up his wife and kids - or stumble outside and freeze to death ......
Native Americans in both the United States and Canada have community issues related to alcoholism and poverty. It has all to do with bad policy and prejudice.
Some native Americans did have alcohol.
If you're nomadic it's hard to make alcohol, but not if you have cities.
@TheRetiredtrucker Well don't drink it. I haven't adjusted to heroine so I don't use it.
I'm from Inuvik, NWT. Hello to Nunavut
God bless the natives of canada 🙏🏽 🇨🇦