Special series on alcohol in Canada’s North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 07:45
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Alice Mawdsley is one of the northerners featured in the special CBC North Series: Booze Beyond 60. When she was 16, she was being towed on a tube by a snowmobile. Her friends were drinking. The machine ended up sending her into a pickup truck, leaving her in a coma for three weeks. (CBC)

Alcohol is one of the most pressing health and social issues in the world’s circumpolar regions.

Recently, our colleagues at CBC North, the northern service of the Canadian Broadcasting Company, did a week long series titled “Booze Beyond 60” that looked at the issues around alcohol consumption in some of Canada’s remote northern regions.

The reports feature everything from individual profiles to the challenges facing specific communities.

You can view the reports, videos, and interactive features by visiting the CBC North website.

Arctic, Nunavut, NWT

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

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