In Depth: High Spirits
- High Spirits: Main page
- Alcohol and health — a dangerous mix?
- Alcohol: by the numbers
- A sampling of statistics on Canadians' drinking habits.
- Viewpoint: Alcohol and aboriginal people
- Katherine Walker looks at the pervasive, but changing, 'drunken Indian' stereotype
- Alcohol: reading list
- A list of resources on the subject of alcohol — from quirky historical details to sobering health facts.
- Media archive
- High Spirits reports on CBC News television and radio
Your View
- YOUR VOTE: Do you know people who still drink and drive?
- YOUR VOTE: How much alcohol do you drink?
- Old enough to drink
- Is there an optimum minimum age for legal drinking? Should the drinking age in Canada be lowered? Raised?
- Privatizing the liquor trade
- Should alcohol sales be controlled by government monopolies, private businesses or some mix thereof?
Related News Stories
- Many Innu children suffering from FAS
- Feb. 8, 2001
- Keep it to one glass of red wine for heart health: study
- Feb. 13, 2008
- Substance abuse among seniors rising: addictions foundation
- Feb. 22, 2008
- Drinking, smoking down in Ontario but pot smoking up, report finds
- April 15, 2008
- If stressed, men more likely than women to crave alcohol: study
- May 12, 2008
- Wine uncorks challenge to beer as alcohol drink of choice: StatsCan
- June 9, 2008
- Taxes, stricter alcohol limits could help cut cost of alcohol abuse: report
- June 11, 2008
- Wine compound may reduce effects of aging: new research
- July 3, 2008
- Fewer suds downed, Americans say, but alcohol disorders persist
- Aug. 6, 2008
- Soldiers in combat at higher risk for binge drinking: U.S. study
- Aug. 14, 2008
- Women who binge drink more likely to engage in unsafe sex: study
- Sept. 4, 2008
Video & Audio
- Digital Archives: Last Call: Canadians and Alcohol
- CBC Digital Archives traces Canada's changing relationship with the bottle. Clips from 1942 to the present on a wide range of alcohol-related topics.
- The National: Battling the Bottle, Oct. 22, 2007 (Runs 14:01)
- A report from Kugluktuk, Nunavut, where residents have struggled with alcohol-related problems such as bootlegging, drunkenness and suicide.
