The series consists of documentary news reports, which were distributed through the website until the launch of the Viceland television channel's Canadian version in 2016 formally known as "CANADIANA" and "Vice Canada".
Marie, Ontario falls on a handful of people struggling to keep their fellow community members alive, similar to countless towns in North America.
She ventures into the rainforest and confronts a variety of her deepest fears, but ultimately finds enlightenment in the spirit of the people who inhabit this mysterious place.
Amid rising Islamophobia and violence in Canada, reporter Ben Makuch explores the blurry line between nationalist pride and racist rhetoric.
With the legal fate of weed still in the balance, guest host Damian Abraham went to British Columbia, the Wild West of Canadian chronic, visited grows operating illegally or semi-legally, met concentrate manufacturers making large quantities of oil in spite of the law, and checked in on the exploding dispensary scene that the federal Conservative government is trying to shut down.
The alerts issued by the federal government range from "boil water advisories" going back more than 20 years to crippling "Do Not Consume" orders.
VICE Canada Reports meets with the chiefs, the political negotiators and the young residents who have spent their whole lives without accessible clean water.
In fact, the RCMP, Canada's famous Mounties and the chief police force investigating the murders—believes there are active serial killers currently operating along the highway.
Running west to east through some of the most remote terrain in North America, passing by desolate First Nations reserves and logging towns, the highway has become synonymous with the endemic violence towards Native women in Canada: They're five times more likely than any other ethnicity in the country to be raped or murdered.
In the first episode of our new series CANADIANA, we went to the Northwest Territories to meet a modern-day fur trapper—Andrew Stanley, the Metis YouTube star who's become the unlikely ambassador of Canada's trapping world.
We visit Andrew's remote cabin in the northern wilderness to go full tilt into the Canadian trap life—trapping beavers, skinning an otter, and learning the best way to deal with two frozen 160-pound wolves infected with mange.
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.
In response to two so-called "lone wolf" attacks last year, Canada's Conservative government introduced controversial anti-terrorism legislation, which some fear will only further marginalize the country's Muslim population.
The government argues these laws are intended to protect women from human traffickers, but critics say they make the trade more dangerous for those consensually doing sex work.
Urban residents are far likelier to have easy access to the procedure, while rural people may face extra costs and time requirements like travel and figuring out where to go.
But when the body of a 15-year old First Nations girl named Tina Fontaine was pulled from the river wrapped in a garbage bag in August 2014, it shocked the city and the country as a whole.
That's why we went to Fredericton to let AJ Ripley, a non-binary transgender person who prefers the pronouns "they and them," take us through their life in New Brunswick fighting for access to proper health services.
She has an MSc in Environmental Science and taught at Yellowhead College but took a downward spiral into drugs after her brother died and her marriage unravelled.