AUSTRALIA - From today, taxi drivers will be banned from taking passengers to liquor restricted premises if they have alcohol in their possession.
Eighteen months after a strategy was created to address what was being called an alcohol crisis" in Prince Albert, Sask., there are reports that the city's drinking culture is changing."
Updated 1 Ireland is pushing for some of the most draconian alcohol retail laws in the EU to crack down on heavy drinking.
TOKYO - Around half of elderly male drinkers aged 65 or older consume alcohol in excess of the Japanese government's health guideline of a 500-milliliter can of beer per day, a health ministry survey showed Sunday.
A Kitchener, Ont. man who ended up in hospital while visiting family in the United States has learned the hard way that drinking alcohol can nullify your claim to insurance coverage.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a way to detect counterfeit alcohol without even needing to touch the liquid.
Black-owned wine companies will get a foot into the Russian market when a group of importers visit South Africa next week.
Tipsy canoeing may soon be a thing — at least, if the Canadian government relaxes some of its impaired driving laws.
Throughout Canada, it's currently illegal to drink and boat. If you're found to be under the influence while in a canoe, kayak, raft, or other recreational water vessel, it's like being caught drinking and driving a car. That may change with a bill to decriminalize drunken boating that's up for vote.
Dutton Dunwich council may want no part of a provincial pot shop, but it's a different story on the rural municipality's main street.
As councillors forged ahead Wednesday on a path that could make Dutton Dunwich the first municipality in the province to declare it doesn't want the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) to sell marijuana in its local outlet, several residents said they wouldn't mind if pot was on the shelves.
The Supreme Court case of a New Brunswick man who loaded 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor into his car and drove home from Quebec has a wide range of businesses, organizations and associations across the country jostling to have a say at the hearing later this year.