Alcohol buying habits in Nunavut have shifted in a big way in the same year a beer and wine store opened in the territorial capital, according to the latest report on retail sales from Statistics Canada.
The Beer Store has launched an ad campaign attacking the Ford government’s efforts to alter a legal agreement governing where beer and wine can be sold in Ontario, just days after the union for Beer Store employees launched similar ads.
Anyone caught over the legal limit, even low-range drink-drivers, will lose their licence on the spot, and be slapped with a whopping $561 fine under the new penalties to be introduced on May 20.
Coca-Cola is launching a range of new posh beverages meant to be mixed with whisky, rum, and bourbon. Although rum and Coke is already a beloved combination, the brand is releasing four Signature Mixers that it expects will pair even better.
Tackling Australia’s obesity problem could be as simple as making a glass of beer or wine more expensive.
Minimum unit pricing on alcohol should be raised to 60p to help tackle Scotland’s “problematic alcohol use”, the Liberal Democrats have said.
While Atlantic Canada is a leader in impaired-driving regulations, it has lots of room to improve in other areas in order to reduce health and safety linked to alcohol consumption, according to new report cards co-authored by St. Francis Xavier University professor Kara Thompson.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is substantially more prevalent for people in five vulnerable groups including children in care, Indigenous populations and people in prison, according to a global study by Canadian researchers.
Manitoba appears to be opening the door for more private liquor sales. New marching orders for the province's Crown corporations include the request that Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries find additional ways the private sector can be involved in the sale of liquor.
The need for age verification has led the first UK till-free supermarket to remove wines, beers and spirits from its shelves.