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.
Farmers who till the barley for beer or grow apples for cider will no longer be allowed to feature in fields of grain or an orchard to promote alcohol once new laws are in place.
AFRICA - Her 23-year-old son started taking liquor at the age of 15 when he was in Form 2.
"I did not expect it until the time when my son started smelling of alcohol each time he came back home in the evenings. As a parent, I confronted him and did all I could to stop him but he could not change," Landirani says.
The South African Post Office (Sapo) has paid tribute to the South African wine industry through a set of five small international letter rate stamps and a commemorative envelope that will be issued on Friday.
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."
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.
Black-owned wine companies will get a foot into the Russian market when a group of importers visit South Africa next week.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a way to detect counterfeit alcohol without even needing to touch the liquid.
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.