A special adviser to the Ontario government is poised to release recommendations on potentially sweeping changes to the province’s alcohol regime, even as Premier Doug Ford remains at loggerheads with the industry-owned Beer Store over his promise to allow sales of beer and wine in corner stores.
According to data from the Global Drug Survey (GDS), India leads in the percentage of alcohol consumers who want to seek help to reduce their intake, reports The Hindu.
I join Bermudians from all walks of life in celebrating the coming into operation of the Liquor Licence Amendment Act 2019 this week. The amendments represent the first comprehensive, legislative overhaul of Bermuda’s liquor-licensing regime in nearly half a century.
UK doctors are turning to alcohol, food, and drugs to cope with the pressures of their working environment, a new study has shown.
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.
Tackling Australia’s obesity problem could be as simple as making a glass of beer or wine more expensive.
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.
Alcohol consumption in France has stopped falling for the first time since the end of the Second World War, said the country’s Académie Nationale de Médicine this week.