New ranking of provincial liquor laws: Ontario least free; Manitoba tops list

A new report from the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) examines all ten provinces’ liquor laws and grades them according to how open or protectionist they are. Manitoba scored highest by a significant margin, with Ontario at the bottom of the rankings. The full report can be found here (theccf.ca/tradereport). The…

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Chris Varcoe: Third time should be a charm to fix NDP’s broken beer program

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How many times do you need to be proven wrong before you make something right? For the Notley government, three times should be the answer when it comes to its ham-handed attempts to give Alberta’s craft brewing industry a hand up. Instead, it’s been caught giving a hand out to…

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Michelle Bellefontaine: Alberta ordered to pay Saskatchewan, Ontario breweries $2.1M over beer tax

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A judge has ordered the Alberta government to pay nearly $2.1 million in restitution to two out-of-province breweries after she found beer markups that favoured Alberta craft brewers violate the Canadian Constitution. Calgary Court of Queen's Bench Justice Gillian Marriott found Saskatchewan's Great Western Brewing Company is entitled to receive…

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