I read with great interest a story in today’s paper regarding the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporations’ expanded police-like powers in this province.
I for one feel safer knowing that our “progressive” NDP government has the resources to fund undercover NSLC officers to harass small business owners with threats of legal action. Actions I’m sure are designed to intimidate those looking to compete with the NSLC’s monopolized business model. Nope, no conflict of interest there.
It is high time for a government in this province that isn’t so arrogant as to think we need protection from the evil grape. Just because someone doesn’t have the room in their home to brew wine, doesn’t mean they should be forced to do business with the NSLC. Anyone with the time and money would have a charter field day in this province.
With all the talk lately of Americans and their 2nd amendment – now you know why they are so adamant about keeping their guns. Anything to keep their country from turning into a place like Nova Scotia. – Sick of Government Catering to Unions and Monopolies
This article appears in Jan 10-16, 2013.
in vino veritas.
sooooo, does this mean the local bootlegger is getting rousted? think of the loss of work for cabbies
I remember the police busting a wine kit shop in an “elaborate sting” a few years back…for doing what they said they were doing…on a sign out front of the shop. Amazing work guys! How much did that infiltration cost I wonder? Why is a retailer of a product allowed to regulate it?
no, it’s the wine kitz using their business model designed for other provinces with more sane laws regarding the creation of alcohol.
And it’s not just for those without the space… it’s also for those crotchety old winos who don’t have the strength to lift 24 litres of liquid.
C’mon now, don’t dis DD, we all know how poor he and his government is. They need our money more than we do.
I recently took advantage of the u-brew offered by noble grape. why? because I’m too fucking lazy to do it all myself and I can afford to pay someone who isn’t. NS is so ass-backwards on so many things.
Just read about it in the Herald. The NSLC can afford (or we can, I guess) a lawyer from McInnes Cooper. I wonder what the local business owner can afford.
Guys……NS has been ‘spiritually’ fucked up for over 50 years…..you think this is bad……I can’t wait to see what kind of a fucking mess will be made of legalized marijuana!
It is time to revoke the NSLC monopoly. The taxes collected – at the NSLC, or a private store, would remain the same. Provisions already in place to ID for tobacco can be extended to beer or wine as well for corner stores and private stores alike.
Savings to the taxpayer would come from the salaries of NSLC cashiers, currently paid at rates higher than our paramedics, let alone the salaries of the fat cats in the executive and the board.
Further savings from infrastructure can be realized as well, convenience stores aren’t going to spend millions on _lighting alone_ for their stores and then pass it on to the taxpayer, like the NSLC did with their Mic Mac Mall location – and probably others.
The NSLC is as far from a frugal government corporation giving back to the province as you can get. It is high time for their reign of puritanism over Nova Scotians’ to come to a close.
In politics and large corps, it all comes down to greed.
I thought the title was “Umbilical Overlords” at first. WTF!
In the scale of world and social problems this would rate a 0.0001.
Ha nothing funnier than the bitchers that complain a bitch isn’t within the realm of social problems they feel important enough to justify copy. Funnier still, those bitchers never seem to write bitches themselves…
you think you get in trouble making wine outside your own home ….try producing your own electricity by say wind or sunshine, & running a line of free power over to your neighbor !
THey’ll nail you to a cross .
No Fucking with the power mafia boys & girls ! !
I’ve worked at the NSLC at the store level and am willing to bet that this whole situation is the work of the head office execs. They’re a slew of greedy fucks who have the worst ideas and have no sense of logic. That entire office is crooked as fuck.
#IvanNoMore
I worked for the NSLC for 3.5 years (2002 to 2006). Their management is both bureaucratic to the point where all the little men are in danger, and the entire corporation is socially insane. A lot of assholes who have their positions and nothing else. No passion in retail.
Daniel, Ivan…I’m quite sure that you don’t make more than paramedics…care to call Dartmouthy on it?
I am paid in Hudson Bay blankets and dark rum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wiXTGY6Lc
I’m down (even though I’m not pure blood)
That is “down” in the full Ebonics sense.
As to not bring condescension to either Caucasians (to whom I apologize for my ass hairs comments), and or those who have been socially oppressed and have quicker and more efficient language. As for me I am an anomaly of culture.
What a joke! NSLC is surely threatened by this! This takes no less money away from NSLC! What is the point?
I’m going to have to go and buy a coffee at the Tim’s in the hospital and think about this for awhile. Atleast they know how to run a busi….wait scrap that….this province is screwed!
Dartmouthy, if you think they’re going to privatize the sector that nets record profits quarter over quarter, you’re delusional.
Quite the opposite in fact, they’re going to keep it and inflate prices as they see fit.
You don’t like it, mr drunk, alcoholic province, then simply don’t drink.
Cause apparently it’s that easy.
oh and they don’t have a monopoly.
Premier wine and spirits isn’t government run and is open at times the LC is closed such as holidays.
Not sure about Bishops Cellar too.
Record profits? Is that before or after they pay the fat cats on the board? How about the executive? Is that after they spend millions on store fronts and advertising?
See I think they’d be making much more money for NS – if they weren’t here in the first place.
Corner stores don’t need an executive team and a board. And millions in advertising, millions in marble and fancy lights, and some of the most prime real estate in the province.
If the province were to sell off NSLC I’ve heard estimates of a $2.5 billion windfall. That would make up for the NDP treating us all like a charge card over the past few years, and then some.
They are a big straw sucking large amounts of those “record profits” into their own pockets. They are worse than worthless
I think the NSLC is a prime example of why NS is in the position it is – the bent over position, just like everyone who lives here. Time to get militant!
Oh and Premier Wine? Bishops Cellar? Guess who gives them a license… Guess where they get their stock from…
I think we should also explore some sort of off-license sales for bars and hotels like they do in the UK.