I’ve rarely encountered such a paternalistic out-dated indefensible-yet-invincible vampiric morass as the NSLC. Small business/entrepreneur killers, inexplicable price-fixers beyond any reasonable criteria, reliably keeping Nova Scotia in the fucking alcoholic dark ages relative to most of North America and Europe. Now you’re advertising Coors? Another immensely shitty import for the same price as a bottle of the two or three decent (and over-priced through no fault of their own) local beers? What decent wine have you decided i can now buy at a 25-50% price hike? Come to think of it, what purpose do you serve? Other than driving away tourism, strangling the restaurant biz, keeping the provincialism in the province? nice one on the systematic overcharging PR by the way . Home brew rhymes with fuck you. —I hardly drink
This article appears in Nov 7-13, 2013.
same as the blueberry bitch. make your own
If you ‘hardly drink,’ OB, why get so worked up?
Also, take a trip to Ontario. NS isn’t the only place in North America that controlls the sale of liquor.
In other provinces, quebec for example, if you aren’t a beer drinker, have fun trying to get hard alcohol without visiting the SAQ. Make sure you get there by 5pm, though, cause that’s when they close.
It’s cheap malt liquor, otherwise and that shit will kill your ass.
BC controls, Manitoba controls, Yukon controls, those are my ex provinces. and kitty says Ontario and kaybec. soooooooooooo where is the ‘most of north america’ north of 49 that doesn’t?
are most of these ‘nova scotia is so backward’ bitches written by people who have never LIVED anyplace else for comparision?
I think government control is OK, it’s HOW they control that sucks so much. This is a very valid rant; forget what other places do equally poorly, example where other places do it right….or at least better.
Way back in time (1975) you could walk into an Alberta tavern and pick up a case of beer right out of their fridge and take it home! At that time, Nova Scotia had only recently allowed customers to ‘see’ the product on shelves – as opposed to requesting what you wanted at a front counter to a clerk that went out back to get the goods. Meanwhile, Quebec sold beer at gas stations!!
NSLC and it’s customers have lived in the dark ages and we still do. Actually I shouldn’t say that, I don’t know what it was like back then……most probably it was pretty easy to enjoy a good quart of grog…..without the King fucking you over!
Get off the sauce, rum-dumb.
Like that lout from “Heartbreak and Wine” this doesn’t fucking affect me so I don’t fucking care because I don’t fucking drink. Get that? Trick?