The Federal Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation recommends cannabis be sold separately from booze, in stand-alone stores. That’s the way PEI and New Brunswick are gonna deal with legal weed. It’s an approach endorsed by multiple studies explaining how THC and alcohol exacerbate each other’s effects and intensify injury and fatalities when mixed, […]
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Where’s the weed at? Over at the NSLC
Starting next year anyone 19 or over will be able to use, purchase and possess cannabis products in Nova Scotia, which will be legally sold online and through existing NSLC stores. The much-anticipated details were released Thursday by the province. According to the government, the number of liquor stores that will stock pot is yet […]
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Craft beer conflict
The NSLC and local craft beer are in a relationship, but it’s complicated. The topic has caught the attention of beer lovers across the province, especially since Unfiltered Brewing filed a lawsuit against the NSLC last summer. The suit involves what the corporation calls the Retail Mark-Up Sales Allocation: A fee the businesses pay the […]
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Unfiltered is suing the NSLC over unfair fees
Unfiltered Brewing is launching a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia’s Liquor Corporation over what the north end microbrewery calls an “unconstitutional tax” levied against it. According to court documents filed today, Unfiltered is alleging that NSLC has been unfairly charging the brewery $0.50 a litre for its beer sales since the brewery/bar opened last year. […]
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NSLC won’t say how much money it’s spent fighting a 2009 human rights complaint
Taxpayers must wait before they learn how much public money has been poured into an enduring human-rights battle involving the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation. The provincial Progressive Conservatives this summer were denied a freedom-of-information request for the disclosure of the cost of legal fees associated with the disagreement between liquor corporation worker Pearl Kelly and […]
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New Years’ bubbly drinks checklist
Moet Dom Perignon Whether you’re a rapper or just have a general predilection for ballin’, nothing says extravagance like a $200 bottle of Dom P. You can sip it reflectively or, for the ultimate fuck-you to poor people, spray it around like you’ve just won the Tour de France. Piper-Heidsieck Recession got you down? Piper-Heidsieck […]
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Web to doorstep booze
We’re slowly, inexorably, moving towards a sensible system of buying wine, beer and spirits in Canada, where consumers can go online—or use a phone, if they are dinosaurs—and order a case from anywhere in the world to be delivered to their doorsteps. And why not? Why should booze be any different than books and music? […]
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Shoptalk-Lets
Number two electronic giant Circuit City has announced bankruptcy in the States and is liquidating its assets. The boys and girls at Best Buy (the number one American electronic goods retail giant) must be thrilled. The good news for us north of the border is that Circuit City’s Canadian presence The Source—formerly Radio Shack—is solvent […]