At least that's what the import company claims! If a real Canadian can correct me, please feel free

thats why they are trying to legislate weed and ozempic. both of these reduce alcohol consumption.

When a few beers cost as much as a 12 pack and a DUI can completely derail your life, I don't blame them.

No need to correcr you as it is! 😊 https://www.crownroyal.com/story/our-home

They are the fossil fuel provinces. Alberta is by far the most entitled of every provinces. They were living by Canada's teet for a long time and then found a way to process the oil sands. By this point, they became rich. They at first tried to manage this new riches properly, establishing a provincial fund, a generation fund that the Norwegians basically copied. But then they started to elect conservative governments. Those governments reduced taxes as much as they could, slashed social programs, spent every dime they could and now they complain about the rest of Canada (especially Quebec) because they're not as rich as them. Today, their generational fund is mostly non existent while the Norwegian one is the biggest investment fund on earth.

They are the perfect example of entitled there is. They always complain that they don't want to pay the federal government for other provinces while a few years ago (decade, was in 2008 I think) oil became so cheap for a brief moment and Alberta really struggled as their oil extraction is expensive and they basically burned through their money. All they did is complain for the federal government to help them. And they went right back to their usual behavior when oil went back up. Complete assholes.

Alberta is completely captured by the oil and gas industry. Its population is docile and captured. Whatever any government does, they always vote conservative, no matter what. Saskatchewan is less bad as it's quieter, but their voting pattern is mostly the same. So for any federal government, why answer to Alberta's pleading as what ever they do, it will never change the outcome of the vote? It's good anyway as their pleadings are unreasonable. They prefer electing traitors that meet and side with Trump behind the federal government's back during a trade war, against the rest of Canada.

Well, I mean... a DUI should derail one's life, otherwise it could ruins someone else's life.

It only loads a picture, and about a paragraph for me.

Never doubt business will hurt ppl to stay alive.

good, alchohol is bad for us and its use should decline.

Look! The Republicans in absolute tyrannical power are making America great again!

TLDR;

For a few days, Chris Swonger saw some light at the end of the tunnel.

The head of the association representing U.S. distillers was optimistic a trade deal with Canada was at hand in mid-August, and that American liquor, wine and beer would soon be back on the shelves at the LCBO and other provincial monopolies.

…was this the whole article?

https://newkentuckyhome.ky.gov/international/Exports

Last year, Kentucky’s top five export products were:

Aerospace products and parts - $23.5 billion

Motor vehicles - $4.3 billion

Pharmaceuticals and medicines - $4.1 billion

Motor vehicle parts - $2.2 billion

Computer equipment - $1.6 billion

Granted, the number one country it exports to is Canada, but alcohol is a sliver.

My point being grandpa would be forced to pour out his car beer before spending the night in the drunk tank, receiving a small fine without even missing work. The punishments today are harsh and life-altering. They're so successful as a deterrent that many young people just don't even see the point in drinking at all, hence the reduced drinking in gen Z.

Alcohol is a disinfectant after all

With the number of companies that Trump is hurting, you'd think the CEOs would be putting some serious pressure on the politicians that their donations were intended to control.

I guess we have to boycott even harder.

Crown Royal is brewed, distilled, and barrel aged in Gimli Manitoba.

Recently the company moved bottling for the US market to the US, but bottling for the Canadian market remains in Canada.

We missed having an NDP premier by 3 ridings and 100 votes last provincial election.

What are the odds that Nenshi can take out Smith in the next election?

Coin flip. It's going to depend a lot on how much sentiment has swung against Smith. I have hope, because she's burned a lot of bridges in the last couple years, but it's honestly going to be too close to call either way. A lot of the people who could have made a difference at the ballot box have just fled at this point. I don't necessarily blame them, if I weren't tied down with golden handcuffs I'd have considered walking away too.

Add to that our population has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and not all of it for the good. We've got a lot of American immigrants, as well as people who have washed out of polite society in other provinces and decided to dig holes for the oil companies for food and meth money. Alberta always had a bit of a conservative tilt, but not by that much until our reputation as "Canadian Texas" made a whole lot of the worst people in the country decide to settle here. It hasn't been all bad, and there's been some good people who moved in too, but on balance we have a lot of people who don't have deep roots, don't care about our communities, and never knew that once upon a time this was union country, home of the NDP, the Federated Co-operatives corp, and other iconic Canadian institutions that are now called "Leftist."

Add to that all our media corps out here are run by Post Media, which in turn is owned by Blackrock. Powers from outside the province have spent a lot of time and money to control the narrative in these parts. It's not hopeless, not yet anyway, and there's enough of us left that grew up in North America's finest education system that see the UCP for the scavengers and parasites they are, but I won't lie it's going to be a close fight and every inch of help we can get matters.

Me too

Before I quit drinking (for now) I noticed they put on Canadian liquors that I never heard of before and they were great.