Ontario will allow alcohol sales in convenience stores by 2026. Some 8,500 retailers will be allowed to sell beer, wine, cider and coolers between 7am and 11pm. Read: toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-allowi… Is this a political win for Premier Doug Ford?

Lots of changes in Doug Ford's promise to update booze sales in Ontario. Here is what is good and what you need to know. torontosun.com/opinion/column…

📢 Beer, wine, cider, & other ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages will soon be sold in convenience stores, which means: ✅ Modernizing, outdated regulations ✅ More convenience while shopping ✅Reducing red tape for breweries, wineries, & retailers ✅ Saving you time & money

Always willing to chat about Free My Booze.

As someone who has personally invested a lot of time, energy, and personal funds to trying to convince this government to sell the LCBO as part of my Free My Booze campaign. They have no interest in selling the LCBO. They will not sell the LCBO. OPSEU is making this up.

News this morning that starting THIS FALL we will have an alcohol retail system that resembles the rest of the world. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

So, in short, thanks Doug Ford for keeping your promise and following through on the conversation we had during your leadership campaign. Grassroots advocacy works!

My friend Grant Dingwall is very modest about his role in this, but here's the truth: His grassroots campaign, Free My Booze, is the primary reason why we've had massive alcohol liberalization in Ontario. All the lobbyists in the world couldn't change the minds of past

The LCBO might go on strike. Fun fact. If Ontario abolished the LCBO and let private retailers fill the void, taxpayers would save $559 million/year. If we just stopped building new LCBOs and let private stores open up, taxpayers would save $323 million over 10 years

LCBO is on strike, and Ontarians are about to realize just how unnecessary it is. Time to #FreeMyBooze once and for all.

For all the folks screaming, "WHY DID FORD FILM A VIDEO ABOUT WHERE TO BUY ALCOHOL, WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE OPERATION OF GOVERNMENT!?!" Well... because Ontario is stuck in the 1930's, selling alcohol to people is literally the government's business.

Hear me out - Maybe if the government *wasn't in the business of selling alcohol* than you wouldn't get the Premier filming videos about it.

Should Doug Ford privatize the LCBO?

Immediately

100% Yes. Ideally it's broken up into ~10 pieces with each auctioned off, and nobody is allowed to buy more than 2 parts.

The LCBO union basically said, "We're going to keep striking unless you abandon your plans to sell coolers in grocery stores in September" The government has responded with "Fine, we'll start selling them Thursday." Shows a willingness to fight that I didn't expect. Love it.

Speaks to the popularity of Ford's alcohol reforms that LCBO employees / OPSEU completely surrendered just days after claiming the sky was falling.

My piece on the LCBO and its ugly history of racism, sexism, and paternalism. I focus primarily on the way Indigenous Ontarians were treated up until 1959 and beyond. There's more in the Consumer Choice Center 's Modernize Ontario project. thespec.com/opinion/contri…

Here's a clip of me talking with the wonderful Nazlıcan about the LCBO's patronizing and dark past with Indigenous Ontarians. This article and interview were really important to me personally, I am glad to talk about it for the Consumer Choice Center. Full video on YouTube.

If you're interested in alcohol reform as an issue and you're not following Sabine Benoit and the Consumer Choice Center - you're missing out. Absolutely top-notch content coming out of them recently on the LCBO and it's history.