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#21 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 02:15 PM

I wonder what the business case was for closing a booze store in the heart of the tourism market? Seems wacky to me.

 

I think the mall might not have liked it.  There were "security events" often.  But that's why it also left Customs House, too many troubles around the door on display for tourists.


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#22 Mike K.

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 02:34 PM

BC Liquor Distribution Branch is contradicting you Mike.

 

Ah, well. It's still two years away. The lead I got was pretty solid, but who knows, there'll be a liquor store there one way or another.


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#23 thundergun

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Posted 20 July 2017 - 03:36 PM

Hillside Liquor Store (on North Dairy at Shelbourne) is now a Liquor Plus according to the new signage and Liquor Plus' twitter feed.



#24 jonny

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 08:34 AM

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this (do we have a more generic liquor related thread?), but the "free the beer" Supreme Court of Canada judgement is coming out tomorrow (April 19, 2018). 

 

A positive ruling would liberalize interprovincial trade within Canada, by allowing alchol to be freely transported between provinces. The case came to be when a man by the name of Gerard Comeau illegally transported a bunch of beer for his own personal consumption from Quebec (where the prices are cheaper) to New Brunswick. The New Brunswick provincial court found in Comeau's favour, but the government of New Brunswick appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. 

 

This judgement, if it goes the right way, could be a boon for BC wine, liquor and beer producers. 


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#25 Mike K.

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 08:37 AM

Well, if oil can flow across multiple provinces, why can't beer?


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#26 jonny

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 08:43 AM

Well, if oil can flow across multiple provinces, why can't beer?

 

Well, it's very interesting timing given the behaviour of the BC NDP government. 

 

 

 

Canada already has settled law in this area: the 1921 decision involving Alberta liquor importer Gold Seal, where the Supreme Court ruled that non-tariff trade barriers (such as setting up a provincial liquor monopoly) are allowed under Section 121. 

 

http://nationalpost....-from-provinces

 

Apparently setting up a provincial liquor monopoly does not impede Section 121 of the constitution, which says that “All Articles of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.”



#27 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 09:13 AM

Well, if oil can flow across multiple provinces, why can't beer?

 

It was more about different high tax rates in each province. 


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Posted 19 August 2022 - 09:18 PM

B.C. Liquor Stores now limiting purchases as strike hits shipments

“..customers will be able to buy no more than three of any individual item each day, based on barcode. For example, someone could buy three bottles one wine and three bottles of another, but not six of the same. The restriction applies to all products, except beer…”:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6556192

Most notably Bombay Sapphire was gone at the liquor store today

Edited by todd, 19 August 2022 - 09:43 PM.


#29 Matt R.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 10:03 PM

The largest private store in the province is rationing as well.

#30 Redd42

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Posted 20 August 2022 - 04:26 AM

The octopus seems to be trying to rival VW in resurrecting old threads.



#31 Redd42

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Posted 20 August 2022 - 04:26 AM

The largest private store in the province is rationing as well.

 

What is that?



#32 Matt R.

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Posted 20 August 2022 - 05:22 AM

Legacy in Vancouver.
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#33 todd

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Posted 20 August 2022 - 09:11 AM

The octopus seems to be trying to rival VW in resurrecting old threads.


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#34 Matt R.

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Posted 13 September 2022 - 09:13 AM

Just because the strike is over doesn’t mean anything is moving to liquor stores. Even though they deny it, the consensus is that the LDB is prioritizing their own retail operations over private stores.

We own and operate a rural agency and as placed a massive (for us) order last Monday. We were warned by industry associations to continue to expect shortages on some product, but we were shipped absolutely nothing. Super lame.

Good news is we just paid our “surprise” large EHT bill to the province, it would be nice if they would let us operate our business so we can afford to pay the extra tax. :)

#35 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 December 2022 - 06:12 AM

The Salvation Army kettle campaign will not be set up in front of BC Liquor Stores this year.

This has been a location campaign volunteers had been stationed at for the last number of years.

“It’s disappointing for us. We had a great partnership with them,” said Salvation Army Major Sheldon Feener.


https://www.cheknews...stores-1119425/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 December 2022 - 06:12 AM.


#36 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 06 December 2022 - 02:25 PM

The Salvation Army kettle campaign will not be set up in front of BC Liquor Stores this year.

This has been a location campaign volunteers had been stationed at for the last number of years.

“It’s disappointing for us. We had a great partnership with them,” said Salvation Army Major Sheldon Feener.


https://www.cheknews...stores-1119425/

 

 

 

Salvation Army kettles welcomed back to B.C. Liquor Stores

 

“One of our concerns was that the food bank campaign would suffer if people had already made a donation to the kettle campaign outside of our stores.” — B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch
 
 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 December 2022 - 02:26 PM.


 



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