643 replies to this topic

[Victoria Watcher]

It’s important to kick intoxicated females completely out of the bar. For her own safety. No harm has ever come to an intoxicated female after leaving a bar.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 March 2025 - 05:31 AM.

[Matt R.]

Are we not doing safe consumption sites anymore? Hard to keep track these days.

[amor de cosmos]

i'm still trying to figure out what the problem was since she wasn't overserved by the pub & also didn't seem to be bothering the guests there. now they've worked something out with a nearby 7-11 so in the future people will go there & do the same thing. what am i missing here?

[Matt R.]

Intoxicated patrons must leave the premises. You aren’t missing anything, it’s the law.

[FogPub]

Intoxicated patrons must leave the premises. You aren’t missing anything, it’s the law.

Just because it's the law doesn't always make it right.  If someone's too hammered to walk it's highly likely the best/safest thing they can do - even if unintentionally - is stay right where they are.

[Matt R.]

No argument from me.

[Victoria Watcher]

Booze until 4 a.m.: Latest last call in Canada coming to downtown Vancouver

 

 

 

https://www.ctvnews....town-vancouver/

[Victoria Watcher]

Foreign residents in Saudi Arabia say the kingdom has quietly relaxed its longstanding restrictions on alcohol sales, extending access to a broader group of non-Muslim expats.

 

According to several expatriates interviewed by AFP, non-Muslim foreigners who earn at least 50,000 riyals per month (about $13,300) are now able to purchase alcoholic drinks at the country’s only authorised liquor shop in Riyadh.

 

This is the latest in a series of gradual policy shifts that began when premium visa holders—once the only non-diplomats allowed to buy alcohol—gained access last month.

 

 

https://www.firstpos...l#goog_rewarded

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 December 2025 - 10:53 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Mike K.]

This is a massive problem for governments used to generating large volumes of liquor taxes.

Look at downtown Victoria. It’s a giant bar now. There are so many brewing related businesses that if the industry contracts, it will be especially damaging to the downtown economy. Any time I see a media piece focusing in on an existing liquor-based business, I can’t help but think, is this a quiet advertorial? We recently saw The Drake featured in this way.

[Matt R.]

They will just raise the taxes so it nets out the same, don’t worry.

[Mike K.]

They’re lowering the taxes, to encourage more consumption, are they not? Beer prices have stayed largely the same or have fallen as everything else in the economy has shifted pricing higher.

[Matt R.]

Lowering taxes? Whaaaat? The excise tax goes up all the time, I think they capped it for 2 years in 2024 at 2% increase pa but I am not sure. @grok, pull that up.

I haven’t seen prices decline on beer at all. Where are you seeing this?

Edited by Matt R., 24 January 2026 - 08:54 AM.

[Mike K.]

This Christmas, Phillips was selling 15 packs for $19.50, cheaper than I remember seeing 15 packs in recent years.

I see now, I was reading that per-capita taxes (revenue) has fallen, not the taxes themselves. Whoops.

[Matt R.]

Yeah there are some weasel and lucky killers out there, like the Phillips tilt, but I think that’s an outlier.

[Mike K.]

I tried Tilt, and it’s way, way too craft beer-y.

I didn’t find it at all comparable to Lucky or PBR, etc, but that’s just me.

[lanforod]

Huh and here I though you were a teetotaler.

[Matt R.]

Maybe try the Tilt Light.

[Victoria Watcher]

Tofino is developing a strategy to reduce alcohol-related harms in the community.

 

Mayor Dan Law said statistics on hospital admissions and RCMP calls show there is a greater use of alcohol in the tourist destination and surrounding region than elsewhere on the Island.

 

Instances of substance-use disorders, primarily involving alcohol, in the Alberni-Clayoquot region have increased by 40 per cent over the past 15 years, and alcohol-caused admissions to the Tofino hospital were more than four times higher than the rest of Island Health’s alcohol hospitalizations in 2023, the district says.

 

Factors cited include seasonal tourism, a strong hospitality industry and limited health and emergency response resources.

 

 

https://www.timescol...oblems-12104346

 

 

In 2024, the province granted a request from Ahousaht First Nation leaders to limit alcohol purchases at the Tofino liquor store as a way to “reduce alcohol misuse and illegal resale leading to associated crime and public harm with spirits packaged in plastic bottles that are available for sale at the B.C. Liquor store in Tofino,” the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General said at the time.

 

 

 

substance-use disorders, primarily involving alcohol, in the Alberni-Clayoquot region have increased by 40 per cent over the past 15 years, and alcohol-caused admissions to the Tofino hospital were more than four times higher than the rest of Island Health’s alcohol hospitalizations in 2023

 

 

 

I don't think "Tofino" has an alcohol problem.  Ahousaht has the issues.

 

 

 

He went on to say that over 100 people have passed away in Ahousaht due to alcohol and drug related causes over the last four plus years.

 

https://cheknews.ca/...idence-1207255/

 

 

 

 

^ That would be the equivalent of 20,600 deaths in Greater Victoria, at that same rate.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 April 2026 - 08:04 AM.

[Matt R.]

Liquor license fees are going up so the Branch can afford to integrate AI into everything.

Increase between $75 and $660 depending on licence class, I suppose.