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It was argued that the Vig Al Capone asked for is nothing to what Ontario charges.

Is that why no one in North America has even considered doing it? Just saying BC seems like a tax happy place. 2 for 1 cases of beer would be a fun weekend.

OK it sucks in BC too. Not a big surprise you guys have a Carbon Tax. :huh: Right now they have a Summer promotion at the Beer Store. $40 for 30 bottles.

Sounds like we're more screwed in Ontario than you are.

I looked it up There is at $4 difference between certain liquors you can get in Alberta and here. Not huge I suppose. Beer on the other hand. Which is more to the issue of this thread is a bit more marked up.

Who cares if she's separtist or not. The moof only proves that the NDQ is pretty irrelevant outside of Quebec and only really replaced the Bloc in the house.

I guess Liquor is one thing. I bet all provinces have stores that sell only liquor. But Beer is something different altogether. $28 minimum for a case is pretty horrendous. Especially when they raised the price from $24(sans deposit) just cuz. I'd love to hear a breakdown of the mark up on an average case of Molson Canadian. Another problem is the fact that the LCBO often charges less for imported wines than local wines. WTF is up with that?

I enjoy the occasional cigar. I can go to Holy Smokes an outlet in some Loblaws and get screwed on the price of a cuban cigar. Or I can go to a local corner store and pay a reasonable price for a cuban cigar. It's still duty paid.

Because of their huge markups. And because it's the only place in Ontario you can actually buy Liquor. If there was only one place in Ontario that you could purchase say. . . ANYTHING! I'm sure it'd be profitable too. Monopoly FTW!

So if they allowed competition, by letting other outlets sell alcohol. You think they'd mark-up the price similarly? I doubt it. The LCBO's overhead must be huge considering the fact they pay their employees Union wages, they publish a useless magazine and they advertise on every radio station on the hour.

We're back to this again. The CFL's best Defensive player a few years ago was a BC Lion. He's a great player for the Miami Dolphins right now: Cam Wake. A Defensive CFLer making it to the NFL is very rare though.

You just said that the LCBO isn't at fault for the mark-up they apply to alcohol. According to that article the mark-up is more than twice the the price the LCBO paid for the bottle in the first place. Tax not included.

I'm not defending them. I'm nowhere near a Lions fan. But the post-Matt Millen era has done much better in picking up good talent. Ndamukong Suh and Nick Farrier will make their defense very formidable. I'm not saying they're willing the Super Bowl this year, but they aren't the bottom feeders they have been.

BTW according to this article, you're wrong. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/27/lcbo-could-teach-capone-a-few-tricks

I re-read the post and edited. Licbo is slang for LCBO. So you're saying that it's not the Province of Ontario that makes alcohol far more expensive in Ontario than in any other place in Canada?

You can buy Beer in 40 oz Bottles at corner stores in Quebec. You can already buy Wine in Grocery Stores in Ontario. Convenience stores have got to great length to ensure that underage people don't get access to tobacco.

Of course it's about the LCBO, it's the only place in the province you can buy most alcohols. An they arbitrarily ban types they don't like.

It's funny we say Licbo is all about controlling the consumption of alcohol. As if going from $1 a beer to $1.25 a beer makes a huge diff in people's consumption. Yet anyone who listens to radio will hear ads glorifying alcohol use. Of course at a huge mark up.

Yeah 60% in any election will probably get you a huge majority. So you justify any tax by saying it funds hospitals? I doubt Quebec is in the shits because you can buy beer anywhere. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their stagnant growth and bloated public service. Don't they have $7 daycare there? In the Sun today a columnist said that Licbo pays $5 to buy a bottle of liqour they sell for $25. I bet the mob doesn't even have a Vig that high.

The price of alcohol in this province is a crime. And the fact that we have to pay to fund these lavish LicBo's and hear ads on the radio every half an hour telling us that $2 cans of imported beers and $25 bottle's of rum are actual deals. It's obvious that a vast majority of Ontario agree that we are being totally ripped off. This has nothing to do "Social Responsibility" and everything to do with lining the pockets of the provincial government. At the very least they shouldn't treat people in the province like kids and allow us to purchase beer on the Mac's Milk across the street. Heck they can sell Tobacco! You can't even advertise Tobacco in Ontario. It's beyond me why Tim Hudak hasn't jumped on this bandwagon already.

In the next episode that wife-beating hick gets eaten by a zombie.

Shwa you really didn't prove that the Libraries are being well used. You only cited a Star article that quoted the the Library service that said check outs are up 15% over last year in June. That doesn't mean much when this debate is about individual libraries. But then Slate give an example of a Library that could probably be closed because it's located near a bigger one. I suspect that's not the only example of this.

The Detroit Lions actually have the makings of a good team. Being in the bottom 5 so many years in a row will do sthat. Their QB Matt Stafford needs to stay healthy though.

LOL believing that the Bloc's policies are good for the country as a whole.

You're like Black Dog, you require stats when your position is challenged yet provide very little to defend your position. The claim is that "SOME" cuts in Library services might be needed to fill the budget hole. The response isn't to ask if those cuts could be endured without greatly reducing the average Toronto resident's access to free internet and books. BUT to call anyone who would even consider cutting anything related to Library services an anti intellectual idiot. It's elitism at it's worst. I can't prove that the cuts ARE needed, but you also can't prove to me that they AREN'T. The only retorts on this issue are because he took shots at Margaret Atwood, pronounced Library wrong and said something regarding Tim Horton's. What about calling Margaret Atwood anti intellectual for condemning the idea of Sun News.