27 Replies to “Sober October Comes Early This Year”

  1. I guess I need to stock up real quick!

    I live in a small pleasant BC town, but I can envision the violence if they cancel booze.

    1. Addendum,
      Done, Brandy and Rum now on hand, plus popcorn for the side show, when it all runs out 🙂

  2. Just saw that on a grocery store that sells Liquor right here in Blind Bay…good thing the Shell is fully stocked..!!

    God’s Country -Shushwap Day 5.
    35 in the shade
    White Lake water temp:
    80F top 12”

    Awesome… and to hell with Public Service Unions.

    1. Are you on a house boat? Awesome time, the coast and roast tour!!
      Been there a couple of times.

  4. Just allow them to buy their booze out of Alberta warehouses. They could still collect all BC tax. Just send full trailer loads of whatever Alberta has lots of.

  5. I’ll GLADLY drive a bus-load of scabs across their picket lines!
    Frigging tone-deaf public sector unions strike again, in the face of a great many real people taking a serious financial hit over the last two years, they’re demanding more money for themselves.

  6. If they were locked out for about 24 months and got 500/week less tax and no pension contribution then I’d say, “Fckn A. Welcome to the not-so-distant past of millions of Canadians you leeching mofos.”

  9. I am SO glad I retired from BCLiquorstores…and the utterly useless BCGEU. When “gov’t” imposed the “vax” mandates, BCGEU was in lockstep with gov’t. They had one job- to stand up for their members. Instead, they threw us under the bus.

    One day we were “heroes on the front lines”, and the next day we were selfish anti-vax scumbags who were putting others “at risk”. I put in 36 years with that bunch, and I will never forget, and never forgive.

    I was one of the lucky ones, I was close enough to retirement that effective the date I required to be “vaxxed”, I submitted my retirement papers.

    1. That part was unreal. The story about the women on mat leave who now have to repay their mat leave pay because they’re unvaccinated is unreal. Some of them went on mat leave before the vaxx mandate even came in.

  12. Ask the government a simple question, “Why is the government in the business of selling alcohol?”

    there is no valid reason for it to be doing so, and they are bad at it.

    1. We’ve been asking that question here in Ontario for decades and the answer we always get is because they are the only ones who are socially responsible enough to sell it. The real answer is that it puts a minimum of 2 Billion a year into the provincial coffers and it gives them that little bit more power over the peasants.

      1. The largest liquor buyer in North America. Just like Al Capone in ChicGo or Kim John Un in the slave side of Korea.

      2. In Alberta liquor sales have been privatized for decades. The government still collects all the tax. There is no loss of revenue.

        The government doesn’t have to pay liquor store employees union wages, benefits and pensions. Everybody wins.

        1. In Alberta, the government owns the distributor and the warehouses, and is the only legal wholesaler.

          Only the retail stores are private.

          Prices are still too high, because the government takes its cut first.

          The same kind of strike could paralyze Alberta also.

          1. Back in the 70’s we had a beer strike in AB every summer. Finally Ralph had enough of that crap and privatized the retail sale of liquor. Labor peace ensued. Yes it’s possible the wholesalers could strike.

            Alberta has a fraction of the Ontario market but enjoys the largest diverse selection of beer and spirits in the country. Nobody is even close to the selection offered here. The Ontario liquor board is the largest single purchaser of liquor in the world but offer consumers the most meager selection.

          2. I love taking Eastern Canada relatives and friends to Sherbrooke Liquor Store in Edmonton.
            1800 brands of beer!
            They’re always astonished. Especially the Ontario kin. They only know “The Beer Store.”
            Poor buggers.

    2. The government should never be doing what can be done in the private space, this includes healthcare and education foremost.
      Public sector union bureaucrats were running a Timmy’s here in Winnipeg at St. Boniface Hospital and were losing money. The franchise owner said how can he share in profits as a donation if he’s losing money so they cut the union out and now they are doing well. Public sector unions can’t run a Popsicle stand.
      A Timmy’s in the main lobby of a major hospital lined up continuously and they lose money. They kick out the laggards and now the Timmy’s is able to share in the profit as a donation.
      Government bureaucrats should not be doing anything that can be done in the private sector. The biggest reason us their success metric is not results, it’s budget and head count that report to them. Results are not even in the equation.
      A losing proposition when results are needed.

  13. At the border crossings. Do you have anything to declare? Yup, the shakes.

    The irony of easier access to fentanyl than Chardonnay.

    Reverse Kokanee run to Canmore?

    Setting up the bootleg truck in Kelowna. “French wine $50”

  14. On the bright side of this, with private liquor sales operating free of government interference we will see a dramatic shift in private liquor purchases. This increase will mean a diminished market for government sales when the strike is over and as a result less government workers needed. Karma at her peak. Government employees always voting for the Liberals or their henchmen, the NDP ,are going to be the first sacrificial lambs to the slaughter when the rubber hits the road.

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