You may have missed it what with Christmas shopping, but on December 19, British Columbia said that it will allow the sale of B.C. wines on the shelves of grocery stores. The program takes effect April 1, 2015. The wine will be offered right beside food and most happily will not require a grotesque kiosk, or store within a store, operated by the government. As you will recall, that monstrosity was trotted out for election purposes in Ontario last summer. It had so many conditions it seems doubtful that we will ever see it. More than that, the wine will be sold by store staff over 19 at a specified desk. It seems as if any grocery store separated by a kilometre from a B.C. government liquor store will be able to sell wine this way. That means if there were similar law in Ontario, the Loblaws at 301 Moore could sell Ontario wine. So could Metro at Bayview Ave. and Eglinton Ave. E. and on Laird Drive. But maybe not Sobey’s because of the large LCBO in the SmartCentre
