Just to give you a smile, the epic leap to beer sales in Ontario grocery stores has leaped right over South Bayview. The CP24 store list is here but will be of slight interest to most people. In fact, the status quo seems fine here in both Don Valley West (Her Premiership’s riding) and the adjoining neighborhoods in all directions. It seems Leaside, Davisville Village, Moore Park, Lawrence Park and other nice places will carry on somehow. There’s always the Beer Store.
HISTORICAL NOTES
Ms. Wynne is said to have made history by buying a six pack at an event in the Loblaws on Leslie Street near the Lakeshore Tuesday morning. No such thing has happened since the end of prohibition in Ontario (1925). Maybe not even then. It may add context that it was once a concern that Ontarians might buy groceries in a grocery store — at least with a credit card. In the early days of such things (when Visa was called Chargex) the Ontario Government refused to permit grocery stores (Dominion, Loblaws, A&P) to accept credit cards for grocery purchases. It was suggested that feckless card holders would over-buy on things like tomatoes and baloney.
