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Tories raise LCBO store sale scare, but Wynne says no deal

A tender circulated by the PCs on Monday morning said the Crown corporation’s “main intention is to sell properties.” ...

With beer-in-grocery-stores news looming, Wynne welcomes pot in LCBOs

Echoing sentiments previously expressed by OPSEU, the premier says it 'makes a lot of sense' to her that LCBOs would get responsibility for selling legalized marijuana ...

Competition Bureau shelves Beer Store-LCBO ‘sweetheart deal’ complaint

Restaurants Canada asked Competition Bureau last December to investigate deal signed in 2000 between LCBO, Beer Store ...

Heard: Spirits Canada wants in on liquor sale deregulation

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Heard: LCBO head office sale moves into short-list phase

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New beer tax only caps prices on biggest brewers for two years

Come May 1, 2017, the province's largest brewers – making up 50 per cent of all beer sales – no longer have to absorb the new tax, and could put it on consumers ...

Ed Clark report recommends Hydro One IPO, beer sales in 450 grocery stores

Panel says government should retain 40-per-cent ownership of Hydro One and recommends selling Hydro One Brampton into a merger with three other local distribution companies ...

Corner store group’s call for ‘LCBO Beer Agency Stores’ at odds with Beer Store, OPSEU

An advocacy poll sampled 1,500 Ontarians and found more than 70 per cent of respondents support selling beer in 'LCBO Beer Agency Stores' ...

Liberals backing ‘bigger discussion’ of booze changes – beyond grocery store LCBO outlets

Premier Kathleen Wynne says the talk of reforming liquor sales has become 'a much bigger discussion' that's usurped a longstanding project to put express liquor kiosks in grocery stores ...

Heard: OCSA talks tobacco, beer sales at Queen’s Park lobby day

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Duguid announces LCBO land sale plan, not for the first time

Minister of infrastructure announces start of sales process for 11 acres of land held by the LCBO on Toronto's waterfront, but isn't consulting with the City of Toronto or Waterfront Toronto. ...

Restaurants Canada says LCBO should liberate bulk beer

Restaurant association presses for lower beer prices, wants end to restrictive pricing agreement between LCBO and The Beer Store that could add $500 million to provincial coffers. ...