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magnumpi May 24th 2015 1:35 am
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Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11655091)
The statistics of each country are irrelevant. People are being maimed and killed in both jurisdictions and zero tolerance is essential if any reductions in deaths and injuries is to be attained.
Zero tolerance will not stop drink driving, only education from a young age will.

orly May 24th 2015 1:36 am
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Originally Posted by MikeUK (Post 11654860)
Err... From that last set of stats I looked at Drink driving is much worse in Canada

Price and availability isn’t a critcal factor in drink driving,
But you'll find incidents far lower in Ontario. Oddly the province that people tend to complain about being too expensive etc.

scrubbedexpat091 May 24th 2015 2:18 am
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Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11655091)
The statistics of each country are irrelevant. People are being maimed and killed in both jurisdictions and zero tolerance is essential if any reductions in deaths and injuries is to be attained.
The stats are relevant, if the DUI is lower in places with less restrictions and lower prices, shows the high prices in Canada are just a cash grab with no effect on drinking or driving drunk.

neilcumming May 25th 2015 1:22 am
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I bought a nice beer at Superstore in Calgary,Full Nelson organic IPA 8% ,it was $4.99 for 650ml bottle .Its more expensive than say Kokanee but I like the micro brewies or craft beers than the mass produced beers.

Shard May 25th 2015 1:32 am
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Originally Posted by neilcumming (Post 11655946)
I bought a nice beer at Superstore in Calgary,Full Nelson organic IPA 8% ,it was $4.99 for 650ml bottle .Its more expensive than say Kokanee but I like the micro brewies or craft beers than the mass produced beers.
Three bottles of that and you're really finished. ;)

Craft is the way to go. :thumbup:

neilcumming May 25th 2015 1:52 am
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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11655955)
Three bottles of that and you're really finished. ;)

Craft is the way to go. :thumbup:
I drank 2 bottles of it and a couple of glasses of wine and had a nice buzz going.Definetley will be buying more of it!

Shard May 25th 2015 2:18 am
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Originally Posted by neilcumming (Post 11655967)
I drank 2 bottles of it and a couple of glasses of wine and had a nice buzz going.Definetley will be buying more of it!
Nice one.

dbd33 May 27th 2015 12:40 am
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Originally Posted by orly (Post 11655108)
But you'll find incidents far lower in Ontario. Oddly the province that people tend to complain about being too expensive etc.
If that were true, and I doubt that it is, it would only reflect differences in enforcement and reporting. As an owner of a lot of roadside verge I know that driving, drinking, and flinging the empties out of the window is usual in Ontario. That wasn't the case in the UK in my lifetime; we just don't have the culture of drinking at the wheel the way Canadians have now and Americans did in the past.

I've no idea how one might measure the relative incidence of getting into a vehicle and driving it while already drunk or stoned but bottles/cans flung per mile seems like a good measure of the relative incidence of getting drunk while driving a vehicle.

Moses2013 May 27th 2015 12:52 am
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Originally Posted by ging (Post 11653921)
Just listening to Smooth Radio out of the UK online and they're running an ad. about a case of 30 Carlsberg for 14 quid. What's that, 20 bucks?

Here, in the Sobey's Liquor flyer they're charging $38 for a 24-pack of that Kokanee gnat's pi$$.

Are we being majorly ripped, or what?
Just to add to that, it might be the right time to invest in alcohol now before prices go up further, especially for those who can't afford property:drinkwine:

Oink May 27th 2015 3:41 am
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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11655955)

Craft is the way to go. :thumbup:
Hippie.

The4BellsLondon May 27th 2015 4:31 am
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I find the local breweries are better value for money. But getting over run by brewery tours. :(

Photoplex May 27th 2015 5:00 pm
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Establishments were able to sell alcohol dirt cheap in Alberta (specials such as 25c draught beer, $1 shots etc) until the provincial government introduced minimum pricing per unit in 2008.

I believe their claim was to curb binge drinking.

Pizzawheel May 28th 2015 1:59 am
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Originally Posted by Photoplex (Post 11658898)
Establishments were able to sell alcohol dirt cheap in Alberta (specials such as 25c draught beer, $1 shots etc) until the provincial government introduced minimum pricing per unit in 2008.

I believe their claim was to curb binge drinking.
I never knew that. And if I had, it wouldn't be a Scarberian flag fluttering in my profile.

Photoplex May 28th 2015 2:16 am
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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel (Post 11659253)
I never knew that. And if I had, it wouldn't be a Scarberian flag fluttering in my profile.
Alas, it would have been "Formerly Proud Calgarian" as now you need to mortgage a kidney to get a 12oz sleeve of beer.

Pizzawheel May 28th 2015 3:22 am
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I expect Toronto will try to amalgamate everything eventually. In the name of the Borg.


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