this girl drives a tank

liquor is quicker

In Ontario, one can buy beer only from the Beer Store retail outlets. The Beer Store is owned by the 3 largest breweries but is heavily regulated by our government. Liquor, wine and spirits however are sold in a separate chain of stores known as the LCBO. The LCBO is allowed to sell beer, but you cannot return the empty bottles there. The Beer Store is not allowed to sell liquor, but you can return empty liquor bottles to the Beer Store.

To add to this confusion, many Beer Stores and LCBO's keep different hours of operation, some stores close at 8pm, others 9pm and some are open until 11pm.

My proposal would be to do away with one of the retailers and be left with one chain of stores, The Drinking Store perhaps, where you can buy anything and return any kind of bottle and the hours are uniform province-wide. Unfortunately no body in charge listens to my proposals.

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Photographer Gregory Colbert's latest exhibition is quite beautiful.. He introduces the concept of `animal copyright' whereby advertisers who use animals should somehow compensate nature. I am not holding my breath that this sentiment will catch on, but it is a nice idea.