In the week of Feb. 17, the Ontario government announced it was setting aside plans for the expansion of LCBO kiosks in future grocery store test markets. It has caused a row with critics because in April 2014, the expansion plans were previously announced by that same Wynne government. For years, the LCBO privatization debate has ebbed and flowed in the public discourse. There are those who would love to see the Quebec or American style models, so let's take stock of Ontario's liquor situation.

Founders Heidi Noble and Michael Dinn have divorced, and Dinn has sold his interest in the winery to Noble. Based on an amusing photo that accompanied the press release and comments by the two founders, the split was amicable.

The bud-killing January 2014 freeze left most local vineyards without grapes this summer and this winter's extended cold weather has winemakers here worried again.

the British Columbia Fruit Growers' Association, analyzed the region's vineyards and grape production

As Canada's wine market grows, Californian producers are trying to make sure they secure access.

A new Vinexpo report into wine consumption showed that demand for wine in Canada far outstrips what the local industry can provide and consumption is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the world

The Vancouver International Wine Festival turns 37 next week, and having attended all of them I can say it's a special week for all wine drinkers. I have to say I admire the winery people who make the trek to B.C. and, maybe most of all, the unbridled enthusiasm shown by the public along with their thirst - figuratively and literally - for wine.

A strategy is needed to improve market access and expand food exports, says trade official

One-kilometre rule means all 12 are too close to an existing private liquor store

Consumption of imported wines, particularly from the New World, rose in Canada during 2014 with per capita consumption now outpacing the US.

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot

Premier Kathleen Wynne is putting on hold a plan to set up liquor store outlets in select grocery stores, saying it doesn't make sense to continue with the "isolated plan" as the government considers other changes to Ontario's alcohol distribution system.

IWSR ranked Canada's US$6.1 billion wine market as being the seventh largest in the world

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot

Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government has put a cork on its pilot project for supermarket LCBO kiosks because the planned reform of beer, wine, and spirit sales in Ontario has widened.

B.C. wine sales topped $1 billion in 2014 for the first time and that spending is expected to increase, according to an international alcohol research organization.

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot.

The announced change was a reduction in the second tier "liquor board markup" from 67% under the old formula to 27% under the new one ... a significant change of 40 percentage points

Monday, the World Trade Organization will start hearing the U.S. appeal of its decision that says the labelling legislation violates trade agreements among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Canada's agriculture minister is threatening tariffs on California wine if the U.S. doesn't repeal restrictive meat-labelling laws costing our farmers billions