When you mix the Trailer Park Boys and whisky, what could go wrong? The Ontario government is taking a second look at plans to start selling the east coast comedy troupe’s rye — Liquormen’s Ol’ Dirty Canadian Whisky — at LCBO stores across the province on Thursday. While bottles have been sold in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and elsewhere for over a year, the whisky’s cheeky website has raised eyebrows here over its liberal use of the f-word and advice to start drinking before 10 a.m. with a “six-paper joint” of marijuana. Word of the online marketing campaign, which includes a drink called the Heavy Metal D---, caught Premier Kathleen Wynne by surprise Monday. “I didn’t know about this,” she told reporters when asked about the website at a news conference on hospital parking rates. “None of that sounds particularly savoury to me . . . and dangerous in a lot of ways.”
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today slammed Prime Minister Trudeau’s pledge to impose a rising national ‘floor price’ which could result in the average Canadian family paying $2,593 per year in new taxes by 2022. Aaron Wudrick joins the show to explain. Navigating the bureaucracy of developing new housing in Toronto costs twice as much as it does in Hamilton, a new Fraser Institute survey of home builders and developers has found.The survey asked people in the industry questions including how long it takes them to get projects approved and how much it costs to comply with regulations in 23 municipalities covering the greater Golden Horseshoe region.
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