Canada is sobering up, quietly but progressively. Ontario’s latest LCBO annual report offers a remarkably honest portrait of a province — and indeed a country — entering a new era of alcohol consumption. The topline conclusion is unmistakable: Canadians are drinking less. Not sporadically, not because of a temporary shock, but as part of a sustained behavioural shift driven by economics, demographics, social norms, and increasingly, the availability of legal cannabis as a substitute.
Smokey bars are a fond memory of the long ago past for me. They became a lot less inviting when smoking was banned.
Costs are steep nowadays I understand, I recall when 40 bucks meant a pretty good evening on the town.
Of course I also remember when a six pack cost two bucks.
I sometimes find myself nostalgic for those many nights I can’t remember.
