Small breweries across Canada say a proposed Senate law forcing cancer warning labels on alcohol would saddle them with massive costs and needless red tape.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Bill S-202, introduced in the Senate as an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act, would require all alcohol products to display health warnings about the risks of consumption.
There is a burning mass of hydrogen and helium, with core temperatures of up to 15 million C, blasting radiation across cities and towns in Canada.
It’s the sun. And, if we pay enough attention to Environment Canada and many of our nation’s broadcasters, we might be inclined to believe that our life-giving star is actually trying to kill us all.
New temperance movement wants alcohol to be treated like tobacco
What constitutes a safe level of drinking? For some activist-academics there is none – and they are loudly lobbying for alcohol to be treated like tobacco in official US health advice.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are under review and will be updated this year. Currently they recommend moderation: two drinks or less in a day for men and one drink or less in a day for women. Pressure, however, is being applied for a new recommendation: no safe level.
This week, UK prime minister Keir Starmer pledged to make communities safer by putting more police officers on the streets at certain times of day. This forms part of the Labour government’s wider plan to intervene more forcefully in community life, including bringing in so-called Respect Orders to clamp down on the ever more broadly defined category of ‘anti-social behaviour’.
Telling someone to “Speak English” is considered a hate crime in England.
You must say “Speak clearly.” Keep this in mind if you’re headed to the UK. pic.twitter.com/PB8KQ7hqfI
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 13, 2025
My recently published research into the U.K. Government’s deployment of behavioural science strategies – ‘nudges’ – leads to a startling conclusion: in every sphere of daily life, our thoughts and actions are being psychologically manipulated so as to align them with what the state’s technocrats have deemed to be in our best interests. It seems that open, transparent debate is no longer considered necessary.
How did my nation, a purported beacon of freedom and democracy, descend to such a position? While there have been multiple participants in this journey into behavioural science-fuelled authoritarianism, a historical review of the key players indicates that American scholars have contributed in crucial ways to this trajectory.
Britain’s nanny-state policymakers seem intent on punishing those on lower incomes. Over and over again, they cast snobbish judgement on the eating and drinking habits of poorer Brits. Policies such as sugar, alcohol and tobacco taxes disproportionately target working-class people.
In the third and last comment in this space about the eager and oppressive overreach of organizations that monitor and govern our learned professions and skilled trades and crafts, I cannot resist giving suitable attention to the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB). The portentous title of this organization, which governs the accounting profession in Canada, rightly incites fear of an effective reign of terror visited upon accountants.
Looks like we all need to drink less alcohol.
Last fall, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), a national organization that provides information and advice on substance use and addiction, shared recommendations that we should all drink no more than one or two drinks a week. We just learned that these are now Canada’s official guidelines.
Nanny Staters are just that stupid.
In Canada, it should be Dry January all year round, according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.
If you must drink at all, two drinks maximum each week is deemed low-risk by the government-backed guidance.
The advice is a steep drop from the previous recommendation, published in 2011.
Those guidelines allowed a maximum of 10 drinks a week for women and 15 drinks for men.
We need a party that will rid us of government.
Canada’s alcohol industry is pushing back against a call for mandatory warning labels on booze containers as suggested in new guidance that also greatly limits the recommended amount Canadians should be drinking.
CJ Helie, president of Beer Canada, said the industry is voluntarily informing people to drink responsibly so there’s no need for any labels.
I’m not sure there’s as much to worry about as ranchers and the Alberta government think there is. Still, it’s the principle of the thing.
Ottawa wants to stick preachy new labels on the front of ground beef packages warning that the contents are unhealthy. (And Health Canada means unhealthy to eat even after it’s cooked, not just raw, which we all already know.)
But it’s barbecue season. It’s getting hot out.
Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.
Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett says the measure is meant to reach more people, including youth who often share cigarettes and don’t encounter the packaging.
A 75-day consultation period is to begin tomorrow.
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