Poverty, homelessness, inequality: a few causes that might outweigh cheaper beer

Ontario faces a lot more serious choices on problems affecting millions of its residents than beer prices.

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader and Premier Doug Ford, pictured with Sun newspaper columnist Anthony Furey at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Feb. 10, announced plans to encourage brewers to make cheaper beer last week.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA—Populism scrambles a lot of markers, so maybe nobody cares that Ontario Premier Doug Ford is making a big deal, using government promotional incentives no less, to prioritize in the early days of his administration a possible slight decrease in what Ontarians pay for beer. It’s an amateu...

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