An 80% tax on spirits — and the federal government wants more?

 By: Jan Westcott, President & CEO of Spirits Canada Finance Minister Morneau’s new “escalator” tax on alcohol, set to increase automatically on April first each year, is unwarranted, punitive for consumers, and deadly for the Canadian spirits industry.  For 200 years, Canadian distillers have proudly produced world-class spirits including gin,

What Minister Lebouthillier Doesn’t Know About Diabetes.

 When my son was 14 he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It came out of nowhere. It was the long weekend before Labour Day; he was about to start grade 10. That summer he had an adolescent growth spurt. When a colleague met him that summer he jokingly asked