March 23, 2012 LBED Surveys Convenience Store Owners on Beer and Wine
Sales. Last October, the Ontario Convenience Stores Association lobbied the
parties to allow beer and wine sales in corner stores. Members were concerned
that this was another effort to privatize beer and wine sales in Ontario. The
LBED Anti-Privatization Committee responded by hiring a polling company to
conduct a survey of convenience store owners.
Click here
to view the full survey
In 2005, the McGuinty government promised to keep the LCBO public. On April
3, 2007, Premier McGuinty said selling beer and wine in corner stores would make
it easier for kids to buy alcohol. So why are the government and the LCBO
opening more private agency stores that sell alcohol in grocery stores,
convenience stores and other private businesses?
Avoid Agency Stores!
There are more than 200 LCBO Agency Stores in the province –
most of them in southern Ontario. LBED members encourage consumers to avoid
Agency Stores if at all possible. For a complete list of communities where
Agency Stores are located click here
Watch LBED’s anti-Agency Store video on YouTube
Agency stores short-change Ontario communities. They
don’t provide the same level of service and selection as a real LCBO store. They
increase the risk of sales to kids and people who are intoxicated. And they cost
the provincial government millions in lost revenue.
June 20, 2010 Public sector trade unionists from across Canada have pledged their full support in OPSEU's fight to stop the sell-off of Ontario Crown corporations by the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty
more...
May 12, 2010Echo Newsletter for OPSEU members of the
LCBO Issue 32 LBED prepared to fight Premier’s plans on possible
privatization; everyone’s a winner with casual benefits; Region 1 health and
safety activists meet more....
McGuinty takes wrong turn on asset sales
December 23, 2009 Hugh Mackenzie, Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says in today’s Toronto Star that the sale of Crown assets such as the LCBO does nothing to address whatever long-term fiscal issues Ontario faces. more...
Don't sell the LCBO, Steelworker economist says
December 17, 2009"Why should the
government give up $3 of annual revenue to save $1 of annual
interest costs?" Erin Weir, economist for the United
Steelworkers, weighs in on the idea of privatizing the Liquor
Control Board of Ontario.
more...
Stop talk of LCBO privatization
December 17, 2009 Premier McGuinty should put
an immediate end to speculation the LCBO may be sold off to help
balance the provincial budget
more...
Help Wanted: LBED needs your support to bring home the money!
November
24, 2009 In small communities across the Province of
Ontario, the government has licensed store owners to operate liquor and
beer outlets called Agency Stores, which are disguised as Real LCBOs. more…
Mount Albert Wants a Real LCBO!
January 26, 2009 News Release In a deputation to
East Gwillimbury Town Council today LBED chair Vanda Klumper called on Queen’s
Park to order the LCBO to replace a privately-owned ‘agency’ kiosk in Mount
Albert with a real, full-service LCBO
more...
March 29, 2007 - LCBO
Agency Store Repatriation: A Financial
Analysis - Consultant's report on
financial benefits of replacing private
agency stores with real LCBO outlets.
more...
March 29, 2007 - Agency
store list: 89 private agency stores
that should be replaced with real LCBO
stores.
more...
March 29, 2007 - Who's selling
alcohol in your town? Facts about
the LCBO, private "agency stores"
and Ontario communities.
more...
March 29,
2007 - News
Release:
McGuinty government losing millions through
private LCBO agency stores. more...
March 29,
2007 - LCBO Agency Store Repatriation: A
Financial Analysis
- Consultant's report on financial benefits of
replacing private agency stores with real LCBO
outlets.
more...
March
29, 2007 - Agency store list: 89
private agency stores that should be replaced
with real LCBO stores.
more...
March 29, 2007 - Who's selling alcohol in your town?
Facts about the LCBO, private "agency
stores" and Ontario communities.
more...
November 30, 2006
Taking it to the streets. Photos from the LBED day of action on
agency stores
November 23, 2006 OPSEU Day of Action Nov. 24
targets "back-door privatization" of LCBO
November 23, 2006
Kids & Booze – Who’s Minding the Store? OPSEU
pamphlet on private agency stores, the risks to our
kids and our communities - and how you can help.
November 23, 2006
Our LCBO – Let’s Keep It Public! Send a postcard
to Dalton McGuinty. To pick up a postcard, contact
your OPSEU steward or regional office.
November 22, 2006
The Echo: Issue
#10 Day of Action set for Nov.
24 to launch agency stores campaign
October 6, 2006
The Echo: Issue #9
Agency stores campaign aims to halt '”privatization
through the back door.”
September 5, 2006
Protecting the Public Interest: The Threat of
Privatization and the LCBO’s Agency Store Program.
OPSEU submission to the Standing Committee on
Government Agencies.
June 2, 2006 Ontario Public
Health Association opposes government's plan to open 20 new
agency stores.
May 19, 2006
Open letter to the acting chair of LCBO on the
expansion of agency stores.
May 15, 2006
OPSEU calls for a moratorium on new LCBO agency
stores as government announces 20 new private stores
to sell alcohol across Ontario.
More information on the serious risks of alcohol privatization:
Our LCBO -
Let's Keep it Public!
November
24, 2009
