Crack open the Baja Rosa and Goldschläger: Earlier this week Attorney General Suzanne Anton announced that B.C.’s notoriously outdated and anal liquor laws will get a little less outdated, though still remain fairly anal, as of April 1, 2015. That’s when government-run liquor stores will be permitted to open on Sundays, with longer hours, and can offer chilled products that are actually refrigerated as opposed to room temperature cans of Kokanee that merely look like they were carved out of a wicked glacier. Grocery stores will also be allowed to sell delicious booze but only if they are at least 10,000 square feet in size, can prove that 75 per cent of their sales are from food products and are located more than one kilometre away from a current liquor store. Oh yeah, and they’ll be required to sell their alcohol separately in a store within the grocery store rather than letting customers purchase their groceries and drinky-drinks at the same time like most civilized societies. Because apparently that would make too much sense and British Columbian adults are still babies.
