Following this year’s devastating loss of grapes, B.C. wineries will benefit from temporary support that will allow B.C. wines to be made with grapes and grape juice from outside of the province for the 2024 vintage year.

Kispiox First Nation and the Province of B.C. have reached an agreement supporting Kispiox’s interests in the cannabis economy.

Cannabis consumers have greater access to safer, legal non-medical cannabis now that licensed retailers have additional ways to deliver products directly to customers.

In keeping with its commitment to develop a robust and diverse legal cannabis economy in B.C. that is inclusive of rural and Indigenous communities, the Province is launching the B.C. Indigenous Cannabis Product (BCICP) program.

Cowichan Tribes and the Province of British Columbia have made permanent a government-to-government agreement that supports participation in cannabis production and sale.

The number of licensee retail stores (LRSs) in B.C. will not grow for another decade under a moratorium extension meant to protect public health and providing certainty for the liquor industry.

Testing of cannabis seized from illicit retailers in B.C. has found that many samples contained contaminants that would not be allowed in the legal cannabis market.

In an otherwise bad-news year, I’d like to share something positive: no matter how you get around, 2019 was, by many measures, the safest time to be on B.C.’s roads in years.