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Canada and the US Are Having a Bar Fight Over Bourbon

Plus: Alberta has some pipeline maps

No (American) booze for you at Ontario’s liquor stores. Not until we get a new trade deal, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday.Photographer: Christopher Katsarov Luna/Bloomberg

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By Christine Dobby

April 22, 2026 at 9:30 PM UTC

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If you were following all the posturing on the Canada-US trade file today, you wouldn’t be alone in feeling like you need a drink. But if you’re in Ontario, that drink will not be a California pinot noir or a Kentucky bourbon.