Two foreign companies control almost 90 percent of Canada’s beer market. On the shortlist of Canadian stereotypes, beer ranks right up there with hockey and excellent manners. But the three biggest Canadian-owned brewing companies in recent memory – Molson, Labatt and Sleeman – were all purchased by larger multinational corporations in the last two decades.
I originally pitched the idea for this supplement as an excuse to drink for an entire week and call it a work expense. I make no apologies for this; Toronto Beer Week gave me one of the few socially acceptable opportunities to have alcohol for breakfast, and I wasn’t going to refuse.
The Porsche screeched to a halt, dipping its hood deep down into the pavement and throwing my head for- ward so fast my nose nearly touched the dashboard.
Stopping like that – from 80 km/h to zero in mere seconds – can give you a serious case of whiplash.
