The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.
You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.
Shouldn’t be too hard to compete with Ontario brewers. We seem to only be able to make the same 3 or 4 craft beers in different packaging.
We’ve been sheltered from interprovincial competition, and our products have suffered for it.
I don’t like him because he self sabotaged electoral reform. Otherwise, he’s done OK. A bit of scandal here and there, but nothing too controversial. He’s no Lester B. Pearson, but he’s better than asshats like Harris.
Remember, you can always stay in your home country and fight for Canada through intentional gross incompetence:
My guess is that nobody wants a nazi-mobile, stock prices are crashing through the bedrock, and they need imaginary sales on the books to appear to be less of a radioactive hot potato.
I’m a big fan of Belgian style doubles, tripels and quads, which Quebec has quite a few brewers that make.
For macros, I like the Unibroue ones well enough, so Maudite and La Fin du Monde are a double and triple respectively.
For smaller brewers Les Trois Mousquetaires has a very nice Baltic Porter and Imperial Stout. Dieu du Ciel also has some nice stuff. They’ve actually had their imperial stout (Péché Mortel) in LCBO for a while already. Not sure how that works.
La Vache Folle make a really nice double IPA. I recall liking stuff by Le Castor Brewing Co too.
It’s honestly been a while since we’ve had many QC beers, so I’ve probably forgotten quite a few.
Could we get more Quebec beers back at LCBO please? That’d be a good start. Give me my Maudite and Fin back. >:(
I had a dumb thought: “My riding is very lopsided, I don’t really need to go out today, do I?”
OH, YES I DO. If anyone else thinks that way, then it makes my vote even more important/impactful, and you never know what’s going to happen.
(Also I can get some groceries on my way back. :)
Nah, you read me right. I’m absolutely ragging on Ontario beer, but ESPECIALLY so on LCBO.
You’re right, there are a few nice beers here and there. The pony sours are very nice. Left-field has some great stuff. Tooth and nail has had some fantastic colab beers, and their standard lineup is quite passable. But where are our Belgian style ales? Our west-coast style IPAs? Where are the Baltic porters and imperial stouts? I want a full bodied malty IPA. I want a double IPA with some seriously lacto funky notes, not just “this baby can fit so much hops”.
We’re just SO unadventurous, and I think a lot of it has to do with LCBO. I used to be able to get all that stuff, but selection has shrunk and shrunk.
Make Ontario craft work for their spot on the shelf. Too much protectionism is bad for consumers.