Tuesday November 25 2014
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▲ Surrey band Good For Grapes wins Peak Performance Project and $100K 3
WOMAN KILLED IN NEWTON HOME
▶ HUSBAND ARRESTED
IN SUSPECTED DOMESTIC HOMICIDE KEVIN DIAKIW
▶ MELLOW YELLOW Dorado, an 11-month-old golden retriever, yawns as he is petted by students at SFU Surrey last Tuesday morning. Dorado was one of four dogs from Pacific Assistance Dogs Society brought to the university to help the students take a break from studying and relieve stress. EVAN SEAL
A woman is dead and her husband is in police custody in an apparent domestic homicide in east Newton. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is investigating the death of a woman who was killed in a home in the 6900-block of 152 Street on Sunday, Nov. 23. The victim was found unresponsive at about 1 p.m. Her husband was arrested at the scene. IHIT spokesperson Jennifer Pound said the woman and her husband – who had not been formally charged as of The Leader’s press deadline Monday – are both in their 60s. Pound said the couple is not known to police. For updates, visit surreyleader. com
BIG CHANGES IN BOOZE BUSINESS ▶ ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS ‘LEVEL PLAYING FIELD’ FOR B.C. LIQUOR STORES
TOM FLETCHER
B.C. government liquor stores are losing their wholesale price advantage next spring, but will also have the option of opening Sundays and evenings with chilled offerings to help them compete
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with private stores. The change to a single wholesale price for every product takes effect April 1, the same date B.C. is permitting private or government liquor sales in separate facilities inside grocery stores. Attorney General Suzanne Anton said the change is to create a “level playing field” for liquor retailing in B.C., after private store operators complained that the existing system gave government stores an unfair price advantage. Currently the Liquor Distribution
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Branch, the government monopoly wholesaler, sells products to government stores at cost and sets a minimum price for all retailers. The wholesale price for private retail stores is 16 per cent less than that retail price, rural agency stores pay 12 per cent less, and stores that sell only B.C. wine get a 30 per cent discount. A new wholesale price structure for the thousands of products sold in liquor stores will be the same for all retailers, set to retain the $1 billion in revenues the province takes in annually from liquor sales. Anton
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said she doesn’t expect substantial changes in retail prices. The B.C. Government Employees Union, representing government liquor store staff, welcomed the Sunday openings and increased hours to help their stores compete. “The move to a single wholesale price will only be in the public interest if it protects and expands over time provincial revenue,” said BCGEU president Stephanie Smith. continued on page 2
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