Manitoba Premier Kinew asks Ontario counterpart Ford to rethink Crown Royal boycott

Ontarians toasting Doug Ford’s Crown Royal ban, poll suggests

Ford has vowed to stop selling the popular Manitoba-made rye at Ontario liquor stores after U.K.-based Diageo shutters its Amherstburg bottling factory near Windsor next month, which will cost about 200 jobs.

Manitoba’s Kinew Urges Ford to Reconsider Ontario’s Upcoming Crown Royal Ban

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is urging Premier Doug Ford to abandon his plans for a boycott of Crown Royal whisky in Ontario liquor stores, saying such a move will hurt jobs in Manitoba. “I’m calling on Premier Ford to stop his plan when it comes to LCBO taking Crown off the shelves,” Kinew said during a Jan. 13 press conference outside the Gimli, Man., plant operated by spirits giant Diageo. The plant north of Winnipeg, where the whisky is mashed…

Why two Canadian provinces are in a spat over Crown Royal whisky

The UK-owned, Canadian-made whisky is testing a united "Team Canada" approach in the face of US tariffs.

Manitoba Premier Kinew asks Ontario counterpart Ford to rethink Crown Royal boycott

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew called on Ontario Premier Doug Ford Tuesday to drop plans for a boycott of Crown Royal whisky, and wrote Ford's name on a barrel outside the plant north of Winnipeg where some of the whisky is mashed, distilled and aged.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew urges Doug Ford not to pull Crown Royal from Ontario shelves

Manitoba's premier called on Doug Ford to "do a 180" and not follow through with plans to stop selling Crown Royal in Ontario.

Kinew asks Ford to reconsider Crown Royal boycott in Ontario

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