Earlier this year we posted a discussion on our beer historical blog that showed how the Canadian excise regime from the 1870s until 1952 favoured the brewing of all-malt beer in Canada. In practise that meant most beer was made from a mash of 100% barley malt. This varied from...

We blog actively on our other site, www.beeretseq.com, where we talk about beer, other drinks, and food, often from a historical or industry aspect. See this post today giving a “high-level” review of the new draft rules defining beer circulated by the government...

As part of our beverage alcohol regulatory practice, we keep abreast of industry developments in brewing, distilling, winemaking, and related fields. In this regard, we had a short piece this month in Calgary Metro, a daily print and digital commuter newspaper in...

The 9.09% blending rule in Canadian law is frequently the subject of discussion by consumer beverage alcohol writers and online by all types of whisky enthusiasts. One still reads different ideas and theories about the rule, and often the information conveyed is not correct or...

See Gary Gillman’s article in today’s (June 3, 2016) National Post on the New Brunswick Comeau decision at http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/gary-gillman-the-comeau-case-is-not-quite-a-game-changer.

Please see my new article posted today in the Publications section of this website regarding an important new New Brunswick court decision on liquor regulation.

Gary delivered a presentation at the Master Brewers Association of Canada Annual Conference on January 28, 2016  on Recent Legal Developments Pertaining to the Beer Industry in Ontario. It was very well-received with many questions from the floor. His presentation is...

Today we include in the Publications section of this website an article Gary authored called Contract Brewing – Selected Legal Considerations.  The article canvasses numerous legal considerations of importance to anyone who has concluded, or is thinking of concluding, an...

Today we draw attention to a full-length piece Gary authored on the new Canada-EU economic trade agreement, the most in-depth bilateral trade deal every negotiated by Canada.  You can find it here.

Prompted by my own reflections the other day to think further on the relationship between non-disclosure obligations under the typical “NDA” and non-competition obligations sought to be included in the same agreement  (outside the context of sale-of-business or...