
Prince Albert limits liquor store hours
Liquor stores in the City of Prince Albert will no longer be allowed to open before 10 a.m. and must close at 11 pm.
Council passed third reading of the bylaw making the change at their regular meeting on Monday night, a change that has been pushed for by the local Community Alcohol Strategy Steering Committee for years.
“When people are buying alcohol at two in the morning or three in the morning, it’s not as if the party is just starting or they’re going to join with their friends and have a drink or two,” said Brian Howell, one of the committee members.
“In the worlds I’ve inhabited, it’s because the party has been going on way too long and it’s gonna never stop, you know, and you see incidences of violence occur.”