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Posted: Feb 08, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 8
The bar at the Woodcutter s Blanket, a brewpub in Whitehorse, pictured on June 19, 2020.(Steve Silva/CBC) comments
Liquor sales by Yukon s main liquor retailer and sole wholesaler barely changed last year.
In 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the Yukon Liquor Corporation (YLC) made $47.7 million in gross sales, which amounts to a 0.14 per cent increase from the year before.
In 2019, sales went up by $1.4 million, a three per cent increase from 2018 a normal trajectory for the growing territory, according to John Streicker, the territorial government s minister responsible for the YLC.
The last three years sales numbers, procured by the CBC through a public records request, follow a relatively similar monthly pattern except for, mainly, the summer of 2020.