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The Ontario government will expand beer and wine sales to corner, grocery and big box stores, the throne speech confirms.

“Your new government will respect consumers and trust adults to make the responsible choices that work best for them,” Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell said Thursday, reading from the throne speech prepared by Premier Doug Ford’s PC government.

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Warren “Smokey” Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, predicted it will be long time before consumers can buy alcohol in corner stores.

The speech says the government will also respect parents, teachers and students by dumping “failed ideological experiments in the classroom with tried and true methods that work.”

The government has already put the new sex-ed curriculum on ice and will ditch the “failed experimental discovery math” program children are taught in Ontario schools.

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The sex-ed curriculum will be replaced with one that is based on “real” consultations with parents, the speech says.