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The last word on Canadian alcohol guidelines
By Steven | January 13, 2026
I’ve written to Dr Adam Shenk at the Canadian Centre for Substance and Addiction, which wrote the report containing new (two-drink) guidelines.
He says that while Health Canada commissioned the guidelines, it has not posted them or endorsed them. He says that, while there’s no formal process for endorsing them, “the inference is that whichever guidelines appear on Health Canada’s website are the guidelines recommended by Health Canada.” Those are the old ones (15/10).
I should also note that the CCSA report does not quite make “two-drink” recommendations. Dr Shenk: “It would be most correct to say that the 2-drink limit corresponds to the low-risk zone, but we nowhere recommend for people to reduce to only two drinks per week.”
So for my purposes, I’d conclude that the Media Council was right and my criticism below is not. Sorry, Media Council!
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