The good news: If you like to buy a beer, soon there will be more places to do it.

The bad news: It's going to be expensive.

Premier Doug Ford says alcohol sales will be expanded, with the rollout beginning this summer. The cost a $225-million payout to the Beer Store, plus hundreds of millions more in other costs, according to the opposition.

Ben Johnson, a local beer writer and the host of the Beer and Bulls%$t podcast joins Craig to share his thoughts.

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On this week's Friday Round Table, Craig is joined at the Covent Garden Market studio by Ward 11 councillor Skylar Franke, PhD candidate AJ Wray and former Green Party candidate Carol Dyck.

Among the topics is the city hall conversation surrounding gas powered lawn mower use after 6 p.m., office to housing conversions, the troubles with transit as west London develops and the potential hub on Wellington being shot down.

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The London Health Sciences Centre has a new acting President and CEO.

David Musyj, who had been President and CEO at Windsor Regional Hospital, is temporarily taking over the top job at LHSC in the midst of ongoing questions about the LHSC's travel scandal and the absence of CEO Jackie Schleifer Taylor.

What are Musyj's priorities? Why did the take on the London challenge?

He spoke with Craig to talk about the answers to those questions and other issues facing London's biggest hospital.

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