Advocates of warning labels want Canadians to understand that alcohol is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen and one of the top causes of preventable cancer.

Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario, ran one of the only real-world experiments of cancer warning labels on alcohol in Yukon in 2017. She's pictured in Ottawa in October 2022.

Several countries around the world, including the U.K., U.S.A., Sweden and France among others have varying sizes, styles, and degrees of obligatory and voluntary warning labels on alcohol products.

But Jeff Guignard, executive director with the Alliance of Beverage Licensees in B.C., says labels are "irritating for consumers" and they don't work, noting that the tobacco industry still makes ...

In 2017, Yukon affixed warning labels to alcohol products as part of a federally funded study. The labels were used for a month before backlash from alcohol brands led to their removal.

In 2017, public health researchers and the Yukon government agreed to test cancer warning labels on all alcohol containers in the government-owned liquor store in Whitehorse. But less than a month ...