Don't get me wrong, this is probably the classiest liquor store in the country. It's huge, has a good selection, helpful staff and it's in an old train station which is pretty cool.
I have a love/hate relationship with this place. It's the closest liquor store to where I live which is way too far. I hate having to make almost an hour long roundtrip journey just to buy a bottle of Moosehead when I live in the middle of Toronto.
Also, the fact that you can't buy any alcohol (except at a usually overpriced bar) after 9 or 10pm is just ridiculous. Manitoba's system is nowhere near perfect, but you can at least buy beer at a few places until 2 a.m.
I do NOT support the government monopoly on liquor sales. I've spent too much time in the States to realize independent liquor sales aren't a bad thing. It's fine that there are government stores, but why can't ma and pa make some money off it too?