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So we had our biannual staff lunch at a decent Italian restaurant in a strip mall near campus, at the far north-west reaches of Toronto, and it was the usual strip mall for that part of the world, featuring Lebanese jewelry and Korean dry cleaning and Iranian videos and Ecuadoran Western Union. But in the corner of the strip was a storefront with shades pulled down in front of its big picture windows, and a sign mostly in Cyrillic. The only words I could understand were the phrase "SPIRIT WINE," in big red sans-serif Roman letters. It wasn't a liquor store - no LCBO symbol on it anywhere - so what do you think it was?