If you're a drinker from Toronto, you paid for all three of the taxpayer waste stories featured today at NationalNewsWatch.com: parties by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario with a big alcohol tab, a lobby group that got $250,000 from the federal government, and Toronto councilors who donate to causes on the taxpayer dime -- some say to buy votes. All in a day's work with your money.

• LCBO spent thousands wining, dining
  The Liquor Control Board of Ontario regularly knocked back champagne, liquor and pricey bottles of wine -- not always from Ontario -- while conducting meetings at the tony Toronto Club and Chiado restaurant.

• Lobby group takes flak over federal funds
  The head of a pro-asbestos lobby group says he will make good use of the $250,000 in taxpayers' money the Conservative government has committed to the group in the 2010 budget.
  
  
• Toronto councillors expense thousands on donations that boost their profile