Posts Tagged: Canada
Politics, Pubs, Leadership and Density
Posted by on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 in - leave a comment
Interesting observation in the Montreal Gazette today about why it is that the two-dimensional Pub Minister and other cynical forms of political band wagoning over the pub trade has gotten such attention in UK election: • Few commentators question the need to help out a sector of the economy … read more »
The Women Every Real Canadian Male Has A Crush On...
Posted by on Friday, February 26, 2010 in - 4 comments
Truth be told, every Canadian male has a deep and abiding crush on every member of the woman's hockey team and photos of them drinking beer just feed the flame. We have commercials where the players kick doltish men like us all on the ice. They sell us social networking tech. While we have to work …
An Olympics And Beer Story That Makes Some Sense
Posted by on Friday, February 26, 2010 in - 16 comments
I still wonder what the average Latvian thinks about all this but at least this story makes a little more sense than needing to shut public booze sales and politicians drunk driving. Yet the International Olympic Committee is not amused: • Nearly an hour after the Canadians won their third …
Question: What Beer For Canada Against Russia?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 in - 3 comments
There are few phrases more evocative for a Canadian of my early middle age than "Canada Russia". • When I was nine I heard the final game of the 1972 series broadcast from Moscow on the car radio sitting in a parking lot in Middleton, NS. We won. We were not always successful in the … read more »
Further Olympic Related Drinking Problems
Posted by on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 in - 5 comments
It is inevitable, I suppose, that folks get all whipped up and excited when the big event comes to their town but this is getting a little weird: • A B.C. government MLA is facing drunk-driving charges after an evening of Olympic-related events. In statement issued Tuesday afternoon, North …
Olympic Celebrations One Big Binge-o-rama
Posted by on Sunday, February 21, 2010 in - 5 comments
Call the Neo-probes! Athletic competitions now proven to lead to binge drinking as Vancouver struggles to keep up with drunk jet setting gangs of cow bell ringers and fans of third-rate curlering nations. Jet setting Olympic public boozing is apparently something we are very good at in Canada …
Have The Olympics Turned Me Off Beer Evangelizing?
Posted by on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in - 6 comments
While I think Pete makes a very good point about most people really not caring much about the quality or even qualities of what they drink, the news out of Vancouver has me wondering about whether I might ever go out to drink with Canadians ever again: • If there ever was a reason for …
Are There Too Many Questions About What's Too Many?
Posted by on Thursday, January 21, 2010 in - 4 comments
Lots of talk around these days. Pete has posted his series on the media and stories about representing alcohol use in the UK. Jay has had a mirroring series that has been a theem for sometime. I am still not fully satisfied because, while Pete and Jay each have honestly shared past experience … read more »
Is Canada The Nation Best Built For Beer?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 in - 18 comments
I am having a nice glass of beer. Belgian beer as it turns out. I was trying to read Pete Brown's series on "Answering the Neo Prohibitionists" but I am reflecting on how nice it is to live in a country where there really isn't any organized political outcry against beer as in the UK or any shock …
The Government Store, Canada
Posted by on Monday, November 8, 2004 in - 4 comments
When I was a kid old O.H. Armstrong in our church called it the "Government Store". In the South Shore of Nova Scotia apparently it is called the "Power House". What ever you call them, there is a little left over from prohibition in every province in the country - the need to control...which also …
