{"id":7941,"date":"2011-02-23T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T20:03:02","slug":"ontario-actually-considers-liberalizing-some-liquor-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/ontario-actually-considers-liberalizing-some-liquor-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario actually considers liberalizing (some) liquor laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a rare, rare thing for the Ontario government to consider any kind of liberalization, but especially one involving booze<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Could Ontario be saying good-bye to beer tents? The province\u2019s government announced on Wednesday that it would be asking for public input on a series of possible liquor law changes.<\/p>\n

Some of the changes considered would include relaxing the liquor laws at events and festivals, meaning drinkers would no longer be sequestered in beer tents, but could wander with a drink in hand.<\/p>\n

It would also allow one-off event permit holders — weddings, parties and fundraisers, for example — to serve booze until 2 a.m., bringing their serving hours into line with bars. Current laws require special occasion permit holders stop serving alcohol at 1 a.m., with the exception of New Year\u2019s Eve, when it\u2019s 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don’t hold your breath — this is still bluestockinged Ontario — but just the idea that they’re willing to discuss<\/em> changes is heartening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a rare, rare thing for the Ontario government to consider any kind of liberalization, but especially one involving booze: Could Ontario be saying good-bye to beer tents? The province\u2019s government announced on Wednesday that it would be asking for public input on a series of possible liquor law changes. Some of the changes considered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,84,9],"tags":[104,660,87],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","tag-booze","tag-deregulation","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-245","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7943,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/7943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}