Toronto council approves alcohol in parks pilot | Winnipeg Free Press
Toronto council approves alcohol in parks pilot | Winnipeg Free Press
Toronto residents will be allowed to consume alcohol in a select number of parks in the coming months after city council approved a time-limited pilot program. The pilot project will run from Aug. 2 t...
About time.
I should be hollering this to the rafters, maybe conservative freedom-lovers will just absolutely love Olivia Chow now for the beer in parks.
I was over in Christie Pits the other day, people were already enjoying beers and other stuff without anything crazy happening.
It'll be an interesting pilot, at least.
I am sure this will end well
Me too, but non ironically.
It's going very well in Montreal.
Explain.
It's going very well in Vancouver and most of its suburbs.
They said no tickets have been issued in 2023 for illegal drinking in parks.
LOL. Because people are boozing out of their water bottles and plastic/paper cups. Amateur officers need to try harder.
City officials have said the proposed program is based on “public health guidance, public safety and operational considerations and the experiences of other Canadian cities.”
Right. If it was about HEALTH and SAFETY, they'd keep alcohol out of publoc areas. Absolutely zero reason to encourage public drinking.
Laws won’t stop people drinking and causing a nuisance. They won’t drink more now because it’s legal.
But now I can go to the park and have a beer with some friends after work. Sadly I can’t afford to rent somewhere with a back yard, public parks other areas are an important part of the collective public health, and cracking a cold one at the same time, well, no complaints here.
Whether people decide to drink despite laws is not the issue, since you can't force the stupid out of someone (but we can certainly at least try to enforce those laws). The real problem is the normalization of alcohol consumption in a public space, and I think it's just plain wrong.
Parks are a family space. Keep alcohol in bars or at home.
The harm has been studied extensively, so if it really were about health and safety, council would have voted differently.