Outrage Over Minimum Pricing and Unhappy Hour

Beer drinkers like you and the media have really spoken out against the government for their mishandling of the (one would think) easy concept of happy hour.
We’ve had no response from Doug Scott, John Yap or Suzanne Anton (or anyone from the government), I guess they are just hoping we’ll go away if they ignore us, but they can’t ignore us all!

Here are some of the articles and clips that have turned up since Friday:

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/sobering-details-part-of-b-c-liquor-laws-overhaul-1.1880454

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bcs-happy-hour-forces-some-pubs-to-raise-prices/article19285431/

http://www.biv.com/article/20140620/BIV0106/140629989/-1/BIV/happy-hour-begins-in-bc-minimum-drink-price-starts-at-3

http://metronews.ca/news/victoria/1074213/b-c-s-happy-hour-hard-to-swallow-for-some/

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/06/happy-hour-introduced-in-b-c-but-minimum-pricing-now-highest-in-canada/

http://www.canadianbeernews.com/2014/06/23/b-c-government-slammed-over-new-minimum-drink-pricing-rules/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unhappy-hour-comes-to-b-c-pubs-that-must-now-raise-prices-1.2683595

https://soundcloud.com/cknwnewstalk980/simi-sara-thu-july-3-new-happy

http://fairchildtv.com/news.php?n=80418728f131ff0a2b48614529fbf9f3

http://globalnews.ca/news/1431177/unhappy-hour-in-b-c-some-bars-forced-to-raise-prices/

http://barleymowat.com/2014/07/04/why-you-should-complain-about-unhappyhour/

Chart showing minimum beer pricing across Canada http://ow.ly/i/685qO

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/06/23/join-campaign-to-fix-happy-hour

https://www.facebook.com/FixBCHappyHour

http://eastsidebeer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/open-letter-to-suzanne-anton-john-yap.html

http://eastsidebeer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/43-price-hike-does-not-sound-like-happy.html

 http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/06/24/BC-Screwed-Up-Happy-Hour/

John Yap responds http://globalnews.ca/video/1432656/unhappy-hour-in-b-c

http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/owners+minimum+booze+pricing+threat+their+business/9994849/story.html

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/06/20/happy-hour-finally-comes-to-b-c/

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/06/24/beer-drinkers-protest-b-c-s-happy-hour-price-hike/

http://www.wevancouver.com/news/read-beer-advocacy-group-s-letter-to-bc-liberals-1.1190654#sthash.dyxcGJBr.gbpl


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