Tag: CAMRA Advocacy
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Our Wonderful Supporters
Over the last few months the CAMRA BC Executive has been discussing how the nature of the organisation has changed from a small group in Victoria to a thousand members all over the province actively engaged craft beer advocacy, education and promotion. We could not have done this without the support of wonderful corporate partners.…
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Beer in Supermarkets Could Be a Bad Thing?
John Yap again mentioned today in a press conference that the main recommendation coming from the Provincial Liquor Review would be booze in supermarkets. Naturally this is something that people in BC want and it seems crazy that it has been illegal for so long. If we look past the fact that they won’t be…
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CAMRA BC Liquor Review Meeting
This Morning I had a meeting with government representatives John Yap MLA, Ken Dawson and Suneil Karod to talk about the liquor issues that we feel require change. Joining me were a pair of heavyweight advocates CAMRA BC President Rick Green along newly minted CAMRA BC Powell River Branch President Paddy Treavor on flying visit.…
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Public Phase Launches
On Saturday the BC Government launched the “public phase” of the liquor review on their website. It allows everyone who wants to have an input the chance to air their views. It also features public letters from stakeholder groups with their suggestions and recommendations, CAMRA’s letter is on it’s way, we’ve had a great time…
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Legal Parity for All Alcohol
As most of you know the government of BC has begun the first public liquor consultation in almost 60 years and CAMRA BC is all over it. The consultation comes in 2 phases, the first was a letter to key industry people and stakeholder groups asking them if they want to make any suggestions on…
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Regulation Over Policy as Law
As most of you know the government of BC has begun the first public liquor consultation in almost 60 years and CAMRA BC is all over it. The consultation comes in 2 phases, the first was a letter to key industry people and stakeholder groups asking them if they want to make any suggestions on…
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Discretionary Pricing Coming to BC?
As most of you know the government of BC has begun the first public liquor consultation in almost 60 years and CAMRA BC is all over it. The consultation comes in 2 phases, the first was a letter to key industry people and stakeholder groups asking them if they want to make any suggestions on…
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Call to Action! Time for a Full Liquor Review!
The Election has been and gone and Premiere Clarke has announced her new cabinet, Minister Rich Coleman is no longer the Liquor Boss, instead former Vancouver City Councillor and Mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton has been named Attorney General and Justice Minister. However it is John Yap, MLA for Richmond-Steveston who has been made “Parliamentary Secretary…
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CAMRA BC at the Farmers Market
CAMRA BC – Vancouver Chapter have partnered with Vancouver Farmers Markets to use their community tables at 5 markets this summer. We’ve already done Kitsilano and the West End with Main Street (July 10th), Trout Lake (July 13th) and Kerrisdale (August 10th) still to come. Thanks to everyone who has come to see us and…
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FUSS Cards
Although we’ve been busy of late working on other advocacy issues we’ve not neglected any of our existing campaigns.
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Unanimous Support from Vancouver City Council
Today the movement to allow beer lounges in Vancouver took a big step forward thanks to a motion tabled by NPA Clr George Affleck which formalized the fact that the city zoning and licensing offices are working on a way to allow Beer Lounges in Vancouver.
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Growlers Saved?
Today I had the pleasure of visiting Rick Dellows at the R&B brewery in East Van along with the Paddy Treavor of the Van East Beer Blog, Nigel Springthorpe and Conrad Gmoser from Brassneck Brewing but it wasn’t a social call, we were there for an announcement from NDP liquor policy critic MLA Maurine Karagianis.
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Save the Growler Update – Your Say
I’ve been using the CAMRA website as a bit of a soapbox lately so I thought I would hand control over to you guys this week. Save the Growlers has really caught on (over 1700 signatures to date!) so here’s a selection of some of the comments that have come our way via the petition…
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CAMRA BC’s Visit to the Legislature March 11
Earlier this week CAMRA BC President Rick Green, Vice President Maureen Blaseckie and myself went to the BC Legislature in Victoria to meet with MLAs about some of CAMRA BC’s campaigns.
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CAMRA BC Opposed to Misguided Growler Tax
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2013 CAMRA BC Opposed to Misguided Growler Tax
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Save The Growler!
The craft beer explosion in BC has brought back something from history that had almost completely vanished in Canada: The Growler!
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CAMRA Vancouver Making a FUSS in the Legislature
CAMRA Vancouver may have finally arrived on the political scene last week when their FUSS Campaign was raised in the BC Legislature by NDP MLA Shane Simpson.
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When a Pint’s Not a Pint: CAMRA Petition Calls for Draft Beer Serving Sizing Clarity
Have you ever ordered a pint of beer and then been a bit miffed after being handed a glass smaller than you expected?
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Do You Know How Much Beer Is In Your Pint? Bet You Don’t
Campaign for Real Ale Vancouver (www.camravancouver.ca) is pressing the government and the service industry to confess to the true size of their so-called pints.
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Fess Up to Serving Sizes (FUSS) Campaign
This week CAMRA Vancouver is launching its “Fess Up to Serving Sizes” (FUSS) Campaign which will address issues related to draft beer serving sizes. This campaign is focused on licensees declaring exactly what size of glass they are serving beer in, ensuring they deliver on the promise of this serving size, and then follow through…