B.C.’s five looniest liquor laws
The year is 1949. British reporter Noel Monks walks into the Hotel Vancouver and orders a pint. The barman turns him away — not because he’s intoxicated or even poorly dressed — Monks was bounced for standing on two feet.
The journalist later wrote Canada is “a tremendous, virile country… Yet you’ve apparently let yourselves be legislated into a state of adolescence when it comes to the use of alcohol.”
Monks had reason to be miffed. At the time, B.C.’s beer-serving establishments outlawed music, dancing, food of all kinds, unescorted women and standing upright with a beer. Wine or whisky weren’t on the menu, and mocking the rules by crawling from one table to the next was presumably more than frowned upon.
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Axis of Evil comedian flaunts arsenal of politically charged humour
VANCOUVER – Iranian comedian Maz Jobrani wants the world to know he’s not a terrorist, he’s not hairy, and he certainly doesn’t own an oil rig.
Okay, maybe he is a little hairy. But that won’t stop Jobrani from debunking myriad Middle Eastern stereotypes during his stand-up show at the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday January 24.
