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It’s time to make St. Patrick’s Day a national holiday
Graham Hughes/CP Holidays in Canada fall into three general categories. There are holidays that involve presents, holidays that involve candy and holidays that involve alcohol. And judging from the...
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This navy is hardly shipshape
Rob Griffith/AFP/Getty Images Following revelations of a “predatory culture” full of drunken misconduct, the head of Australia’s navy has orders for his troops: shape up or ship out. Addressing the...
View ArticleCambridge hires students to babysit drunk peers
St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge is hiring students to look after their peers who have had too much to drink during end of year celebrations. The College, which is celebrating its...
View ArticleBrits spend five years of their life hungover: poll
The average British person will spend over five years of their life with a hangover, according to new research reported in the Daily Mail. That same person will suffer through a day-long hangover...
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University returns to all-male and all-female dorms
Photo courtesy of adpowers on Flickr The president of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. says his school will return to all-male and all-female dormitories in September. Here’s his...
View ArticleTwo new things you should know about drinking
Another study suggests that binge drinking damages the brain. But this time, there’s reason to be hopeful too. Tim McQueeny, a psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati (UC), looked...
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Want to get paid to drink?
Photo courtesy of Kirti Poddar on Flickr Students at Arizona State University are getting paid to drink — $60 per night. Will Corbin, an Arizona State University professor researches the effects of...
View ArticleQueen’s to ban alcohol during Frosh Week
Queen’s University, the site of at least two alcohol-related deaths last year, will ban alcohol entirely from residences during Frosh Week — even for those who have reached the legal drinking age,...
View ArticleDrinking to get ahead in China
Conventional wisdom tells us binge drinking is an indulgence typically reserved for the young and irresponsible. In Canada, that seems to be the case. Most binge drinkers are between 15 and 24 years...
View ArticleCocktails at the Soho House
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Who should teach our teenagers about drinking at university?
Dave Chidley/CP Some predictions can be made with absolute certainty. The tides will shift. The sun will rise. And young university students will drink to excess. From Tom Brown’s Schooldays to Animal...
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Who should teach teenagers about drinking?
Photo by Dave Chidley/CP From the editors of Maclean’s Some predictions can be made with absolute certainty. The tides will shift. The sun will rise. And young university students will drink to...
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21+ rules may violate human rights code
Photo by Yoshimai on Flickr Young adults, especially men, are being barred from entering drinking establishments in Canada based solely on their age — and these are men who are have reached the...
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When someone close drinks too much
Robert Clare/Getty Images Sometimes a person’s drinking problem gets so out of hand the spouse of the drinker starts to secretly wish the drinker would die. Helen and Edmund Tirbutt, the...
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Remove drunken posts. Change privacy setting.
Photo by LifeSupercharger on Flickr Students who post on Facebook about “getting drunk” or “blacking out” or “getting wasted” might want to change their privacy settings. U.S. researchers have...
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Teens doing dangerous things in cars
Photo by eduard_orbitron on Flickr The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has released their annual report, which brings together surveys of drug use among teens from the various provinces. What’s most...
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High demand for alcohol-free and quiet floors
Photo by mathplourde on Flickr There was high demand for alcohol-free and quiet floors at a University of Alberta residence that decided to offer them for the first time this year. That result seems to...
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Date rape drug shows up in Nanaimo, B.C.
Photo by Robert S. Donovan on Flickr Vancouver Island University is warning students via Twitter to guard their drinks. A woman who was sexually assaulted in Nanaimo recently may have been given the...
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Does Victoria have the dumbest students?
Photo by rick on Flickr Is it just me, or is there something extra dumb about students in Victoria, B.C.? Two of them are facing break and enter charges after they stole a bag of Zellers-brand barbecue...
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U. Alberta students “blindsided” by booze ban
GordonsPictures/Flickr Students from the University of Alberta say they were blindsided by changes imposed on the largest residence on campus, Lister Hall, which include a ban on drinking in common...
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