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Drinking: 10 things every student should know
www.ShootJoeC.com/Flickr If you choose to drink, there are a few things you need to know. We’re not talking about the legal drinking age or the dangers of drunk driving, which society has justifiably...
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The perils of drinking on Canadian campuses
Graphic by Jessie Willms. Text by Josh Dehaas. Don’t forget to follow @maconcampus on Twitter and like us on Facebook here. The post The perils of drinking on Canadian campuses appeared first on...
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Battling the binge
Mark Peterson/Redux From the 2013 Maclean’s University Rankings When outraged members of Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Tennessee called a news conference in September to protest the suspension of...
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Not every political policy has to be a calculated game
Frederic Sierakowski/Rex/CP Images Young Canadians may drive a car at the age of 16. At 17, they can join the Canadian Forces and be asked to give their lives for their country. In many provinces,...
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Should Ontario privatize liquor sales?
(J.P. Moczulski/CP) Ontario’s Opposition leader, Tim Hudak, seems to have found the ideal hot-button issue in his promise to privatize the provincial liquor monopoly if he emerges victorious from...
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City of Ottawa to promote ‘culture of moderation’
Kirti Poddar/Flickr The City of Ottawa has decided to tackle binge drinking among young adults, but I think their campaign is unlikely to be effective. Indeed, drinking is a problem in the city. Binge...
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The world’s best gin is uniquely Canadian
Photograph by Ryan Szulc Gin drinkers, so the stereotype goes, are strong in personality, stiff in the upper lip and, above all, British to the bone. They write about the travails of the poor, diseased...
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Vaportini doesn’t live up to the hype
Photograph by Jenna Marie Wakani Anyone with a healthy thirst for the latest news in mixology knows that trends in cocktailing can be mystifyingly fleeting. One day cosmos are all the rage, and the...
View ArticleOn Justin and half-freeing the weed
Aaron Haspel, a little-known blogger who would have been world-famous as an epigrammist if he’d been born in 1880, observed the other day that “Revolution is seeded by abuse and watered by reform.” The...
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Drunk mistakes don’t just disappear
davisonscott15/Flickr Students from two Ontario universities are no longer in legal trouble for dumb things they did while drunk but their cases serve as reminders that youthful indiscretions don’t...
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Fernet-Branca: A little swig of ‘Satan’s mouthwash’
Cole Garside Last month, a big winery threw an invitation-only screening in Toronto for the new documentary Somm, which chronicles the arduous preparation required for the master sommelier (MS)...
View ArticleA sales high, no hangover
Non-alcoholic beer may be anathema to beer enthusiasts, but sales are soaring. For the fourth consecutive year, sales of Labatt Breweries of Canada’s offerings—which currently include O’Doul’s, an...
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Book Review: Investigating Booze and Islam
The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker’s Journey By Lawrence Osborne Left to his own literary devices, the inveterate boozehound is a fountain of insight. Hemingway wrote everything half-cocked; Hunter...
View ArticleTalking about drugs, Part Two
Rising just before Question Period yesterday, Conservative MP Kelly Block lamented for Justin Trudeau in a number of regards, including his remarks to students in Brandon last week. The Liberal leader...
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Alcohol-free frosh weeks have failed
University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario, like other schools, has done its best to separate frosh and alcohol during the first week of school. Booze is banned at school-organized...
View ArticleThe 4-1-1 on 9-1-1 calls about underage over-drinking
Last weekend, paramedics rushed to the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex in Ottawa to treat an 18-year-old woman who was severely intoxicated at a birthday party for the PM’s son, Ben Harper. The...
View ArticleSurvey finds Canadians lowball how much alcohol they drink
VANCOUVER – It turns out Canadians lowball the amount of alcohol they drink by up to a whopping 75 per cent, especially when it comes to wine. A study by the Centre for Addictions Research at the...
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Co-starring . . . alcohol: Why there’s more drinking on TV
Before the current season of The Good Wife, its creators and star hinted that the show would finally address the title character’s wine-drinking, which has mostly been just a running gag: Creator...
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Why Britain’s stiff upper lip on stiff drinks is nonsense
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, right, drinks a pint of beer with Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, at a pub in Princess Risborough near Chequers, England, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (AP...
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The alarming rise in binge drinking among young women
A typical girls night out of bringing starts with “pre-drinking” and dancing. (John Tran/White Pine Pictures) In a dingy basement apartment, Taylor and Molly, both 21-year-old students at an unnamed...
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