{"id":257038,"date":"2020-06-04T02:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257038"},"modified":"2020-06-04T02:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:12:16","slug":"north-vancouver-city-oks-public-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/04\/north-vancouver-city-oks-public-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"North Vancouver city oks public drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257040\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257040\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jamie-street-kD2daMYsrXM-unsplash-1024x639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThis summer city parks will be an extension of everyone&#8217;s own backyard,\u201d Buchanan added. (File Photo: Jamie Street\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan said that the council voted to allow drinking in public which includes certain parks in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan was pleased to announce that the council passed the bylaw on June 2, which seeks to aid restaurants and bars affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m pleased that Council passed a bylaw tonight to allow for the consumption of alcohol in certain public places including City parks!<\/p>\n<p>This summer we need to find new ways to connect while distancing. This is just one way we\u2019re working to make <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NorthVan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NorthVan<\/a> a city for people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NqZjVnqOaf\">https:\/\/t.co\/NqZjVnqOaf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Linda Buchanan (@LindaCBuchanan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindaCBuchanan\/status\/1267677472201441280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis summer we need to find new ways to connect while distancing. This is just one way we\u2019re working to make NorthVan a city for people,\u201d she also wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>She further said that this is the North Vancouver city is the first jurisdiction in BC to pass a bylaw such as this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis summer city parks will be an extension of everyone&#8217;s own backyard,\u201d Buchanan added.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a tweet that concerns &#8220;litter and irresponsibility,&#8221; the mayor said that her perspective that treating adults as adults will make them behave &#8220;that way and be responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which includes managing waste and recycling if picnicing. Other bylaws remain: noise, littering, public intoxication, good neighbour and laws re: age of consumption, drinking driving,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan said that the council voted to allow drinking in public which includes certain parks in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":257040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257042,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257038\/revisions\/257042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}