McDonald said she hope peer pressure will be enough to keep fans from smoking, and spreading second-hand smoke. The Ottawa Council on Smoking is in favour of the new rule. The group points to a recent study by the Canadian Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke that showed young women who are exposed to second-hand smoke are at increased risk of breast cancer.
Ottawa Ottawa Bluesfest to go smoke free This year's blues music festival aims to ban smoking but National Capital Commission land, where the event is to be held, has no rules that limit or restrict lighting up. The drinks had to be left on a bench, just metres away from the smoking area, leaving the patrons to watch and make sure no one slipped drugs into them.
The reason why people were told to do this is because of a provincial policy that doesn't allow for alcoholic beverages to be in smoking zones. The policy stems from the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, implement by the previous Liberal government in Under that act, smoking and drinking in the same areas in public is outlawed. This is so unsafe for many reasons ottawabluesfest. Next year, fix your rules! Bluesfest has its hands tied with this policy.
Editorial guidelines. Two Bluesfest volunteers say drink table outside smoking area endangers festivalgoers.
Jacob Hoytema, Jul 12 The smoking area for Bluesfest in a photo taken on Friday. Two Bluesfest volunteers say the new setup for leaving drinks outside the festival smoking area could leave concertgoers vulnerable to sexual predators. Timmy Blais and his sister Tammie Blais, both volunteers with Bluesfest for about half a decade, say regulations about alcohol in the smoking area mean festival attendees must leave unfinished drinks on a table near the entrance, and the Blais siblings say they fear someone else could spike those drinks with an incapacitating drug.
On one of their nights off, when they were using the smoking area as festival attendees, more than a dozen open drinks were on the table, they say. I just think something needs to be done, something to keep people safe.
On Thursday, Bluesfest posted a sign warning those with open drinks not to leave them unsupervised, suggesting they instead finish their drinks before going for a smoke and mentioning a by-law that forbids food and drink inside the smoking area. This is only the second season when Bluesfest has had a designated smoking section; previously, if someone wanted to smoke, they had to leave the festival grounds.
Bluesfest executive director Mark Monahan said the smoking area was introduced partly to try to draw smokers away from concert areas. Timmy Blais said he spoke Tuesday with a volunteer supervisor, who then raised the issue with the festival board. Monahan said Ottawa festival organizers often communicated, but to his knowledge this particular issue had not come up. A file photo of Bluesfest executive director Mark Monahan. Bluesfest makes the best of a soggy night.
Share this Article. Related Content. The band formed in when Portielje, who grew up in Ottawa but moved to Montreal after college, responded to a Craigslist ad posted by Phillips and Molander, two musicians from B. Their studio debut, 's Dark Eyes, showcased their trademark blend of vocal harmonies and acoustic instruments with a rhythmic undercurrent, leading to hit songs like Full Circle and Call Me in The Afternoon, and plenty of international acclaim.
Last summer, they managed to recapture the magic of that first meeting, resulting in a "wonderfully prolific" period. With upcoming dates in Ottawa and Montreal, plus a European tour in the works for next summer, the band has been rehearsing six days a week for the past month.
Lynn Saxberg. Slow-paced rollout of Ontario's Step 3 reopening plan too little, too late for some As major events around the world dive headlong back into the business of juggling crowds and live acts, the key festivals in Ottawa are approaching the rest of the summer with caution, their efforts hampered by the slow-paced rollout of Ontario's reopening plan.
His office also runs the Festival of Small Halls, which will be announcing a fall concert series soon.
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