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Sask. considering making pandemic provisions allowing restaurants, bars to sell off-sale alcohol permanent
After previously revoking the temporary provisions allowing Saskatchewan restaurants and bars to sell off-sale alcohol, the province says it is now considering making those provisions permanent.
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Sask. NDP calls on province to extend off-sale allowances for province’s restaurants By Josh Sigurdson
Jul 12, 2021 | 1:18 PM
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling on the provincial government to reverse their decision to end off-sale privileges for restaurants as they recover from the pandemic.
Economy and Jobs Critic Aleana Young says the decision is very short-sided, adding they didn’t give restaurants enough time to adjust to the announcement.
“This is a sector that has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite us all knowing, for quite some time, that restrictions were set to be lifted on Sunday, restaurants were given four days notice,” said Young. “Which anyone who has ever run a small business, is not a whole lot of lead time to make critical decisions.”
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Jul 12, 2021 | 4:23 PM
Josh McLean (right), the owner of Homestead Bar a Vin, was shocked when he found out his restaurant s ability to function as an offsale would be taken away. NDP MLA Aleana Young joined McLean for a media conference on July 12, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Joshua McLean said he was shocked when he woke up last week to an email explaining his restaurant wouldn’t be able to operate as an offsale as of four days later.
McLean owns Homestead Bar A Vin, a wine bar and restaurant in Regina.
Last spring, as part of its initial round of orders and changes announced along with the state of emergency, the provincial government also changed the rules to allow licensed restaurants and taverns to sell alcohol for takeout and delivery as an offsale.
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They were waiting for Regina’s Gabbo’s Nightclub to open at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, the earliest possible time to host a festival of excess without any public health restrictions to get in the way.
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Baran hadn’t been to the Dewdney Avenue nightclub since March 2020, the night before the province began to shut down. It was her birthday. She remembers thinking, “this is the apocalypse.”
She wasn’t sure she’d ever be back. But 15 months later she was waiting outside, an hour early, the line growing behind her. There were more than 50 people by 11:45 p.m., and well over 100 as the doors opened right after midnight. The revellers packed together tight. “No masks, no problem!” Only a few covered their faces, but even those masks came off at the dance floor.