May 10, 2025

Relocate where you light up

BY NATALEIGH MCCALLUM Smoking is a gross habit but is the newest smoking ban going a little too far? As of Jan. 1, 2015 yet another smoking ban will come into effect. The new ban will be provincewide and prohibit smoking on restaurant and bar patios and within a 20-metre radius of any playground or sports field – that’s right, you will not be smoking and enjoying a beer on … Continued

National Non-Smoking Week comes to a close

BY GREG STAMPER Yesterday marked the end of National Non-Smoking Week for Canadians coast-to-coast. Every year since 1977, when it was first founded by the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC), the week has been held during the third full week of January and features a theme that differs from years-past, with this year’s theme being Truth in Advertising. This theme was chosen by the CCTC as a way to … Continued