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All of city council was just copied on a recreational hockey team’s intra-team email, which reads in part:

Sorry to say that in light of the “beer ban“, I will not be playing in the
Confederation League this year. A guys gotta stick to his principles.

Council voted unanimously on this issue. We are not the first, and surely not the last, municipality to introduce this type of policy. When Charlottetown made national headlines with this issue last month, Nicole Vanbergen, a “spokeswoman for the Ottawa-based Canadian Adult Recreation Hockey Association, said she isn’t aware of any bans on drinking in hockey dressing rooms”. The City of Ottawa promptly replied with a letter to Vanbergen, CC’d to Charlottetown city staff, outlining their policy which strictly prohibits drinking in dressing rooms and other public places. Charlottetown’s manager of Parks & Recreation was also approached by a number of peers from other municipalities at a national conference who indicated they had similar policies in place. In this day and age, with our increasingly litigious society and skyrocketing insurance rates, the city really had no choice.