Santa Beer on Ontario's Naughty List
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:00 (3730/15)
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Bureaucracy
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the province's alcohol regulator, has moved to ban an Austrian beer favoured by connoisseurs because its name, Samichlaus, means St. Nicholas in Swiss-German, and therefore contravenes rules against advertising to children. Vlado Pavicic, co-owner of Burlington-based Roland and Russell Importers, called the decision "insulting to the average Canadian."
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