11-24-2018, 05:31 PM
$500,000 a year is essentially an insurance policy to prevent things from getting out of hand. Far smaller parties at Queen's and Fanshawe in recent years have ended in rioting that has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. If the police don't appear to be doing everything possible to prevent a riot then they will be vilified publicly (and probably sued).
That doesn't even begin to cover the hospital costs from these big parties.
Opioids get all the headlines, but alcohol is the biggest drug problem we have as a country. Our society has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol that no one seems to want to acknowledge its true costs ($14 billion per year in 2002 and responsible for more hospitalization than heart attacks).
I probably sound like a broken record, but these behaviours and outcomes will only change with a societal shift around the norms, views, and attitudes towards alcohol. The provincial government's recent decisions around alcohol and apparent fixation on cheap alcohol are doing the opposite.
That doesn't even begin to cover the hospital costs from these big parties.
Opioids get all the headlines, but alcohol is the biggest drug problem we have as a country. Our society has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol that no one seems to want to acknowledge its true costs ($14 billion per year in 2002 and responsible for more hospitalization than heart attacks).
I probably sound like a broken record, but these behaviours and outcomes will only change with a societal shift around the norms, views, and attitudes towards alcohol. The provincial government's recent decisions around alcohol and apparent fixation on cheap alcohol are doing the opposite.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.