{"id":70650,"date":"2021-02-22T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70650"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:28:49","slug":"next-brock-talks-to-look-at-history-of-alcohol-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/02\/next-brock-talks-to-look-at-history-of-alcohol-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Brock Talks to look at history of alcohol regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As questions arise about why liquor and cannabis stores were deemed essential services during pandemic lockdowns, Dan Malleck will give a public talk exploring the history of government regulation of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies and Associate Professor with the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences will give a free public lecture on \u201cControlling the Essentials\u201d on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Malleck\u2019s talk will explore reactions to government restriction of alcohol and how various attempts at prohibition resulted in bigger problems than they were intended to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The online talk, hosted by the St. Catharines Public Library, is free but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/brock-talks-controlling-the-essentials-tickets-139698296365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preregistration<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/community\/brock-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Talks<\/a>\u00a0is an ongoing collaboration between the Faculty of Humanities and the St. Catharines Public Library. The series features six talks from September to April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As questions arise about why liquor and cannabis stores were deemed essential services during pandemic lockdowns, Dan Malleck will give a public talk exploring the history of government regulation of alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,7,37],"tags":[28,605,192,703,5505,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70651,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70650\/revisions\/70651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}