{"id":680,"date":"2007-01-17T19:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2007-01-17T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:48:18","slug":"ontario-liberals-redefine-hypocrisy-in-opening-of-smoking-lounges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Liberals Redefine Hypocrisy In Opening Of Smoking Lounges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Liberal government has decided that government owned casinos are no longer considered public places because the Niagara Falls Casino and the Windsor Casino will be opening smoking zones.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Ontario Health Minister Jim Watson defended the announcement by saying that the ban on restaurants and bars is different because they serve food but that the primary reason for a casino is not to serve food.<\/p>\n<p>This plan comes on the heels of the drop in business at the Windsor casino after the Detroit casino opened up a smoking area.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Legion&#8217;s are still smoke free zones which means the Provincial Liberals, headed by Dalton McShifty, are giving more rights to gamblers than to veterans who fought to create a free Canada.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the dollar is almighty to the Ontario Liberal government and public businesses just don&#8217;t get a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>OfficiallyScrewed &#8230; again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Liberal government has decided that government owned casinos are no longer considered public places because the Niagara Falls Casino and the Windsor Casino will be opening smoking zones. Today, Ontario Health Minister Jim Watson defended the announcement by saying that the ban on restaurants and bars is different because they serve food but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,34,44,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-healthcare","category-moonbattery","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-provincial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}