{"id":544039,"date":"2026-03-18T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544039\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:17:15","slug":"ontario-expanding-bring-your-own-booze-rules-to-include-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544039\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario expanding bring-your-own-booze rules to include festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ford-government\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ford government<\/a> says it plans to expand tailgate permits to let people bring and drink their own alcohol at certain events, including some movie screenings and farmers\u2019 markets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The province announced the move on Tuesday afternoon, suggesting it would drive local tourism and economic growth by boosting attendance at some festivals or other municipal events.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford told reporters he saw it as a policy to help attract more people to outdoor events.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about general venues, cultural venues outside, they should be able to have a glass of wine or a beer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not the first time this has happened. It\u2019s happened before that certain special occasions we allow people to drink at a festival or in a park, and do it responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Before the changes, only people organizing sporting tailgates could request a permit to let people bring their own alcohol. The government said the changes could extend to events like art exhibitions and neighbourhood festivals.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said the move would \u201cempower local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Municipalities will have to pass bylaws allowing people to drink in public if they don\u2019t already allow it and establish a process for events that qualify under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in September, people will be able to apply for permits through the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With a file from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ford government says it plans to expand tailgate permits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,13403,44,49397,13404,714],"class_list":["post-544039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ford-government","tag-news","tag-ontario-alcohol","tag-ontario-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}