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finally, a political hopeful who recognizes that craft beer is a capital-t-thing and looks to sway the vote! one city candidate for city council rj aquino wants to enforce serving sizes and that's alright by me! story in the metro camra vancouver president's statement and mr. aquino's site p.s.  if you haven't already voted in the advance polls, get yer ass out tomorrow and exercise your democratic right and civil duty to vote.  voting is sexy!

vancouverites, please visit barleymowat.com and give some consideration to sending a letter to vancouver city council in support of brewery lounges chuck hallett has crafted a letter, all you have to do is click and sign your name but you gotta do it today for it to count at tomorrow's council vote for more background information on why this matters, please visit paddy treavor's blog

beer with benefits! November 1st, 2012: The U.S. Presidential Race isn't the only election to follow! Today voting gets underway in our Benefit Brew Project. There are 10 worthy causes in the running to have a special beer released in their honour with full proceeds donated to the cause, and they're all looking for your vote! Have your voice heard by voting at www.phillipsbeer.com/benefitbrew on which beer you'd like to see us make. Votes can be submitted once/day until Nov. 18th and the winner will be announced on December 1st!! Good luck to everyone! The finalists (in no particular order) are: Music BC Foundation Sunshine Clown Society Providence Farm Little People of BC Community Micro-Lending CNIB British Columbia The Nature Trust of BC Lifecycles Project Society Cetus Research & Conservation Soceity The Ucluelet Aquarium Veterinarians Without Borders

vote, vote, vote! This being the political season, we are writing to you to urge you to vote — not just for the candidates clamoring for public office, but for something even more important: beer! Our 8th Annual Readers Choice Awards competition is underway! By visiting our website at http://www.brewingnews.com/northwest/bestofnorthwest/, you can vote for your favorite brewery, brewpub, alehouse or pub, beer store, and homebrew shop in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California, and for your favorite beer and cider as well in 22 different categories. We've added nanobrewery to the list this time also. Don't delay, as our deadline is Saturday, November 10, at 12:00 noon PST. Remember, only one vote per category is allowed. This is your contest; Northwest Brewing News staff is not eligible to vote. Voter ID or proof of citizenship is not required! The winners will be announced in our December-January issue, and a special Readers' Choice Awards...

the humanity! as a lark i put not very good photos up of my beer-related tattoos on the craftbeer.com website and thought nothing further of it (stupid things i do while bored at work...) and now, they've chosen 32 of the top pics submitted (which thankfully both of my submissions are part of - my pics/tattoos weren't the worst) and are asking people to vote for their favourites in order to come up with a top ten list and i'm losing fairly badly how shameful how humiliating how annoying dammit!