Proposal to get this list back on track

[John]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 3/24/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>>John wrote:
>>
>>>And the Canadians! I hear they don't like "beer." Can you believe that?
>>
>>We don't like some of the urine you guys _call_ beer.  And the extremely
>>anal Presbyterians (even the Catholic ones :-) ) who make our laws
>>definitely don't like the thought that somebody might actually take a sip
>>of beer on-camera.
>>
>>But, on the whole, we like beer...
> 
> 
> The story is in many newspapers in Canada since yesterday:
> 
> http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=9bafb92d-6643-4eff-84fe-a0afe6858a8b&k=54527
> 
> A few select quotes from that article:
> 
> "Telecaster officials explained to CanWest News Service that under
> federal CRTC regulations, images of half-full glasses of beer are
> forbidden in Canadian TV commercials.
> 
> The rationale, they said, is to ensure the mood conveyed in a
> commercial - by a happy crowd of partyers holding beers, for example -
> wasn't dependent on the characters' prior consumption of alcohol.
> 
> "Caution must be exercised when incorporating scenes of unbranded
> alcohol as a prop or mood-setting in commercials," note Telecaster
> guidelines posted at the bureau's website.

So cans, not glasses, and all's well?