The owner of Ottawa’s first cannabis vapour lounge says he expects his business to be up and running within a week or two after city officials shut it down before the long weekend. BuzzOn vapour lounge was temporarily shut down by city officials on Friday and fined $3,000 in what it describes as a “strong-arm tactic.” The city says the Vanier business is violating the building code. Owner Wayne Robillard said on Sunday the city wants the lounge rezoned as a place of assembly rather than a retail business, and claims the city moved up a May 25 deadline to Friday. In a note on its Facebook page Friday evening, BuzzOn wrote that “bylaw entered with police and a cease and desist order today to prevent us from being open for the weekend.” Robillard said he’ll have to perform some renovations—including adding another bathroom—and have an architect come in to assess the building. “It’s probably going to be a lot easier for us to just pay to renovate and get up to code to whatever it is they want than it is to actually fight their ruling,” he said.

“It just means we might be shut down for a little while.” The city says the action was about safety issues. “This action is solely related to statutory matters pertaining to Building Code compliance from a safety perspective,” a city spokeswoman said in a statement. “As in all such cases, the Owner is encouraged to take appropriate steps to ensure that the space meets the requirements under the Code.” Robillard said they had already met a city demand by removing an interior wall at the lounge. “I would suspect we’ll be closed for no more than one to two weeks. I’m hoping to be back up by the weekend.” BuzzOn opened on April 20 on Montreal Road and drew 25 customers a day during its weeklong “soft launch.” It also had visits from the police. Mayor Jim Watson has expressed his disapproval of the business, saying last month he wanted the lounge shut down. Robillard has said what he is doing is legal: providing a venue for marijuana users, many of whom hold medical marijuana licences supplied by their doctors, to consume the drug.

“It’s going to be up to Watson if we get shut down. He tried using the police to do it, the police found that we weren’t contravening any laws … so then he went to the next avenue, which was the bylaw people,” Robillard said. “They rushed it up on purpose just to shut us down for the long weekend.”Free shipping on orders over $49garage doors fife areaOttawa Shutter Center shared their post.wooden front doors southamptonLike and share if you think the referral program is a great ideaOttawa Shutter CenterRefer you friends to us and be part of our new referral program. craftsman garage door opener sync to carThe more they buy, the more you earn!garage door parts gainesville fl

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Clark said her government is petitioning Ottawa to reconsider the closure. “The Minister of Justice has written a letter to the federal government telling them how disappointed we are in this and asking them to reconsider it,” she said in a press conference. The closure of the search and rescue station, which responds to between 200–300 emergency calls a year, is only one of the victims of cuts to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans as closures are also planned in Comox and Tofino. “I understand budget pressure. We’ve got a lot here in British Columbia and we are trying to balance our budget just like they are federally, but I think you want to make sure, when you’re balancing your budget, you minimize the impact on regions and you try and find as many savings as you can in central government,” she continued. “And I think a lot of us who use the ocean—and I am one of them—want to know no lives will be imperilled as a result of this budget balancing exercise.

I think that’s the most important thing.” The federal Tories have said the station’s activities will be absorbed by the base at Sea Island in Richmond, which is home to the Coast Guard Hovercraft vessel Siyay. However, the Sea Island base is about 17 miles away, meaning a longer response time to Canada’s largest port, which is crowded with recreational and commercial shipping and boating traffic. Christine Collins, national president of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees, said longer response times will undoubtedly cost lives. “It says it will amalgamate that operation with the Sea Island Station in Richmond, but that means longer response times, which can mean the difference between life and death.” Captain Tony Toxopeus, who worked as a lifeboat coxswain at the Kitsilano base for 10 years and as a captain of the hovercraft unit at Sea Island base, said the hovercraft can take as long as an hour to reach Vancouver from its base. “The hovercraft is a great machine, but it has its limitations.

It’s a multitasked vessel, not just a search and rescue vessel. The two search and rescue vessels at Kitsilano are much better for searching and manoeuvring into hard-to-reach areas. In addition to those boats, the Kits base has a 733 Zodiac, which is a super fast and capable rescue boat,” he said. “If you have a heart attack victim at Point Atkinson, that vessel can be there in 10 minutes. There is no way the hovercraft can do that.” The federal government also announced an Inshore Rescue Boat (IRB) service, staffed by students, will help replace the Kitsilano station. The IRB is set to be functioning by spring of 2013. Toxopeus said the announcement came as a complete shock to the Coast Guard and is a big loss for the boaters of Vancouver. “This is all about politics, this isn’t about right and wrong. It’ll save money, but it will cost lives.” Toxopeus said the boating community needs to get upset about this closure. “I think they can make a change if there is a public outcry.”