Click here and scroll down to the subection "games" and then tell me we have freedom.

http://www.oakville.ca/Media_Files/1999-159Parks.pdf

I can see rules for a park being "no glass bottles, no pets off leash, and stoop and scoop" and maybe even a curfew overnight so that people dont cause trouble, but this is bloody ridiculous!

err, it froze my IE...

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ur IE lacks freedom ..

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Wow, I guess the term "public" park is used extremely loosely in Oakville. Lame

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*They say that time will make all this go away - but it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays*

i have the feeling these bylaws are similar everywhere.

I remember going to the park in argentina. On weekends they were packed. Full of people playing sports, picnicking, bbqing. I was enjoying a cold beer from the cooler as were several others. Some people started playing loud music and within 5 minutes there were about 30 people (strangers) dancing. People were there of all ages. Families, kids, old people, teenagers. No one got "offended" by kids playing and making noise, or people playing music, or somebody having a beer. All things that should go on in a "public" park.

When i commented to my argentine friends that none of this could never happen in canada they couldnt even begin to understand why not, and how could i explain it to them? To them this was as simple a pleasure as breathing fresh air, as it should be!

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Originally posted by Jayx1 i have the feeling these bylaws are similar everywhere. I remember going to the park in argentina. On weekends they were packed. Full of people playing sports, picnicking, bbqing. I was enjoying a cold beer from the cooler as were several others. Some people started playing loud music and within 5 minutes there were about 30 people (strangers) dancing. People were there of all ages. Families, kids, old people, teenagers. No one got "offended" by kids playing and making noise, or people playing music, or somebody having a beer. All things that should go on in a "public" park. When i commented to my argentine friends that none of this could never happen in canada they couldnt even begin to understand why not, and how could i explain it to them? To them this was as simple a pleasure as breathing fresh air, as it should be!

All of Canada isn't like this... Quebec is a LOT more relaxed with their rules... go to Montreal on Sundays for tam-tams at Mount Royal

French Canada is an exception to the rule in many cases, probably because they are of latin culture. Latins typically wouldnt put up with the shit that we do. Tell someone in montreal that they cant smoke at a club and theyd laugh at you and blow smoke in your face. I wish english canada had balls like this.

yeah we really need people drinking beers and alcohol in parks, more hooliganism, no thanks. (it is forbidden in Quebec too)

And about the smoke, I pray every day that a law banning smoking in clubs and other public areas here in Montreal. I would go out more often for sure.

It was so comfortable yesterday to walk around the casino without getting bothered by chain smokers. (they were all crammed in smoking room! HA!).

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funny, but i didnt see any "hooliganism" the whole time i was in argentina except at a soccer game.

All i saw were families with kids playing sports, mom making food and dad having a beer.

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Originally posted by aarontrance Wow, I guess the term "public" park is used extremely loosely in Oakville.

Probably...

I could be wrong, but it looks like that rule (as stupid as it sounds) is meant to ensure that those little league teams, which get permits from the city, are the ones entitled to use the baseball/soccer fields for thier games & practices.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 funny, but i didnt see any "hooliganism" the whole time i was in argentina except at a soccer game. All i saw were families with kids playing sports, mom making food and dad having a beer.

you saw none, doesn't mean there's none. Thats the difference.

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I have an argentine sitting here right now telling me that in the 31 years she lived in argentina, she never saw drunken nor rowdy people in parks.



Its funny how our society portrays ANY consumption of alcohol as evil. As if having a beer is going to change people into a monster.