Selling beer & wine in convenience stores

The B.C. Conservatives announced it is in favour of allowing convenience stores in the province to sell beer and wine. SFU marketing expert Lindsay Meredith says there are winners and losers if this happens. The winners would be private grocery stores while the losers would be B.C. liquor store employee unions and private cold beer & wine stores. Meredith predicts this campaign promise will be popular. “It will be a pretty good vote puller, especially for the age 32-50 crowd,” says Meredith. “Those in their 20s and 30s will love it, too, but they don’t vote.”

Lindsay Meredith, SFU Beedie, 604.842.6007 (cell), meredith@sfu.ca

Film explores mental health

The Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequalities and Mental Health (CGSM) at Simon Fraser University will be presenting an invitation-only screening of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum on May 9 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Followed by a panel discussion, this film explores how the Mental Patients Association (MPA), a radical group formed in the 1970s, helped transform Canada’s psychiatric landscape. A limited number of media tickets are available for this engagement. Two public screenings will take place at the Carnegie Community Centre on May 11 at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Marina Morrow, director, Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health, 778.782.6906, marina_morrow@sfu.ca