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Vancouver brewery allowed to keep distinctive mural after social media storm over city bylaw
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Ale’s well that ends well when it comes to an “iconic” mural painted outside a Vancouver brewery that will live to see another day, after city council stepped in to stop it from being painted over.
Management at Storm Brewing said last week that the city had informed them the mural that covers one of their exterior walls violated signage and mural bylaws.
Vancouver city council voted Tuesday night to grandfather the mural into the bylaws and allow the mural to stay up.
The motion, put forward by Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung, also asks staff to look at ways the signage and mural bylaws can be modernized.
“This is an effort, obviously, to save Storm Brewing’s mural, but I think it illuminated a larger opportunity — which is to modernize these bylaws to enable more fun and creative expression,” Kirby-Yung told her fellow councillors.
“I think our bylaws were intended to create a level playing field for people — sign bylaws typically deal with advertising, mural bylaws typically deal with art — but they should be supporting local business in our city and they shouldn’t be stifling public art and murals.”
Kirby-Yung’s motion says that the bylaws should allow for businesses to create artful murals that depict their offerings and services on their own premises.
She also said it was ironic that the issue came to light during a routine inspection of the brewery’s pop-up patio — which was only allowed in recent years after the city looked for ways to revitalize local businesses during the pandemic.
Beer and branding
Storm Brewing said they were told the issue was with the depictions of branded materials on the mural, which pushed it into advertising territory rather than art.
“At the end of May, we received a letter from our building manager [telling us] that we required mural permits for the murals we had outside. We didn’t really think anything of it. I thought it would just be doing some paperwork and giving them some money, and then it would go away,” general manager Mike Crozier told CBC News last week.
“Unfortunately, when I started to figure out what permits we needed, we were told that we had to paint over our mural because it had beer and branding … So because it had those two aspects in it, it didn’t follow the guidelines [for the city] murals.”
The brewery posted to social media, informing patrons that it may have to paint over the well-loved mural — and unleashed a veritable storm of support from social media users.
“It’s weird, because a lot of the [customers, we] haven’t seen them for a few years. And they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s been there for years — do you want us to sign a petition?'” brewery owner James Walton told CBC’s On the Coast on Wednesday.
Walton said the news from council was a load off his shoulders in the busiest time of the year.
Now that he knows he doesn’t have to paint it over in white, he said maybe it’s time the mural — adorned with rats to represent Storm Brewing’s branded mascot — got a refresh.
“It is a bit rough-looking, it’s nine years old,” Walton said.
“The original artist actually got a hold of me [recently]. So he said he could fix it up, so it doesn’t look so ratty, as it were.”
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Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has “appropriate measures” to ensure his safety, he said this week in his first public response to shocking comments made by former President Donald Trump suggesting that the Army general is a traitor who deserves execution.
Trump last week accused Milley of going behind his back to communicate with China during the final months of the Trump administration. Milley, who was nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Trump, is set to leave his military leadership post at the end of the month. The general has stood by his communications with China and said he wishes that Trump hadn’t made his comments on Friday.
“I’ll take appropriate measures to ensure my safety and the safety of my family,” Milley said.
What former President Trump said about Gen. Milley
The public disagreements between Trump and Milley have gone on for years. A 2021 book suggested Milley was concerned Trump might attempt a power grab over the 2020 election results. Milley in 2021 refused to comment on the reports.
Trump, in his Friday Truth Social post, also targeted Milley’s role in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president indicated that Milley’s decision to leave office was cause for celebration.
“This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States,” Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social. “This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act.”
Gen. Milley’s response to former President Trump’s comments
Milley, when asked about the post suggesting he should deserve the death penalty, stressed that he’s a soldier who’s been faithful to the Constitution for more than 44 years. He said he’s willing to die to support and defend the Constitution.
“So I’m not gonna comment directly on those, those things,” he said. “But I can tell you that this military, this soldier, me, will never turn our back on that Constitution.”
Milley also said there was nothing inappropriate or treasonous about his calls to China.
Gen. Milley’s calls to China
The chairman’s spokesperson in 2021 said the general’s calls to China were part of his regular communications with defense chiefs worldwide. The spokesperson described the calls as being crucial to reducing tensions between nations, as well as “avoiding unintended consequences or conflict.”
“His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability,” the spokesperson said in a written statement at the time. “All calls from the chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency.”
Milley’s calls with his Chinese counterpart were revealed in “Peril,” a book by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, now a CBS News correspondent. There were reports that toward the end of the Trump administration, Milley assured General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army that the U.S. would not launch an attack against China.
Milley is set to appear in an upcoming 60 Minutes episode to discuss why he thought his calls to China were not only proper, but also necessary to avert further conflict.
Reporting by Norah O’Donnell, Keith Sharman and Roxanne Feitel.
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