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Posted on Edmonton CBC News Website: Pub's smoking bus is OK Last updated Dec 20 2005 03:27 PM MST CBC News The city has decided it's acceptable for Edmonton bars to allow their patrons to smoke on buses parked outside. Bylaw officials have been studying the issue ever since two city bars parked converted school buses outside their premises so patrons would not have to stand outside to smoke. The tactic was a hit with customers. * FROM DEC. 14, 2005: Bars use buses to get around smoking bylaw John Wilson, spokesperson for the Edmonton's bylaw enforcement branch, says the...

Edmonton — It's happy hour at T. B.'s Pub, but the place is almost empty. The real party is happening just steps away on a smoke-filled red school bus parked beside the bar in a gritty, working-class part of northwest Edmonton. This is the "butt bus," a place for bar patrons to light up between pints of Molson Canadian and Bud. It's also Edmonton City Hall's newest legal nightmare. City officials have been working feverishly to figure out a way to shut down the buses that have sprung up outside at least two bars since the city's strict smoking bylaw...