If 150,000 revelers in Robson Square drank three beers per day each of the 17 days of the games, how much would the empties, at 10 cents each, be worth?
$765,000, that’s how much.
Now, if the 26 million Canadians who tuned in for the gold medal hockey final each drank three beers, their empties would be worth $15,600,000. That’s more than the GDP of some third- and even second-world nations.
It’s true: nobody throws a party like Canada. TIME magazine’s Sean Gregory wrote a sublime article on how Canada has emerged as the world’s supreme (beer) garden of earthly and Dionysian delight. Some choice excerpts include:
Ford’s hotel is near Granville Street, close enough for her to hear the “Can-a-da, Can-a-da” shouts at 3 a.m. “It’s been a two-week tailgate,” she said. “I’ve covered a lot of college football, and this is like the Dante’s Inferno version of tailgating.”
Oh. My. God.






