Let Dogs In

British Columbia and the Rules on Dogs in Bars

If you have ever travelled across Canada with a dog, you will know the strange feeling of being turned away at a door for a reason nobody can quite explain. In British Columbia that feeling has a particularly odd shape.

9 June 2026

Let Dogs In

LET DOGS IN: How Volunteers are Trying to Cancel Canada's Pointless Bar Ban

Across Canada a dog can ride the bus, go into shops and sit on the patio, but is turned away at the door of a bar with no kitchen. The Roch Society's new campaign asks the question the rule has never answered, what exactly is the risk?

4 June 2026