HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html DA Kine Doors Open On Sunday, Business Licence Or Not: 
Pubdate: Fri, 09 Sep 2005
Source: Abbotsford Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 The Abbotsford Times
Contact:  http://www.abbotsfordtimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1009
Author: Tricia Leslie - Times
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Felger (Tim Felger)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Da+Kine (Da Kine)

DA KINE DOORS OPEN ON SUNDAY, BUSINESS LICENCE OR NOT: FELGER

Despite his troubles in obtaining a business licence from the City of 
Abbotsford, marijuana activist Tim Felger says he'll open his downtown Da 
Kine store on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

That's when he plans to hold an open house, to show people his downtown 
digs. He also hopes to attract potential voters, get them registered and to 
inform people with data he feels they should have.

"I'm going to open on [Sunday] with an open house whether I have a business 
licence or not," Felger said. "I'm not selling anything yet . . . the first 
thing I'm going to do is get voters registered."

Felger, who is also hoping to get signatures on a petition in support of 
another well-known marijuana activist, Marc Emery, feels city officials 
have been giving him the runaround.

He applied for a business licence on July 5 and says he has done everything 
the city has asked, but after officials visited his Da Kine store on 
Essendene Avenue on Thursday morning, Felger said he now has to pay another 
$70 for a permit for the

Da Kine sign. He says he was also told to take down his window signs 
because of a bylaw that states windows can only have 25 per cent coverage.

"My product is my political message, so I'm really displaying my product," 
Felger said.

If and when he does open his business, Felger says he aims to run it as a 
bookstore and political office.

"This will be sort of a brand of retail activism," Felger said. "I'm going 
to model my store after Marc Emery's Marijuana Party bookstore."

Abbotsford city manager Gary Guthrie said last week there are outstanding 
issues with the business licence application "that Mr. Felger is aware of."
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