Shot #55 Special Edition - Jonathon Smolensky of Sovereign Canada

On this special edition of Post Shift Podcast, I did a live Instagram stream with good friend and peer, Jonathon Smolensky from Sovereign Wine and Spirits about how the Covid-19 crisis has affected the industry as well as us delving into some of the initiatives that the industry are working on across the country. Links below! Atlantic Canada Charton Hobbs paying bartenders to create content, giving them bottles to do so Quebec Andrew Whibley’s Go Fund Me initiative Ontario Bartenders Benevolence Fund Toplack Tuesdays Dan Cronin doing Video Series on IGTV with information sessions on EI Civil Liberties Live Zoom hangouts (A Bar isn’t a place, it’s a social community) Manitoba Saskatchewan Danielle Pingert’s Go Fund Me initiatives Alberta Alan Screaton’s #virtual tips4hopsitality Pantry Cocktail Series Bacardi, Campari and Pablo have teamed up to do bottle delivery service for Negronis BC Shrawan Khanna Delivery Service / Go Fund me Victoria Vancouver Food and Beverage Community Relief Fund National CPBA Relief Measures Fund CPBA announce an information session with a major Canadian accounting firm Akeroyd Leung Almani who does a tremendous amount of work with hospitality industry, including restaurants bars liquor agency hospitality individuals Breaking Bread Now (list of independent restaurants doing delivery across the country) Bacardi food programs across Canada RC Show National Program Hospitality Wide Relief Fund with the Hospitality Workers Foundation (a scholarship organization) Bartender Atlas continues with educational programs Federal Government has asked all distilleries who can to start created hand sanitizers (TTB in US has more or less forced them to do that). Kudos to everyone complying with those requests, big and small, from Corby’s to Spirit of York Join us every Tuesday & Friday as award winning industry stalwart, Shawn Soole interviews some of the hospitality industries top talents from around the world including bartenders, venue owners, distillers and industry supporters. Get points of view, advice and the backstories every week. Brought to you by www.soolehospitality.com FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM – Shawn Soole https://www.instagram.com/shawnsoole/ Soole Hospitality Concepts https://www.instagram.com/soolehospitalityconcepts/ FOLLOW US ON TWITTER - https://twitter.com/ShawnSoole