Details surrounding the recent announcement of a smoke-free Bluesfest are hazy.
Smoke-free Bluesfest hazy about how to enforce the rules
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As is children’s festival
The impact of the teacher’s dispute is also being felt by a successful annual arts festival that attracts thousands of eager students every year.
School trips to museums are suffering . . .
Students are not the only ones being affected by the Ontario public teachers’ work-to-rule action. Centretown’s museums and arts institutions are also feeling the effects of Ottawa’s public school teachers refusing to take their students on field trips. 
Braedon Clark, Centretown NewsThe dispute between the provincial government and its teachers has affected field trip to museums as well as other festivals that depend on attendance by students.
Viewpoint: Some 20-somethings’ cultural complaints miss the point
Perhaps it’s appropriate that Ottawa’s most talked about nighttime event so far this year didn’t take place in a club or a bar, but at an establishment with a far more staid reputation.