The Calgary Stampede attracted 500,000 visitors in 2021 after a year of pandemic isolation and uncertainty, epitomizing Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s “best summer ever.”
“The pandemic is over,” U.S. President Joe Biden said last week, striding down the blue carpet of the Detroit Auto Show in Michigan during an interview with"60 Minutes."“No one's wearing masks, everyone seems to be in pretty good shape and so I think it’s changing.
The decision to put an end to some of the last vestiges of federal COVID-19 restrictions is expected to be announced officially on Monday. “I think part of the restraint that provincial and territorial governments and the federal government have, as far as walking past COVID, is because we have our memory of how that didn't actually work out well,” said Dr. Alika Lafontaine, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
“There's no question of whether politics plays a role in the decision-making,” said Julianne Piper, a research fellow with the international Pandemics and Borders project at Simon Fraser University.