Bryan Adams sidelined for a second time

But we’ve still got Gordon Lightfoot

Daily Mail Online @MailOnline

Bryan Adams going to hospital with Covid after flying to Italy

trib.alSinger Bryan Adams tests positive for COVID after flying to ItalyCanadian singer Bryan Adams, 62, revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 again after contracting the virus in October. He found out after flying into Milan to promote his Pirelli’s 2022 calendar.

From his post blaming bat-eating non-vegans to trying and failing to headline the first pre-vaccinated German stadium concert, Bryan Adams has become an odd avatar of the pandemic. And now he’s tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time in a month, at the Milan airport en route to promote his photos in the Pirelli Calendar.

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A quandary made out of plexi

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Some health experts are reconsidering the use of plexiglass as a measure against COVID-19, arguing the barriers can obstruct ventilation needed to avoid spreading the virus.

cbc.caPlexiglass can be ‘counterproductive’ to proper COVID-19 ventilation, experts say | CBC NewsSome health experts are urging establishments and institutions to re-think the use of plexiglass as a measure against COVID-19, arguing the barriers can even be “counterproductive” when they obstruct the ventilation needed to avoid spreading the more transmissible delta variant.

Dr. Peter Jüni is making headlines for urging people to throw out the plexiglass, as the head of Ontario’s science table is promoting how counterproductive it is in fighting the coronavirus, despite all the expenses previously encouraged by experts. A new variant detected in South Africa won’t likely be beat by installing more shields.

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“The remarks I made were poorly chosen and I should not have said them.” David Suzuki apologized five days after telling Victoria’s CHEK News that “there are going to be pipelines blowing up” if politicians don’t act soon. He previously stood by the comments even after they were denounced by the David Suzuki Foundation.

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Two weeks into 320 pages

A tweet from the Toronto District School Board noted staff are currently reading The Last Girl by Nadia Murad, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who drew book club banishment for fears it would foster Islamophobia. A mention of this in the Globe and Mail led to a Rex Murphy column, helping to put the story on the radar:

Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer

@tdsb_helen @TDSBDirector @kgfalcon Finally, you already told the @globeandmail on November 12th that your staff were reading the book and would hopefully approve it "in the near future." Why is it taking the finest minds of the Toronto District School Board more than two weeks to read a memoir?

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Margaret Atwood’s postage stamp debuted at the Toronto Reference Library. The latest from Canada Post had an unveiling with the author, who quipped about her own “lack of deadness.” Also in IRL literary events, the inaugural Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy was awarded at an actual Gardiner Museum dinner party.

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Finally, sun rises on Shuter

Gordon Lightfoot had to postpone his tour after requiring emergency wrist surgery following a show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, but his determination to revive Massey Hall in Toronto was realized on the day he received the key to the city. It was his 171st appearance on that stage, to be immediately followed by numbers 172 and 173: