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COVID-19 cops want to keep you distant

Four weekends into existing like this

Apr 6, 2020
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Twitter avatar for @cancivlibCanadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib
As restrictions on our liberty increase to help #flattenthecurve, we can't forget the importance of the right to dissent. Physical distancing shouldn't preclude public dissent:
Physical Distancing Shouldn’t Preclude Public Dissent - CCLACCLA LIVE COVID-LIBERTY UPDATES Physical Distancing Shouldn’t Preclude Public Dissent April 3, 2020. By Cara Zwibel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association For comments, please email: media@ccla.org Remember protest and dissent? It is hard to believe that just six weeks ago the country was consumed…ccla.org

April 3rd 2020

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Questions are being raised about certain measures to try and stop the spread of COVID-19—from new permission for carding to concern about the prison population and potential cellphone tracking. Physical distancing patrols were active in Toronto and elsewhere on the weekend, which brought on a parallel kind of pandemic statistic.


No curbsides for legal weed

Twitter avatar for @guardianThe Guardian @guardian
Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong?
Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong?Growers have gone bust, and the black market is still thrivingtheguardian.com

April 5th 2020

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The Observer’s feature on why Canada’s joint endeavour failed coincides with claims of cannabis sales riding a new high. But it got trickier in Ontario when weed storefronts were moved off the essential business list, limiting legal purchases to online. Toronto’s illegal pot shop chain, CAFE, still used the transition to publicize its safety measures.


A dramatic claim of credit card compromise. Mirvish Productions cancelled all its Toronto stage shows through June 30. The ticket values default to credits for future productions—with hope that patrons will prefer to support the industry. But the added implication that refund processing is a security risk nowadays didn’t go over well.


Life beyond the battery club

Brian Levy rose through the ranks of RadioShack, and was president of its Canadian parent company, until it was sold to Circuit City in 2004. After a payout of about $11 million, Levy fulfilled his dream of becoming a doctor, and that led to this:

Twitter avatar for @nationalpostNational Post @nationalpost
Second act: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of COVID-19 fight
Second act: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of COVID-19 fight‘I am just one of those people who was very fortunate, where things worked out, and where I could do not just do one thing I really enjoyed in life, but two’nationalpost.com

April 5th 2020

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Shirley Douglas dead at 86. The actress from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, also made her name through activism in the tradition of her father, Tommy Douglas—and helped establish Friends of the Black Panthers while in Hollywood with then husband Donald Sutherland. (In announcing her death, son Kiefer noted it wasn’t due to COVID-19.)


Finally, cringing at the Cancon

Will Arnett is one of the stars hitched to Quibi, whose short-form mobile video content launches to a housebound North America. Memory Hole is notable for its first three retro topic choices: Toronto native Arnett recaps the SkyDome opening ceremony, deconstructs The Littlest Hobo, and salutes the singing Calgary Flames:

Twitter avatar for @ringerThe Ringer @ringer
Quibi’s ‘Memory Hole,’ which offers history lessons from Will Arnett about cringeworthy pop culture moments, is full of jokes—but half of them don’t land. @HKSurrey:
Quibi’s Will Arnett–Led ‘Memory Hole’ Could Use a Live AudienceThe history lessons about cringeworthy pop culture moments are full of jokes—but half of them don’t landtheringer.com

April 6th 2020

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