The premier most opposed to vaccination proof

But schools are good at rules

Calgary Herald @calgaryherald

Kenney says province will not bring in COVID-19 vaccine passports

bit.lyKenney says province will not bring in COVID-19 vaccine passportsPremier Jason Kenney says Alberta will not be following the lead of Quebec and Manitoba on vaccine passports.

Alberta will stick to its guns when it comes to not introducing vaccine passports, with Jason Kenney believing the ones introduced in Manitoba contravene certain laws, even if Quebec doesn’t think so. Over in Ontario, vaccinations will be required for staff and students at Seneca College, which is likely the first school in Canada with this policy.

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New war on street furniture

Spacing @Spacing

No one should be fooled by all those patios now on parking spaces. Our surprise that these amenities exist at all shouldn’t obscure the City’s seemingly boundless capacity to micro-manage public space hasn’t abated; it's merely in hiding. #TOpoli #ONpoli

spacing.caLORINC: Editing the moralism out of post-pandemic Toronto - Spacing TorontoWe met friends for dinner on the weekend, on the patio of a little taco place along St. Clair West. Outside the patio, on the sidewalk, was a bench and on the bench were two women, waiting to be seated. The waiter came out, took their drink order and brought back a couple of mojitos, […]

John Lornic’s tale of east-end Toronto eatery Lake Inez being visited by bylaw officers ordering compliance with the details of the CaféTO patio program reflects the past public space battles rearing in different ways. Meanwhile, a post-pandemic revitalization effort will add hearts to Yonge-Dundas Square—even if its name is changed.

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“Video seems to debunk conspiracy theory that Kevin O’Leary was driving speedboat in fatal crash.” National Post coverage of the trial of Linda O’Leary, who pled not guilty to careless operation of a vessel, includes video evidence showing her at the wheel. A police officer testified Linda’s blood alcohol level was in the “alert” range.

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The price is far to the right

A campaign by TekSavvy to oust CRTC chair Ian Scott in response to a Toronto Star report that he went out for drinks with Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic has been stepped up with photographic evidence of their beering. Further evidence of Canada’s data pricing being an extremely high outlier was supplied by this charting of prices in 44 countries:

tefficient 🚥 @tefficient

One gigabyte of mobile data has never been cheaper. And we have never consumed as many GBs as we did in 2020. Cheap mobile data markets to the left, expensive markets to the right. Small dots: older data (as no new data yet available). tefficient.com/mobile-data-us…

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Vice Media Group shows off a female C-suite while it develops a game show. An update from Deadline attempts to explain current distinctions ahead of matching BuzzFeed with an IPO to keep itself alive. The impolite origins of Vice were recently detailed in Vanity Fair, which co-founder Gavin McInnes found 50 things wrong with.

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Finally, bearing with this grin

Turning Red, a Pixar production set for release next March, is the feature directorial debut of Domee Shi, whose animated short Bao won an Oscar. What the films have in common is being set in Shi’s hometown of Toronto. The story of a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant panda whenever she gets excited has a mother voiced by Sandra Oh: