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As Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccination numbers rise and hospitalization numbers drop, the province is loosening some public health restrictions.
Starting today, Albertans can book appointments at barber shops, hair salons and other personal wellness services, restaurants can resume patio service and retail shops can now have 15 per cent maximum customer capacity.
Outdoor public gatherings can double to 10 people from five, however indoor social gatherings remain banned.
TORONTO — JJ Wilde isn t so crazy about these pandemic times.Being trapped indoors and away from concert stages has been frustrating for any musician, but the sting was especially sharp for the . . .
Q-and-A: Juno-nominated rocker JJ Wilde on rising above pandemic setbacks
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Canadian rocker JJ Wilde poses for a portrait in Kitchener Ont., Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Wilde, who s based in Waterloo, Ont., will contend for her first Juno nomination with Ruthless in the rock album of the year category. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
TORONTO – JJ Wilde isn’t so crazy about these pandemic times.
Being trapped indoors and away from concert stages has been frustrating for any musician, but the sting was especially sharp for the Waterloo, Ont., rock singer who was gearing up for her breakout moment in 2020.
All the pieces were in place: an appearance at esteemed industry gathering South By Southwest was supposed to kick off a year of touring, laying the groundwork for her roaring debut full-length album.
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Often on a film set, the atmosphere is one of cathedral-like silence. Crew scamper around whispering, the admonishment of ‘Quiet please!’ is shouted regularly, and any on-set dialogue is captured by mics and relayed noiselessly through headsets to those mutely watching proceedings. Amid the disused steelworks of Seneca in Buffalo, New York, on a bright August day before the 2019 Labour Day weekend, the production of A Quiet Place 2 observes no such repose.
In a film with very little dialogue, there’s no need for headsets, and in the cavernous mill building, as dust motes swirl, John Krasinski is enthusiastically bellowing orders to his buzzing team. An upbeat but commanding presence, he’s working fast to make use of the precious hours he has with his two child actors before they have to attend school. “Cillian’s going to come in and hopefully not decapitate my wife!” he jokes cheerfully as he maps out a scene where real-life spouse, Emily Blunt, fearfully rushes thr
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by Vanessa Bates Ramirez; As our prosperity rises, our mental health is on the decline and fast…
Rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, addiction, and other psychological disorders have skyrocketed in recent years, and nobody knows what to do about it.
Enter psychedelics: LSD, magic mushrooms, mescaline, ayahuasca drugs you’d expect to find at a rave or a music festival, not in your psychologist’s office. But that may be about to change, as research in psychedelics increasingly shows their potential for treating psychological conditions.
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