iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 29, 2021 12:01am
After turning her YouTube spotlight on a barbershop in Innisfail, Alta., as it proudly (albeit temporarily, as it turned out) reopened for business earlier this month despite ongoing provincewide social-distancing restrictions,
Rebel News Alberta bureau chief Sheila Gunn Reid spent the weekend chronicling yet another “lockdown rebellion … underway in small-town Alberta,” courtesy of the Whistle Stop Diner in a place called Mirror.
“Population 500, Mirror is about 1.5 hours southeast of Edmonton, and it’s home to a delicious protest against the lockdown.” It began “late last week,” when owner Chris Scott defied the temporary shutdown order to “swing his doors open to hungry diners looking for a hot meal, a strong coffee, and a little bit of normalcy.”