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Leading by example

21 Tuesday Jul 2020

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Leading by example

Even the chicken at Chicken on the Way in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood is wearing a face covering! Someone is keeping up with the times …

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Two metres

06 Monday Jul 2020

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Two metres

City crews have painted reminders like this one all along the Bow River Pathway, to physically show what that all-important two-metre separation looks like.

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Masked Conversation

03 Friday Jul 2020

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Masked Conversation

From the beginning of June, when the figures in the sculpture called Conversation outside the Hudson’s Bay department store in downtown Calgary were fitted with face masks. Seeing how those two can’t really keep a proper physical distance, face coverings seemed to suit their needs.

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