City will let its mask bylaw expire
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After a heated debate to bring in a local mask bylaw in early December, Medicine Hat city council will allow it to expire on March 4, it was announced Wednesday.
At that point province-wide requirements to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus may still be in effect, stressed Mayor Ted Clugston.
The absence of a provincial mask mandate in late November when cases were spiking raised the temperature on a local debate.