HALIFAX Many Maritimers were out soaking up the sun this weekend. I got out yesterday with a couple friends on a patio downtown and had a nice supper, social distanced and headed out golfing right now,” said Leanne Salyzn. After seeing a surge in COVID cases through April and May, case numbers continue to trend downward in Nova Scotia. 12 new cases of infection were reported Sunday, along with 32 recoveries, leaving 204 active cases in the province. One month ago, on May 6, there were more than 1,300 active COVID cases. A province-wide lockdown ended on June 2. Many Haligonians say they feel comfortable as public health measure start to ease and are excited to get out and explore the city again.
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Brian Doucette with the hutch that he’s spent thousands of hours investigating.
Photograph by Louise Stoker.
Brian Doucette has purchased a lot of cool stuff over the years antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Meiji-period Japanese panels and an 18th-century Jacopo Brandini violin he picked up for $200 and later sold for $9,000. But the item that has most captured his imagination the one he has now spent 3,000 hours researching, trying to unlock its secrets is a wooden hutch he bought from a random couple in 2016. “Anybody in antiques always says, ‘One day I’m going to find a Monet,’ ” Doucette says. “This is my Monet. This has been the quest.”
David Shellnutt tries to ride his bicycle as much as possible through the wintertime. Some of the items that are essential to him are his goggles, gloves, face-covering, and his rubber Chuck Taylor shoes. (Photo: Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star/Getty Images)
A major urban policy response during the pandemic has been the rapid implementation of new bike lanes. Paris, Milan and Bogotá were among the first cities to develop dozens, or even hundreds, of kilometres of new cycling routes.
Canadian cities were slower off the mark, but over the summer, new cycling infrastructure became part of their response to Covid-19 as well. A recent survey in Toronto demonstrated overwhelming support for these initiatives. It found that 84% of respondents supported the construction of protected bike lanes and 85% wanted the city to do more to protect vulnerable road users.