June 26, 2020

June 26th is the 178th day of the year. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

You won’t be going to Target anytime soon.

Premier Doug Ford says he still does not want to see cross-border travel with the U.S. for non-essential purposes due to fear of the second COVID-19 wave.

The premier made the comments at a news conference on Thursday, saying he spoke to an expert about the matter who told him that it would not be wise to reopen the borders to the U.S. and allow international travel.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that an agreement with the United States will see the borders between the two countries remain closed to non-essential travellers until July 21.

Chickens could be coming to a backyard near you.

During the June 15 council meeting, Chatham-Kent Councillor Mark Authier announced that he would be bringing forward a motion regarding backyard hens at the next meeting, set for June 29.

Authier’s motion requests that urban areas in Chatham-Kent allow up to six chickens with no roosters. It would only be applicable for single-dwelling residence and not in apartments or multiplex homes.

Currently, chickens are only permitted on premises that are zoned agricultural under the municipality’s zoning by-law.

Disney is changing the name of their Splash Mountain ride because it is based on a racist movie called ”The Song of the South.” The ride is going to be overhauled and themed after the 2009 animated movie ”The Princess and the Frog.” 

Disney said the changes had been in the works since last year, but the announcement comes as companies across the U.S. are renaming racially charged, decades-old brands

Splash Mountain first opened as a log-flume ride at Disneyland in the late 1980s.

Conservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work after a copy of a famous painting by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the latest in a long line of artworks to suffer a damaging and disfiguring repair.

A private art collector in Valencia was reportedly charged €1,200 by a furniture restorer to have the picture of the Immaculate Conception cleaned. However, the job did not go as planned and the face of the Virgin Mary was left unrecognizable despite two attempts to restore it to its original state.

After yet another famous painting in Spain fell victim to a botched restoration effort, the Royal Academy of Arts invited others to take a stab at fixing up the portrait.

Amateur artists take a crack at restoring Murillo’s Immaculate Conception

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Here’s a pandemic overperformer hardly anybody – even the company that makes it saw coming: the Roomba — the pie-sized robotic vacuum. People stuck at home are snagging robo-vacs, including Roomba’s $1000 top-end model.

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This post was written by Jen Marsh