Is this the new normal? Have we made enough progress with vaccines and masks to allow us to be out and about with people again?

My husband and I recently returned from a trip to Italy with some friends. We flew from Calgary to Montreal where we met up with the other couple who had driven across the border from Upstate New York. And then we flew together from Montreal to Rome.

At the time of our departure, Canadian airlines still required passengers to wear masks on board the plane except when ac...