COVID-19 pandemic. It has not been business as usual for the city over the past 13 weeks, and even now, officials continue to navigate a new normal.“We tried to think of everything to keep everyone in the city safe,” Mayor Chris Spearman said in a recent interview with Global News.“What was alarming was seeing what was happening in Europe, and seeing the numbers steadily increasing and then seeing the numbers in Canada and in Alberta steadily increasing.“Calgary wasn’t doing that great and then there were communities like Brooks who didn’t seem to have a problem and then one day they had a huge problem,” he said.