In June, 50 people who happened to be at Calgary's CORE Shopping Centre around lunchtime got a summons for immediate jury duty. The Canadian practice is called talesman, and it allows officials to grab someone off the street—or in this case the mall—to fill out a jury pool. The last time it was used in Calgary was in 1996.
Hundreds of people in China's Henan province planned to protest their banks, which have been refusing to allow them to withdraw money for the past two months. Then all of their smartphone health code icons turned from green to red. Under China's travel regulations and social credit system, this barred them from using public transportation or going to places like restaurants and malls.
