I believe there was a comment about how this was a backlogged lesson that was recorded before the sunsetting was announced, (which seems obvious since it being 86* F in Toronto in February seems weird :) )

In the sunsetting article Algolia offers three alternatives to Places:

If you are a Places customer, from the entire Algolia team, we’d like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. We’re committed to making the transition as smooth as possible and that’s why we’ll continue to support Places until May 31st 2022. To help get you started, we provided some potential alternatives:

Mapbox Google Places Geocode Earth

I think the basics of what's being shown (integrating a location lookup api into the weather app) doesn't change, there's just a little extra work putting the pieces together. But we're programmers, that's what we do! ;)

Leverage Algolia Places