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• Specialized training needed for police to deal with online harassment, privacy expert says

  08-09-2017 23:29 via cbc.ca
  Responding to a CBC News report, privacy lawyer Karen Eltis says police officers need better training to help young women dealing with online harassment.
  
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• First witnesses testify in Maxi homicide

  08-09-2017 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  The first witnesses at the murder trial of a man charged with killing 20-year-old Clemence Beaulieu-Patry while she worked at a Montreal Maxi supermarket are testifying. Global’s Matt Grillo reports.
  
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• Blue Highway 20 sound wall inaugurated

  08-09-2017 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  An art installation featuring a blue sound wall on Highway 20 between Lachine and Dorval is being inaugurated. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, the artwork has been met with mixed reaction.
  
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• Blue paint art project along Montreal’s Highway 20 complete

  08-09-2017 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Blue de Bleu project highlighting the blue paint along eight kilometres of A20 was inaugurated Friday.
  
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• Boil water advisory partially lifted for Longueuil

  08-09-2017 22:34 via cbc.ca
  The City of Longueuil has lifted a boil water advisory for several places on Montreal's South Shore, including Boucherville, Saint-Hubert and parts of Old Longueuil, but it remains in effect for Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville.
  
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• Boil water advisory completely lifted for Longueuil

  08-09-2017 22:34 via cbc.ca
  The City of Longueuil has completely lifted the boil water advisory for several areas on Montreal's South Shore as of Sunday.
  
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• Police search for suspect in string of robberies - Montreal Gazette

  08-09-2017 22:07 via montrealgazette.com
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  Police search for suspect in string of robberies
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  Lavallée is described as being 5-foot-11, 180 pounds with brown hair. He has a tattoo of a dagger with a panther-shaped handle on his left arm and the name Dannick tattooed with a cross on his right forearm. Montreal Gazette. Published on: September 8, ...
  
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• 'A call you never want to get': Villa Maria school locked down during false alarm

  08-09-2017 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  • 10 a.m.: Police say emergency alarm was triggered, but was unfounded• 10-noon: Some staff, students locked down, others sent to Marianopolis College• 10-noon: Sweep of the school grounds reveals nothing suspicious• 12:30 p.m.: School sends email to parents to say children are safe• 12:45 p.m.: Some students still in lockdown; social media reports students would be released only to parents• 1 p.m.: Police say 70 per cent of students cleared from building. Operation
  
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• MLB politely refuses Montreal's offer to host games as hurricane Irma nears Florida - National Post

  08-09-2017 21:16 via nationalpost.com
  MLB politely refuses Montreal's offer to host games as hurricane Irma nears Florida
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  MONTREAL — A renewed Montreal offer to Major League Baseball to help out in the wake of hurricane Irma has been politely refused. A person with knowledge of the offer told The Canadian Press late Thursday the City of Montreal offered to host the ...and more »
  
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• Jean-François Lisée softpedals plan to cut funding to English CEGEPs

  08-09-2017 21:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A Parti Québécois government would not try to radically cut funding to the English CEGEP system and will instead try to woo francophones out of it by improving the quality of second language courses in the French network, leader Jean-François Lisée says.
  Insisting he still believes in freedom of choice despite a renewed movement in his party to apply the rules of the Charter of the French Language to the CEGEP system — which would mean francophones and allophone
  
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• Woodland crossing in Beaconsfield to be closed this weekend

  08-09-2017 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  CN railway repairs will close the crossing on Woodland Ave. in Beaconsfield from 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 8 until 11 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 10.
  Detour signs will be installed along Elm Ave. and Beaconsfield Blvd. to direct traffic. There will also be message boards on Highway 20 directing drivers to use the St-Charles Blvd. exit to access Beaconsfield.
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• Families of mosque shooting victims 'sick and tired' of waiting for trial of Alexandre Bissonnette

  08-09-2017 20:26 via cbc.ca
  A leader of the Quebec City mosque targeted in a deadly shooting last January says waiting for the man charged with six counts of first-degree murder to have his day in court is painful.
  
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• Guy Street exit off Ville-Marie Expressway to close for 10 days

  08-09-2017 19:40 via cbc.ca
  The exit will be closed as part of work to rebuild the Ville-Marie Expressway. It's off-limits from 11:59 p.m. Friday until Monday Sept. 18 at 5 a.m.
  
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• ‘How could somebody do this to us?’ West Island dog adoption charity robbed

  08-09-2017 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  A well-known animal adoption service in the West Island says it has been robbed.
  
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• Quebec police say they're not ready for pot-smoking drivers

  08-09-2017 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec police officers are on high alert over the prospect of legalized recreational marijuana, while liquor-store workers rub their hands in anticipation.
  A union representing 4,500 municipal officers on Friday warned that law enforcement is not equipped to deal with drivers who have used marijuana.
  “The tests that are available are rudimentary and their legal weight in court is not guaranteed,” the Fédération des policiers et policières municipaux du
  
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• Les Pervenches duo pushes the limits of Quebec wine capabilities

  08-09-2017 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Though small, Quebec’s wine industry is one of the most dynamic in Canada. The result is many excellent wines. This month, I am putting the spotlight on the wineries I feel are leading the way.
  The husband and wife team of Michael Marler and Véronique Hupin have taken many risks since they purchased a small vineyard in Farnham in 2000. Amongst the vines were a few rows of chardonnay, but the prevailing wisdom at that time was that Quebec’s climate wasn’t suited for Europ
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Sept. 8, 2017

  08-09-2017 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Under $16
  Carménère 2015, Reserva, Casa Silva, Chile red, $14.90, SAQ #11156625. Shows the red fruit and silkiness of carmanère, and just a touch of tomato leaf to anchor it firmly in Chile. The wood is nicely in the background. Hint of vanilla. Soft tannins, but not overly ripe. Powerful wine that doesn’t go overboard. Residual sugar: 2.8 g/L. Grape variety: carmanère. Drink now-2020. Food-pairing idea: Apéritif, salads, cold seafood.
  $16-$20
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• As summer fades, it's time to get your garden ready for winter

  08-09-2017 18:54 via montrealgazette.com
  We still have a little more time to enjoy the lingering effects of summer, but preparing our gardens for winter is on the to-do list now. 
  Steph Tanguay is a West Island landscaper and owner of Concept72, which specializes in outdoor living. He has worked on thousands of gardens in his 30-year career. Stephen Scheunert is the owner of Pointe-Claire Nursery and Landscape, a thriving West Island enterprise. We asked them to tell us what needs to be done in the garden in fall. 
  Mulch, mul
  
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• CHOM's Tootall on retirement: '40 years is a nice thing to shoot for'

  08-09-2017 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  True story: Meat Loaf meets Tootall for the first time decades back.
  “You’re not too tall,” Meat Loaf says.
  “And you’re not too meat,” Tootall says.
  Both were lying. But so it goes in the world of rock ‘n’ roll.
  We have a fairly good idea how jumbo-sized Marvin Lee Aday got tagged with the nickname Meat Loaf by a football coach. And when NBA-sized Robert Wagenaar would be asked how tall he was, he would simply reply: “Too tall.” The nam
  
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• Maxi store stabbing witness recounts hearing 20-year-old clerk draw her last breath

  08-09-2017 18:24 via cbc.ca
  A jury in the first-degree murder trial of Randy Tshilumba has heard graphic testimony from a witness who was shopping for groceries the night that 20-year-old Clémence Beaulieu-Patry was fatally stabbed while at work.
  
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• 'A call you never want to get': Villa Maria high school evacuated, but alarm unfounded

  08-09-2017 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Villa Maria College in N.D.G. was evacuated Friday morning, but Montreal police tweeted that the emergency alarm that was triggered was unfounded.
  Dino Chiarella said his 12-year-old daughter called him from her classroom to tell him the school was on lockdown.
  “That’s a call you never want to get,” he said as he waited with parents outside. He said his daughter, Angelica, seemed calm when she called but that some girls were crying. He the students had been moved to the gym at
  
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• Run for compassion to be held in Pointe-Claire

  08-09-2017 18:19 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds are expected to take part in the first ever run for compassion in Pointe-Claire Sunday, in support of the West Island Palliative Care Residence.
  
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• P.K. Subban Foundation releases song, ‘Unspoken,’ telling stories of Montreal Children’s Hospital

  08-09-2017 18:10 via globalnews.ca
  "Unspoken" tells the story of real life experiences of families from the Montreal Children's Hospital.
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: September 8

  08-09-2017 18:02 via globalnews.ca
  From a honeymoon cut short by Hurricane Irma to a survivor of the 2012 election-night shooting speaking out, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Murder trial underway in Montreal for man charged in death of Maxi employee

  08-09-2017 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  The first-degree murder trial is underway in Montreal for a man charged in the slaying of a Maxi clerk.
  
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• 'One hour too much': Maxi employee stabbed while doing overtime, jury hears

  08-09-2017 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Clémence Beaulieu-Patry was killed by a man she barely knew, the jury hearing the murder trial of Randy Tshilumba was told on Friday.
  Randy Tshilumba is accused of killing Clémence Beaulieu-Patry.
  In her opening statement to the jury, prosecutor Catherine Perreault characterized the April 2016 homicide as one that came out of nowhere as far as the victim was concerned.
  The victim and the accused attended the same high school but were not friends, the jury was told. Beaulieu-Patry w
  
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• Villa Maria College evacuated after false alarm

  08-09-2017 17:36 via cbc.ca
  Classes at Villa Maria College are cancelled for the day, after a false alarm led police to evacuate the premises late Friday morning.
  
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• Preventive evacuation underway at Villa Maria

  08-09-2017 17:36 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are doing a preventive evacuation at Villa Maria, a high school in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Brutal hydrotherapy regimen was just a placebo

  08-09-2017 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  It was 4 a.m. when the bath attendant appeared bearing an array of woollen blankets that would be used to bundle the patient snugly. Then a feather duvet was applied as a final cover. After several hours of sweating came a plunge into a cold-water bath, followed by a brisk 30-minute walk during which copious amounts of water were to be consumed. A bland meal devoid of any spices followed.
  Then the patient was asked to hold onto grab rails to be able to withstand a barrage of icy water poured fro
  
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• Montreal, Quebec unemployment rate edges up as Canada posts job growth

  08-09-2017 17:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Unemployment edged up slightly in Montreal, and the province as a whole in the latest job numbers unveiled Friday by Statistics Canada.
  Montreal’s unemployment rate edged up to 6.4 per cent from 6.3 per cent the previous month, and the Quebec-wide jobless rate increased to  6.1 per cent from 5.8 per cent. Quebec now has the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country. 
  However, Montreal’s employment rate is still hovering near 40-year lows, as the city has been seeing ma
  
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• Bike-sharing company Dropbike enters Quebec market - Montreal Gazette

  08-09-2017 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
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  Bike-sharing company Dropbike enters Quebec market
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  Dropbike bikes in Westmount. The bike-sharing service offers bikes at $1 an hour and requires no docks. Handout. Share Adjust Comment Print. There's a new bike-sharing service in town. Toronto-based Dropbike expanded to Quebec on Aug. 31 when it ...
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• Bike-sharing company Dropbike enters Quebec market

  08-09-2017 17:17 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s a new bike-sharing service in town.
  Toronto-based Dropbike expanded to Quebec on Aug. 31 when it launched its service in Westmount.
  Unlike Montreal’s Bixi system, Dropbike doesn’t use docks.
  “We have eliminated those expensive docks that most bike-sharing companies have to worry about,” said Dropbike spokesperson Farnia Fekri.
  The bikes are locked through a Bluetooth-controlled system, Fekri said. 
  “The lock goes through the back wheel and it work
  
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• WIPCR run for compassion

  08-09-2017 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Sep 8: Hundreds of people are taking to the streets in Pointe-Claire to support the West Island Palliative Care Residence.
  
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• Coroner's office rep tapped by CAQ to run in Louis-Hébert byelection

  08-09-2017 17:01 via cbc.ca
  Coalition Avenir Québec has chosen a spokesperson for the Quebec coroner's office to run in the Louis-Hébert byelection after the party's original candidate stepped down earlier this week.
  
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• POP Montreal prides itself on being ultra-indie and eclectic - Montreal Gazette

  08-09-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
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  POP Montreal prides itself on being ultra-indie and eclectic
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  16, starts at noon) A big free all-day concert featuring Buffalo Hat Singers, Rara Jazz de Montréal, Orkestar Kriminal, Klô Pelgag, Shades of Culture, Aba & Preach, Bonjay, Lunice and Kid Koala's Vinyl Vaudeville. Think About Life (Piccolo Little ...
  
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• POP Montreal prides itself on being ultra-indie and eclectic

  08-09-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  POP Montreal is throwing a Sweet 16 party, and you’re all invited.
  The 16th annual edition of the eclectic indie music and arts fest kicks off Wednesday, and the good news for Montreal alt-music fans is that the little fest that could is, like any self-respecting 16-year-old, still very much a rebel with a cause.
  POP is all about showcasing the best in independent music, mostly in smaller venues, with a particular focus on the clubs in the Mile End/Plateau area; ground zero for the Mo
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Tight security as Bissonnette returns to court

  08-09-2017 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Alexandre Bissonnette, accused of killing six Muslim men at a Quebec City mosque in January, is back in court under tight security.
  Additional evidence was given to defence lawyers at the Quebec City courthouse, including information from computers, said one of the Crown prosecutors, Thomas Jacques. But the disclosure of the evidence is not completed.
  A “marginal” element was still coming from the forensics laboratory in Montreal, Jacques said.
  Bissonnette, dressed in a grey sweater,
  
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• Today's panel: traffic woes in Montréal. How do you deal with traffic in the city? Share your experiences using the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-09-2017 16:58
  Today's panel: traffic woes in Montréal. How do you deal with traffic in the city? Share your experiences using the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SQ seeks other possible victims of sexual predator arrested in Ottawa

  08-09-2017 16:53 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is looking for more potential victims of a man who has been convicted on child pornography charges.
  David Sharpe, 37, was arrested in December 2016 in Ottawa after an investigation into child pornography. Sharpe was also charged with sexual offences against minors between 2008 and 2016 in Ormstown, Huntington and in Ontario.
  The investigation began after a tip from police in Queensland in Australia, and also involved Ottawa police.
  The SQ says anyone with
  
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• Montreal, Quebec unemployment rate edges up as Canada posts job growth - Montreal Gazette

  08-09-2017 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
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  Montreal, Quebec unemployment rate edges up as Canada posts job growth
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  Unemployment edged up slightly in Montreal, and the province as a whole in the latest job numbers unveiled Friday by Statistics Canada. Andy Blatchford, The Candadian Press. Published on: September 8, 2017 | Last Updated: September 8, 2017 5:17 PM ...and more »
  
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• Happening this weekend: Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope btmontreal.ca/videos/ovarian…

  08-09-2017 16:46
  Happening this weekend: Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope btmontreal.ca/videos/ovarian…
  
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• Montreal dance scene steps into autumn - Montreal Gazette

  08-09-2017 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
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  Montreal dance scene steps into autumn
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  Highlights of the season's calendar, including shows presented by Danse Danse, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Danse-Cité and others. Victor Swoboda, Special to Montreal Gazette More from Victor Swoboda, Special to Montreal Gazette. Published on: ...
  
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• Meet The Canada Latin Awards' New Artist of the Year: @GretchNofficial btmontreal.ca/videos/the-can…

  08-09-2017 16:31
  Meet The Canada Latin Awards' New Artist of the Year: @GretchNofficial btmontreal.ca/videos/the-can…
  
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• Montreal dance scene steps into autumn

  08-09-2017 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  September is upon us, so let’s peruse the Montreal fall dance calendar for the obvious and not so obvious delights awaiting fans in the coming four months.
  Those who feel like starting the season off with a bang can head over to Place des Festivals at 8 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16 or 4 p.m. Sept. 16 and 17 for a free outdoor show, Le Super Méga Continental. No less than 375 amateurs and professionals will dance for joy in a line-dance extravaganza. It’s the latest and biggest outdoor
  
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• MLB politely refuses Montreal’s offer to host games as Hurricane Irma nears Florida

  08-09-2017 16:16 via globalnews.ca
  Irma is expected to hit Florida on Saturday and despite some fluctuations in strength, it will likely stay a Category 4 hurricane.
  
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• Does Valérie Plante have the name recognition to beat Denis Coderre? @KBoulos joins @eliasmakos to talk politics btmontreal.ca/videos/does-va…

  08-09-2017 16:15
  Does Valérie Plante have the name recognition to beat Denis Coderre?@KBoulos joins @eliasmakos to talk politics btmontreal.ca/videos/does-va…
  
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• Over 100 boats on display at the In-Water Boat Show at the Old Port btmontreal.ca/videos/2017-in…

  08-09-2017 15:59
  Over 100 boats on display at the In-Water Boat Show at the Old Port btmontreal.ca/videos/2017-in…
  
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• Revitalizing Montreal’s garment district through art

  08-09-2017 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Organizer Annika Panzini joins Global’s Kim Sullivan to talk about a month-long, pop –up arts and culture project to revitalize Montreal’s garment district on Chabanel.
  
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• Global News Morning headlines: Friday, September 8

  08-09-2017 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Laura Casella has the Global News Morning headlines for Friday, September 8.
  
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• The Halal Guys are taking over Montreal

  08-09-2017 15:29 via globalnews.ca
  Discover why everyone loves The Halal Guy’s middle-eastern food with Global’s Laura Casella, Kim Sullivan, and regional manager Ghassan Safie.
  
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