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• Oxfam Campaign: What she knows matters

  21-10-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  According to a new report from Oxfam Canada, gender equality is the most significant determinant of peacefulness in a society. Oxfam Canada’s Women’s rights policy and advocacy specialist Brittany Lambert joined Neetu Garcha to talk about that report and a new campaign “What She Knows Matters.”
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Civic chaos or more of the same? A look at the election results

  21-10-2018 23:26 via vancouversun.com
  After nearly a decade of alignment on crucial issues of housing and transportation, B.C.’s two largest cities are now at odds. Vancouver is yin to Surrey’s yang, while Burnaby (the third most populous city) straddles the divide.
  Housing dominated every race in Metro Vancouver and the civic election results indicate a deep divide over how to maintain affordability for low- and middle-income earners, how to house the homeless and how not to destroy neighbourhoods’ character and l
  
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• Voters approve Vernon cultural centre in referendum

  21-10-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  The regional district has been given the green light to borrow $25-million for the project.
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Tim Schaller finally carving out niche as Canucks’ fourth-line fixture

  21-10-2018 23:23 via theprovince.com
  Tim Schaller looked lost in the preseason.
  A new city and new systems played into it to a degree, but the free-agent acquisition was rightfully scratched the first two regular-season games. It was like everything the Vancouver Canucks winger was supposed to bring — feisty forechecking, hitting and a penalty-kill presence — had vanished. He went pointless in five exhibition games and you never noticed him.
  He was a step behind the play and hesitant and far from the guy who was on the
  
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• Voter turnout fails to crack 40% across most of Lower Mainland

  21-10-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  In the cities of Vancouver and New Westminster, turnout actually dropped from 2014.
  
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• Vancouver Island’s Cam Levins sets new Canadian marathon record at Toronto Waterfront Marathon

  21-10-2018 22:38 via theprovince.com
  TORONTO — Cam Levins chased a mark that had eluded Canada’s fastest marathon men for more than four decades Sunday. And in the process, he wrote his own comeback story with every powerful step.
  The 29-year-old from Black Creek, near Courtney, shattered the Canadian marathon record — in his debut at the distance — at the Toronto Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon, erasing the pain and frustration of three injury-plagued seasons.
  “Entering the last 10 kilometres of this r
  
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• PacNet founder fights B.C.'s attempt to collect cancelled tax rebates from her personally

  21-10-2018 22:38 via vancouversun.com
  The founder of PacNet Services Ltd. is fighting an attempt to collect over $2.5 million from her personally, money the province says the high-profile company owes for tax rebates it received between 2012 and 2015, but for which it no longer qualifies.
  Rosanne Day is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to reverse the provincial assessment and to declare she is not personally liable for any alleged failure by PacNet to send back the money, according to documents filed in court.
  Attorney-General David Eb
  
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• Nanaimo Election Results: Leonard Krog's win is trouble for Horgan government

  21-10-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — Veteran MLA Leonard Krog won Nanaimo’s mayoral race Saturday, setting the stage for a crucial byelection that could decide the fate of B.C.’s minority NDP government.
  Krog’s pledge to clean up a scandal-plagued city hall and restore order to a dysfunctional local council carried the day with voters, earning him a margin of victory of more than three to one votes over the nearest rival, Don Hubbard.
  “This is a great night for the city of Nanaimo,” Kro
  
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• Violence in prisons will rise with the end of solitary confinement, warns guards’ union

  21-10-2018 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  The national prison guards’ union is predicting increased violence behind bars as the federal government moves to end solitary confinement — pointing to the recent assault of a guard at Kent Institution in Agassiz as an example.
  Jason Godin, the national president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, said attacks on guards and inmates have been increasing as the use of segregation has decreased ahead of new legislation to change the prison system.
  “When thi
  
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• Canada Post union workers to begin rotating nationwide strikes Monday morning

  21-10-2018 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced Sunday that it will begin rotating strikes on Monday morning at 12:01 a.m. in Victoria, Edmonton and Windsor, and at 1:01 a.m. in Halifax.
  
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• Where does Vancouver mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart stand on the issues?

  21-10-2018 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart will be the next mayor of Vancouver, as the independent candidate emerged from a crowded field of 21 candidates, narrowly defeating the NPA’s Ken Sim. He will be tasked with implementing his agenda with a city council that’s split evenly between five right-leaning NPA councillors and five left-leaning councillors — three Greens, one OneCity and one COPE.
  So what is that agenda? Where is Vancouver headed under a Kennedy Stewart mayoralty? A look back at his elect
  
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• Derek Corrigan thanks supporters after election loss

  21-10-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  After five terms as mayor of Burnaby, Derek Corrigan was defeated on Saturday by independent candidate Mike Hurley.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Radical environmentalists have strong views on immigration

  21-10-2018 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  One of the first signs that North American environmentalists were uneasy about high immigration rates came from one of its best-known eco-warriors, David Suzuki.
  The Vancouver-based founder of the influential Suzuki Foundation was quoted in a French magazine in 2013  saying Canada’s immigration policy was disgusting because “we plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. … It’s cr
  
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• The collapse of Vision Vancouver

  21-10-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  One of the biggest stories of election night in Vancouver was the virtually complete wipeout of Vision Vancouver, the party that dominated the city’s politics for the last decade.
  
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• Surrey crash hospitalizes 3 with serious injuries Sunday morning

  21-10-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  Police said speed and impairment have not been ruled out as factors in the crash.
  
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• Sushi Making with Miku

  21-10-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver sushi hot spot, Miku, is celebrating its’ 10th anniversary. Executive chef Kazuhiro Hayashi shares a recipe for their signature dish.
  
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• Popping in with Dana Gee: Oct. 21

  21-10-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Dana Gee is popping in with the latest pop culture and entertainment news.
  
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• Douglas Todd: How radical environmentalists view immigration

  21-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the first signs that North American environmentalists were uneasy about high immigration rates came from one of its best-known eco-warriors, David Suzuki.
  The Vancouver-based founder of the influential Suzuki Foundation was quoted in a French magazine in 2013 as saying Canada’s immigration policy was disgusting because “we plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. … It’s crazy
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunny Sunday, with some late night fog

  21-10-2018 19:32 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – It’s going to be another sunny autumn day, as this run of beautiful weather continues in Metro Vancouver. If you haven’t gotten out for a walk and spent some time under a canopy of multi-coloured fall trees, today’s your day — Environment Canada is predicting Sunday sunshine and mostly clear skies, apart from some fog patches in the morning and late evening, so be sure to take it all in before the rain arrives later in the week to spoil the sc
  
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• Daily poll: Are you happy with the results of the Vancouver election?

  21-10-2018 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the morning after the municipal election, and what a ride Saturday turned out to be. The vote was close right down to the wire, but when the dust finally settled, well after midnight, independent candidate Kennedy Stewart had been elected the next mayor of Vancouver.
  Stewart finished with 28.72 per cent of the vote, just enough to edge out the NPA’s Ken Sim, who received 28.15 per cent of the vote. Stewart will preside over a mixed group on council that includes five N
  
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• Heavy advance polling wasn't prelude to improvement in voter turnout for 2018 municipal elections

  21-10-2018 18:55 via vancouversun.com
  Heavy advance polling in some locations and long lines at voting stations in other places hinted at a potential improvement in voter turnout for British Columbia’s 2018 municipal elections, but that didn’t really pan out.
  While Vancouver saw a 27-per-cent increase in advance voting ahead of the Oct. 20 ballot, 48,000 compared with 2014, and voting Saturday was marked by long lineups, it remained questionable whether turnout would surpass the 42-per-cent mark achieved in 2014.
  The Cit
  
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• B.C. municipal election wrap

  21-10-2018 18:01 via globalnews.ca
  It was a big night in Metro Vancouver, with new mayors elected in more than a dozen communities, including the region’s three largest cities.
  
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• First law firm in Canada focusing on eSports opens in Toronto

  21-10-2018 18:00 via globalnews.ca
  Two Toronto lawyers launched MKM group to help those who play video games professionally get an even footing in negotiations.
  
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• Three seriously injured in early-morning Surrey crash

  21-10-2018 17:58 via vancouversun.com
  Three people are in hospital with serious injuries after an early morning crash in Surrey.
  Just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, a grey Infiniti travelling north and a Dodge Durango traveling west collided at the intersection of 152nd Street and the Fraser Highway, Surrey RCMP say.
  The two passengers of the Infiniti and the one passenger of the Durango, all Surrey residents, have been transported to hospital with serious injuries.
  The Fraser Highway intersection at 152nd is closed as investigators t
  
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• B.C. Municipal Election Day: Kennedy Stewart elected Vancouver mayor

  21-10-2018 17:38 via vancouversun.com
  It’s voting day for B.C.’s municipal election 2018, the polls are closed and the results are in.
  B.C. residents had until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots in towns and cities around the province
   
  Independent candidate Kennedy Stewart is the next mayor of Vancouver.
  STEWART WINS NAIL-BITER IN VANCOUVER
  Former Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart has been elected mayor of Vancouver. In a vote that went down to the wire, Stewart topped NPA candidate Ken Sim by 984 votes.
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• Mike Smyth: Time for Surrey’s Doug McCallum to back up his promises

  21-10-2018 17:25 via theprovince.com
  All right, Doug McCallum: You said you could replace the RCMP with a brand-new municipal police force.
  You said you could scrap the city’s $1.65-billion light-rail transit system and build a fancier SkyTrain line instead.
  Now it’s time to see if McCallum can deliver. A lot of people have doubts that he can.
  But McCallum is going to get his chance after pulling off a stunning political comeback on Saturday night.
  McCallum was mayor of Surrey for nine years until he was knocked off by
  
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• Bo Horvat scores overtime winner as Vancouver Canucks beat Boston Bruins 2-1

  21-10-2018 16:58 via globalnews.ca
  Bo Horvat scored at 3:12 of overtime and the Vancouver Canucks edged the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Saturday night.
  
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• B.C. Municipal Election Day Live: Kennedy Stewart elected Vancouver mayor

  21-10-2018 11:27 via vancouversun.com
  It’s voting day for B.C.’s municipal election 2018, the polls are closed and the results are in.
  B.C. residents had until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots in towns and cities around the province
   
  Independent candidate Kennedy Stewart is the next mayor of Vancouver.
  STEWART WINS NAIL-BITER IN VANCOUVER
  Former Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart has been elected mayor of Vancouver. In a vote that went down to the wire, Stewart topped NPA candidate Ken Sim by 984 votes.
  Stewart, an indepen
  
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• Whitecaps Game Day: L.A.’s dudes look to keep riding a winning wave

  21-10-2018 11:00 via theprovince.com
  NEXT GAME: Sunday
  Vancouver Whitecaps (12-13-7, 8th West) at Los Angeles FC (16-8-8, 3rd West)
  2 p.m., Banc of California Stadium, TSN, TSN 1040 AMKEY MATCHUP
  Alphonso Davies vs. Jordan Harvey
  Ostensibly the reason the Whitecaps parted ways with Jordan Harvey in the Major League Soccer off-season was his lack of top-end speed, but he’s been a crucial contributor in LAFC’s high-risk defensive scheme that has them battling for first place in the West. He’s made nine straight star
  
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• Vancouver Election Results: Stewart wins nail-biter to become Vancouver's next mayor

  21-10-2018 10:58 via vancouversun.com
  Kennedy Stewart will be the next mayor of Vancouver, after winning a nail-biter of a race.
  It was well past midnight when the final results came in, after Stewart had been neck-and-neck all evening with Non-Partisan Association candidate Ken Sim.
  Stewart, an independent candidate, finished with 28.72 per cent of the vote, barely ahead of the NPA’s Sim with 28.15 per cent of the vote. For much of the night, the two front-runners exchanged leads and remained within a percentage point or two
  
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• Ken Sim concedes at the 11th hour

  21-10-2018 10:49
  
  A seemingly fractured left that busied itself with infighting for much of October was not enough for political rookie and NPA upstart Ken Sim to sift through and pick from the leftovers.
  
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• Tri-cities Election Results: Young mayors elected in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody

  21-10-2018 10:30 via vancouversun.com
  Coun. Brad West won the mayoral race in Port Coquitlam and Rob Vagramov beat incumbent Mike Clay in Port Moody, becoming the two youngest mayors in the Lower Mainland.
  “It’s cool,” said West. “But both in council and in this campaign, I have never identified myself as the young one because I think the issues I am speaking out about apply to all voters, regardless of age. Certainly, my plan is to bring my voice and my perspective as a young parent, but all of us need to be
  
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• Mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart to lead mixed Vancouver city council

  21-10-2018 10:30
  
  Independent candidate Kennedy Stewart beat the NPA's Ken Sim by 984 votes Saturday to become the city's new mayor, according to unofficial results posted by City of Vancouver.
  
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• Langley Election Results: Peter Fassbender fails in bid to return as mayor of Langley City

  21-10-2018 10:30 via vancouversun.com
  Langley City residents have elected one-term council member Val van Den Broek to replace retiring mayor Ted Schaffer.
  Van den Broek, who won with 50 per cent of the ballots, is a federal public servant with the RCMP. She first ran for council in 2014 and won. The 18-year resident of Langley obtained 2,446 votes in preliminary results.
  Peter Fassbender, a former education minister under the B.C. Liberals, failed in his attempt to return as mayor to the City of Langley, where he had been mayor fro
  
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• Abbotsford and Chilliwack Election Results: Henry Braun wins a second term in Abbotsford

  21-10-2018 10:30 via vancouversun.com
  Abbotsford gave incumbent mayor Henry Braun a second term in Saturday’s election, voting to keep council almost exactly the same, while Chilliwack opted for a new mayor in Ken Popove.
  Braun took 57 per cent of the vote, compared to 18.7 per cent for newcomer Eric Nyvall and 18.2 per cent for longtime councillor Moe Gill, while Popove beat incumbent mayor Sharon Gaetz by about 1,000 votes.
  Abbotsford council remained almost entirely the same, with former mayor Bruce Banman winning the spot
  
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• North Vancouver Election Results: Two new mayors after incumbents opted not to run again

  21-10-2018 10:29 via vancouversun.com
  North Vancouver city and district both elected new mayors on Saturday, but they have different visions about the pace of development on the expensive and congested North Shore.
  Endorsed by outgoing City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto, Mayor-Elect Linda Buchanan will continue to support the city’s rate of development, which has seen a major transformation of the waterfront and other areas into townhouses and condo towers.
  She disagreed with the public perception – and that
  
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• Delta Election Results: George Harvie elected in Delta on promise to work for a new bridge

  21-10-2018 10:29 via vancouversun.com
  Delta’s new mayor George Harvie said his top priorities include lobbying for a new crossing over the Fraser River and overhauling the building permit application process.
  ”We need a new bridge — that is the number-one concern I have heard in South Delta and North Delta,” he told reporters Saturday evening.
  Harvie was in front by a small margin after the advance poll results early in the evening and never gave up the lead.
  Harvie’s supporters cheered him as he entere
  
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• Kennedy Stewart gives victory speech after winning Vancouver mayoral race

  21-10-2018 10:16 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the full victory speech of Kennedy Stewart, the newly elected Vancouver mayor.
  
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• Vancouver goes Green on council, school and park board

  21-10-2018 10:15
  
  “It’s clear Vancouver is going green.”
  
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• Check out all the results from the Vancouver election

  21-10-2018 10:13
  
  Here's Vancouver's new city council, park board and school board
  
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• Kennedy Stewart elected mayor of Vancouver

  21-10-2018 09:52
  
  With the results from the last voting station coming in at 12:43 a.m., it appears that independent candidate Kennedy Stewart will be the new mayor of Vancouver.
  
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• Political veteran Libby Davies on Kennedy Stewart’s track record

  21-10-2018 09:43 via globalnews.ca
  Former B.C. MP Libby Davies speaks to Global News about why she’s backing Vancouver mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart and his track record as a politician.
  
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• Vancouver will not have a woman as mayor… again

  21-10-2018 09:40
  
  Once again, Vancouver voters failed to elect a woman as mayor.
  
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• Former NDP MP Kennedy Stewart elected mayor of Vancouver

  21-10-2018 09:38 via globalnews.ca
  In a finish that was much closer than many analysts expected, Kennedy Stewart has been elected mayor of Vancouver.
  
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• Vancouver independents fail to make inroads on council, park and school board

  21-10-2018 09:07
  
  Sarah Blyth received the most votes of any independent council candidate, but it was not enough to earn a seat.
  
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• Richmond advance voting results from one station have to be counted again

  21-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  "This is expected to take some time."
  
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• Giants drop second straight to Portland, but coach Dyck says he’s pleased with progress

  21-10-2018 08:59 via theprovince.com
  Michael Dyck was talking Saturday night about how happy he is with the progress of the Vancouver Giants.
  “We’re right where we want to be,” Dyck, the Giants head coach, said after Vancouver (9-2-2-0) dropped a 2-1 overtime decision to the Portland Winterhawks (7-3-0-1) in an entertaining match-up at the Langley Events Centre.
  “I liked the effort last night (in a 5-3 loss in Portland). I thought we played very well in Portland. I thought we deserved a better fate. And I li
  
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• Richmond Election Results: Mayor Malcolm Brodie wins yet again

  21-10-2018 08:54 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who has held the position since 2001, was handily re-elected Saturday night. The New York-raised lawyer drew more than 29,000 votes, almost four times second-place Roy Sakata.
  Controversial mayoral candidate Hong Guo, a real estate lawyer who claimed human rights complaints against China are “lies,” came in fourth, with more than 2,600 votes.
  All eight Richmond council incumbents ran again for office in the city of 200,000 — which is the most Asia
  
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• Victoria Election Results: Helps returns as mayor for a second term

  21-10-2018 08:49 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, who faced nine challengers for mayor, pulled off another win in the capital city.
  “I feel like we have a strong mandate to carry on,” she told reporters after the ballots were counted.
  Long lineups at the ballot boxes in Victoria delayed the counting of the votes. Anyone who was in line at a voting place when the polls closed at 8 p.m. were allowed to vote.
  Helps, 42, received 42.6 per cent of the vote compared to Stephen Hammond’s 29.3 per cent and M
  
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• Vancouver election results: Stewart, Sim neck-and-neck

  21-10-2018 08:49 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver election was running too close to call, with Kennedy Stewart and Ken Sim neck-and-neck as several city polling stations had yet to report late Saturday night.
  Independent candidate Stewart with 28.92 per cent of the vote and the Non-Partisan Association’s Sim with 28.02 per cent of the vote were locked into a nail-biter of a race, with 125 of 133 voting places reporting. For much of the night, the two front-runners exchanged leads and remained within a percentage point or two
  
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