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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If this doesn't galvanize Ontario to get out and vote, I don't know what will.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What happens in Alberta won’t stay in Alberta: “This could end Canadian medicare …Alberta’s two-tier health-care scheme could spread to other provinces…[creating] a private, for-profit fast lane for what should be publicly insured care—and a slower, public lane for those who can’t afford to pay.”
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Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/04/2026
AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases, study finds ft.trib.al/ShKE2dD
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AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases, study finds
Top models including OpenAI and DeepSeek make judgments too quickly when patient data is incomplete
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Toronto Mike @torontomike.com · 13/04/2026
I have questions regarding Rogers's dismissal of Tina Yazdani
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Amy B @abbarsha.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
US media needs to start calling Trump's shit out too! He's trying to control all of it except some independent news sources.
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hope50.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
'No faith in our system': Ottawa woman waits 16 months for MRI - Ottawa Citizen Do you know who is in charge of healthcare? The Premiers. Do you know how many Premiers are CONSERVATIVE? There is your answer. Conservative Premiers want PRIVATE HEALTHCARE so their buddies can profit off your sickness!
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As Trump’s approval falls, even some supporters are rethinking their loyalty, others deflect, others double down. Todd Beeton examines what this moment reveals. Also, new Epstein revelations from Gloria Horton-Young, and Jay Kuo on how MAGA tried to implement Orbán’s playbook here at home.
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This Week In The Big Picture
As Trump’s approval rating continues to plummet amid his deranged war of choice in Iran, the right is struggling to come to terms with the man they’ve hitched their wagon to all these years.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Freedom of Information request was submitted in November 2024. It is still outstanding, delayed forever in the hope the requester gives up, the news is no longer relevant, or the government can just retroactively change the law. Deplorable.
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hope50.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
theijf.org/article/albe... There should be NO PRIVATE AND FAITH-BASED SCHOOLS. One public school with tons of supports and options are all we need. Dani loves to give 70% of taxpayer money to private tuition schools so the elite can be oligarchs. You want Faith- go to church or churches pay taxes.
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Alberta premier and education minister had private meeting with groups behind push to ‘conservatize’ Alberta school boards and ban LGBTQ books
Private and faith-based schools, along with right-wing think tanks and parental rights groups, were invited to discuss education
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is outrageous! By giving his government the power to appoint ALL regional chairs across Ontario, Premier Ford is effectively seizing control of regional governments. School boards. Killing FOIs. And now, regional councils. Ford is dismantling our democracy. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
ctvnews.ca
Ontario to build on ‘strong mayor’ system by appointing ‘strong’ regional chairs
Ontario’s municipal affairs minister is proposing to appoint a slate of regional council chairs and give them additional powers, as the government has done with so-called strong mayors.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 02/04/2026
From strong mayors to strong chairs: The Ford government is giving sweeping powers to appointed regional chairs #onpoli
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Ford government giving sweeping powers to appointed regional chairs
Municipal Affairs Minister Rob Flack is giving sweeping powers to the regional chairs the government will appoint to head Ontario's eight largest regional councils.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Dunning Kruger poster boy, #PierrePoilievre, got fact-checked in his appearance on #JoeRogan. As usual, PP unleashed a torrent of misinformation & disinformation. #VichyPP is incapable of telling the truth and facts mean nothing to him, in his blind lust for power. #CdnDisinfo #cdnpoli
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Fact check No. 1: Immigration
Poilievre, citing no evidence, told Rogan that Canada admits one million immigrants per year.
But information from the Canadian government website shows that targets for temporary residents — students and work visa holders — make up 385,000 people for 2026, while permanent resident targets are at 380,000 people.
Combined, that's significantly fewer than the number cited by Poilievre.
Inflating immigration numbers is a known rhetorical tactic in far-right online spaces, where it functions to fuel anxieties about demographic Change.
Repeating it on a platform with millions of listeners legitimizes a distortion that creates division and harms racialized communities.thetyee.ca
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Fact check No. 2: Oilsands
Poilievre told Rogan that Alberta's oilsands have very few health or environmental consequences, stating that it has "no impact to groundwater... no impact to the environment" and that people who live near the oilsands are "very healthy."
But a 2024 report on the Athabasca oilsands released by scientists at the University of British Columbia suggests significant environmental and health impacts from the oilsands, meaning that, at best, Poilievre oversold the safety of oil development.
His characterizations don't reflect scientific research and they sideline those most affected.thetyee.ca
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Fact check No. 3: Seed oils
One of Rogan's favourite topics is health and diet, so it wasn't surprising to hear him discuss seed oils with Poilievre. They talked about how beef tallow or butter is better for people's health than foods made from seed oils.
This claim, popular among wellness influencers, has been debunked by the Harvard School of Public Health in multiple scientific articles.
Canada is also the largest exporter of canola oil in the world, so when Poilievre failed to push back against Rogan's health misinformation, he tacitly supported an idea that harms the very trade he was purportedly aiming to bolster with his appearance on the podcast.calgaryjournal.ca
When Poilievre started making these claims, the Bank of Canada took the rare step of refuting the fact that it actually prints money on X (formerly Twitter).
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre discusses inflation with Jordan Peterson in January. GRAPHIC BY: SARAH PALMER, PHOTO:
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"We bought existing gov't bonds from banks on the open market. Why? This helped unblock frozen markets at the start of the pandemic. It let households, companies and governments access funding when they really needed it," said the BOC in a post.
"We did not print cash to pay for the bonds," the central bank added.
Quantitative easing explained
When pandemic restrictions were well underway, the BOC took a quantitative easing approach. To help make it easier for Canadians and businesses to borrow money, the central bank sometimes
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction trial www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial
The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers
Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.
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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
To the shock of NO ONE...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Big mistakes are being made.
theguardian.com
Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy
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Drew Curtis @drewcurtis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
And now some actual good news
smithsonianmag.com
This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water
Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#Canada: Journalist Rachel Gilmore has faced intimidation from white nationalists after exposing them. We stand with her and demand an in-depth investigation. Intimidating journalists for holding extremists to account constitutes an attack on press freedom. @unifor.org @cwacanada1.bsky.social
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Canada: Journalist faces intimidation from white nationalists after exposing them / IFJ
On 4 March, two men with links to a white nationalist group approached Canadian journalist Rachel Gilmore at a music venue and attempted to intimidate her. It happened after Gilmore published an inves...
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Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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These Canadians are helping white supremacists profit from hateful livestreams | CBC News
A Canadian streaming platform is helping white supremacists who have been kicked off mainstream social media continue to profit from hateful content, an investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate has fou...
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it
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Adrian Griffin @agriff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thankful and grateful for great reviews that still come out 2 years since my book was launched!
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Liberals🇨🇦🇺🇦 @saynotobs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#FollowTheMoney #NeverVoteConservative #FordIsCorrupt #FordFailedOntario
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 19/03/2026
Alberta’s Smith seeking clearance for interference briefings, Nenshi questions intent
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Alberta’s Smith seeking clearance for interference briefings, Nenshi questions intent
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is seeking security clearance to receive briefings on foreign interference in her province, but the leader of the Opposition says she shouldn't be trusted
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LaurenSJ @laurenshirleyj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Canadian white supremacists paid Nigel Farage for video trolling Hamilton mayor" #cdnpoli
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Canadian white supremacists paid Nigel Farage for video trolling Hamilton mayor
A Canadian neo-Nazi group employed right-wing British politician via Cameo to make a short video promoting one of their events in Hamilton, Ont., and directly addressing Mayor Andrea Horwath after she...
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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Poilievre is connected to them... It's in the article... thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee
Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Adrian Griffin @agriff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Sad little punk with an oversized sense of his intellect that he flaunts without shame because he’s a little, white, rich kid whose entire world view revolves around him.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 08/03/2026
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event
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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a screen that says have some respect
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a screen that says have some respect
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John Pearce @johnpearce650.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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Randy 59 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ran-dy59.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is one fantastic article. Naysayers be damned. We’re going places, so stop your snivelling.
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Liberals🇨🇦🇺🇦 @saynotobs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'd say this is a five alarm fire, on why peepee and his #MapleMAGAt party should never be in power. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦 #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou #NeverPoilievre #NeverVoteConservative #PierrePoilievreIsAMapleMAGAt #PierrePoilievreIsAFascist #PierrePoilievreHatesCanada www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/p...
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Poilievre Mapped: His Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Right-wing Activists
Koch Industries, Elon Musk’s X Corp., Loblaws, Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, the Canadian Gas Association, Rumble Canada, Rebel News, Canada Proud, and Facebook. These are just a handful of the corpora...
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Kate @georgiasmum.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The media just won’t address this, it’s not in their conservative, click oriented character. Therefore, we all must keep this story moving through the airwaves.
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PermaConfused @permaconfused.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Wow. This could be incredible. BBC News - Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.
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ConstanceOnt🇨🇦 @constanceont.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Canadians have Rights under the Canada Healthcare Act yet Canadians continue to DIE waiting for surgery! *Our operating rooms sit empty while Ford funds private care! @mark-carney.bsky.social
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 02/02/2026
Michael Spratt: Misrepresentation is no longer an occasional lapse or rhetorical flourish. It has become a strategy that trades accuracy for outrage and treats public trust as collateral damage. #canpoli
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For Today’s Conservatives, Misinformation Is the Norm | The Tyee
Pierre Poilievre’s post about my client was false. It reached half a million people.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is far worse than Watergate and should be the end of Gabbard, Patel, and Trump.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/02/2026
Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the U.S. Supreme Court's inner workings, Chief Justice John Roberts imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees. People familiar with them said they appeared to be more forceful.
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How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.
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Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... Smith ‘remains focused’ on making deals with U.S. amid tariff threats Smith is a traitor to Canada! #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #UCPCorruption #Canada #RecallAllUCP #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPFacists #DanielleSmithIsASeparatist
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Smith ‘remains focused’ on making deals with U.S. amid tariff threats
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t want a spat between the Canadian prime minister and the U.S. president to take away the focus from finding a way to make a deal that satisfies both countries.
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Kate @georgiasmum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are our own best allies!
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Adrian Griffin @agriff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Come on, call it what it was, murder. Who’re you protecting? In the end, they come after you.
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Cheryl Lynne Bradley - Canadian Author @cheryllynnebradley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pattison Group is selling land in Hanover, Virgina for an ICE holding facility
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
And so it begins. The payback for standing up to Trump is coming. Count on Trump and MAGA Maple attempting to tear our nation apart by reaching out to the false losers in the Alberta separatist party and Donbass Danielle Smith. Watch the traitors come out from under their rocks.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
File this one under... who f--king cares what Pierre Poilievre and the American owned National Post thinks at this crucial moment in our nation's history? Seriously.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Ford’s cash transfer did not improve access to cataract surgery for Ontarians overall — only the richest Ontarians got improved access to cataract care” thelocal.to/cataract-sur... #onpoli #ONhealth
thelocal.to
How Privatized Cataract Surgery Helped Ontario’s Wealthiest—and Left Others Behind | The Local
Why a routine surgery offers a window into the possible future of care in this province.
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Adrian Griffin @agriff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Of course he did, they’re financing it
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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