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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yet Canada continues to tax wages way more than the #1 source of wealth—rising land values Is anybody really surprised that inequality keeps growing?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

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The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Proposal for windfall tax on UK arms firms that fuelled Saudi war crimes in Yemen www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
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Proposal for windfall tax on UK arms firms that fuelled Saudi war crimes in Yemen
BAE Systems and Rolls Royce made an estimated £3.9bn in profit from arming the 2015-22 Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.
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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today’s legislation was very carefully worded so that virtually any labour dispute could qualify if employers asked for it to - and instead of guardrails, gives the Minister broad powers to intervene. www.thestar.com/business/uni...
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Unions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’
Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ordinary people wouldn’t have to make repeat “sacrifices” if ultra-rich people paid their fair share. #taxtherich and hold their enablers accountable.
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DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney wants us to believe that we can’t do anything without rich people’s money. Spoiler: We can.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why Patriotic Calls to Support 'Canada's' Oil Ring Hollow via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Why Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil Ring Hollow | The Tyee
As Trump’s US rakes in oilsands profits, we’re sold a clouded narrative of energy sovereignty.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mark Carney is selling his “productivity mega deduction” as a way to boost investment. But decades of corporate tax cuts have instead fuelled record profits, rising dividends, and historic wealth inequality, write Jared A. Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social.
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Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?
Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Since Canada began cutting corporate taxes in the 1980s, dividends, which are disproportionately paid out to the richest one percent of Canadians, have increased from five percent of GDP to over 12 percent of GDP today."
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good old neoliberal transfer of wealth to the rich. "We already have one year of data from the prime minister’s latest round of corporate handouts. Investment has not budged. What has increased is corporate profits, which have once again reached record highs." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?
Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It should come as no surprise that a federal government that has fallen victim to corporate capture produces tax policy benefiting corporations, their wealthy owners, and their enablers. The productivity mega-deduction is just another escalation in Carney's anti-tax crusade. #cdnpoli
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Canada doesn’t lack capital; we lack investment in what Canadians actually need for a fairer, sustainable future. The Canada Investment Summit is being sold as a win for all of us, but it’s just more neoliberalism catering to global capital and the ultra-rich—the exact policy that birthed Trumpism.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Any country that fails to address wealth and income inequality in a timely manner creates the conditions for authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and fascism. America is living through that lesson today; it’s up to us in Canada to ensure we won’t soon have to follow suit.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I just submitted a comment to Toronto City Council for consideration this Wednesday, demanding they pass a Moratorium on AI Data Centres NOW! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/mora...
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FLOOD CITY COUNCIL'S MOTION COMMENTS — AI DATA CENTRE MORATORIUM NOW!
On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. Bi...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We’re literally dragging western capitalism’s dead carcass around, hoping for a resurrection.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Sad Monkey Tearing Up and Crying
ALT: Sad Monkey Tearing Up and Crying
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Canada has a simple choice to make: allow Big Oil’s excess war-driven profits to go directly into the pockets of US/foreign investors and Canada’s richest, or tax those unearned gains and invest back into Canadians and a transition to a future-ready green economy. #cdnpoli
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Going to bed early so I don’t read the news again.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The objections to Bernie Sanders’s proposal for an AI sovereign wealth fund simply don't hold up to scrutiny.
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The Criticisms of Bernie’s AI Wealth Fund Idea Don’t Hold Up
Bernie Sanders has proposed making artificial intelligence providers hand over 50% of their stock to a US sovereign wealth fund. Criticisms of the idea, ranging from AI skepticism to arguments against public ownership, have not been compelling.
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James 🇨🇦 @jemotluk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"A Canadian wealth tax could constrain the growth of billionaire wealth and raise $40 billion a year." A strong PM, sincerely concerned about nation building, would do just that instead of offering billionaires tax free status and the rest of us austerity #cdnpoli
thestar.com
Linda McQuaig: A wealth tax could transform our world
Although scorned today, America’s robust taxation of the rich in the middle of the last century amounted to an astonishing achievement of popular democracy, with huge public benefits.
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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Canada's natural resources are our common wealth being plundered by Big Oil. It's time to capture some of it to pay us common wealth dividends, like Alaska. 2 in 3 Canadians (all parties) support a windfall tax that can raise more in its first year than Canada’s entire ‘sovereign wealth fund’.
Globe and Mail opinion piece argues for taxing windfall oil profits as Canadians face higher fuel costs and inflation.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
U.S./Iran peace deal has broken down... again. Go read this and share with your friends and family. Canada needs a windfall tax to rein in war profiteering now!
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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“CUSMA is particularly valuable to the Canadian economy because it exempts nearly 90 per cent of Canada's exports to the U.S. from the tariffs Trump has imposed since his return to the White House.” Not really. The CUSMA exemption is arbitrary. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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U.S. declines to extend CUSMA trade deal with Canada, Mexico | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration officially announced that it's opting not to extend its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, triggering what are expected to be tough negotiations on am...
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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Shocker. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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U.S. rejects CUSMA renewal, triggers annual review process, cites deal’s ‘shortcomings’
The trilateral trade deal between Canada, the United States and Mexico, known as CUSMA, will enter an annual review process, as U.S. officials opt not to extend the agreement.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The web pushed me out into reality. Reality pulled me back into the web.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The whole concept of the rule of law becomes meaningless when members of Cabinet can choose corporations, organizations or individuals to enjoy an exemption from almost any law. 2/ www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
policyalternatives.ca
Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws | CCPA
About the authors Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault Silas Xuereb
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Mark Carney is undermining the rule of law is with various pieces of legislation that let politicians unilaterally declare exceptions to various laws. So Canada is becoming a place where the current government picks and chooses where, when, & to whom our laws will or won't apply. 🧵1/
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney stands in front of four images. 

In the top left corner behind Carney we see two business executives looking chummy together in a well lit corporate office. Text overlaying the image says "Bill C-15." A word bubble emerging from Carney's mouth clarifies part of what that legislation permits: "Cabinet can choose corporations to be exempt from having to follow federal laws."

In the bottom left behind Carney we see uniformed Canadian Border Patrol Agents, with text overlaying the image that says "Bill C-12." A word bubble emerging from Carney's mouth identifies a problem with that legislation: "Politicians can revoke groups' immigration status without oversight or due process."

Behind Carney on the right we see two more images. On the top, cooks are prepping ingredients in a kitchen. On the bottom, a man in a hazmat suit sprays a cloud of pesticides. Text overlaying the intersection point between the two images says "Bill C-30." A word bubble emerging from Carney's mouth specifies part of what's in that particular piece of egregious legislation: "Cabinet can override food safety guidelines and authorize use of banned pesticides."
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Taxes aren't a "cost," they're an investment in our society and in a better future for everyone. Being anti-tax is just being anti-government but dressing it up in a different hat.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I can’t put it into words and I can’t explain why, but Toy Story 5 is the perfect movie for right now. And I feel like it was made just for me + my generation) Well done #Pixar
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/06/2026
Ms. Rachel – who has become an advocate for children’s rights in Palestine and immigrant jails in the U.S. – spoke of the over 58,000 children in Gaza who have lost one or both parents during the genocide.
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Ms. Rachel Hosts Press Briefing on Israel’s Targeting of Palestinian Children
Ms. Rachel spoke with a UN specialist who found Israeli snipers and quadcopters intentionally targeted Palestinian kids.
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Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This needs far more attention than it is currently getting. I'm really happy to see that @policyalternatives.ca have created a dedicated health policy desk under @alonghurst.bsky.social to fight back and protect Medicare.
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Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is an outrageous state of affairs. This kind of degradation of our healthcare services paves the way for what Alberta is doing - undermining Medicare and allowing privatization under the pretense of allowing people the choice to pay to skip wait times. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
thestar.com
Canada’s emergency departments are in worse shape than before the pandemic. This is how bad it’s gotten
An analysis by CIHI found that one in 10 patients who required admission to hospital last year were forced to wait more than two days in Emergency.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“Technofeudalism is cyberpunk without the punk.” - @ypsahbaz.bsky.social
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A new report has found that Ontario has the most high-net-worth families in Canada, with 44 per cent of the country’s billionaire families living in the province. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
ctvnews.ca
New data reveals which province has the most billionaire families
A new report has found that Ontario has the most high-net-worth families in Canada, with 44 per cent of the country’s billionaire families living in the province.
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Silas Xuereb @silasxuereb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
After our report on wealth inequality at the national level a few months ago, @obsqcinegalites.bsky.social approached me to ask whether we could produce similar estimates for the provincial level. A few months later, here's the result!
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Canadians for Tax Fairness @c4tf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New report: Extreme wealth inequality is soaring all across Canada — good thing we've got a wealth tax for that! 🎩🥂 See how your province stacks up here: bit.ly/C4TFProvWealth
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Show me the money: A provincial overview of extreme wealth in Canada
A provincial overview of extreme wealth in Canada New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is part of a new wave of global political leaders at the subnational level advocating for and implementing measures...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“The government is once again leaving money on the table at a time when it is crying poor repeatedly” @c4tf.bsky.social ED Jared A. Walker A luxury tax on cars, planes and boats yielded more than $900 million before it was cancelled in the fed budget last fall. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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Luxury tax scaled back: ‘We really underestimate the wealth that exists in the Canadian economy’
A luxury tax on cars, planes and boats yielded more than $900 million before it was scaled back amid concerns about the negative effect on manufacturers.
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Opinion: Big oil makes billions as Canadians face Iran-war inflation. We need a windfall tax @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Big oil makes billions as Canadians face Iran-war inflation. We need a windfall tax
The charge could generate up to $46-billion over the next year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 18/06/2026
Two in three Canadians support a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry, a solution tailor-made for this exact crisis. By @policyalternatives.ca executive director, @peggynash.bsky.social and @c4tf.bsky.social executive director, Jared A. Walker. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Big oil makes billions as Canadians face Iran-war inflation. We need a windfall tax
The charge could generate up to $46-billion over the next year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Discontent.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Many people need to hear this. The only people the rich 'create wealth' for is themselves. This is why despite the US getting 40x richer in the last 50 years, you are poorer than ever.
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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12/06/2026
big fascist vibes
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you live in Parkdale—High Park, sign my petition — I will continue to deliver signatures directly to MP Karim Bardeesy on your behalf: www.dianachanmcnally.ca/billybishop Call or write your MP: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...
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Stop Ford's Billy Bishop Takeover
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Yesterday, I deputed to City Council about a staff report detailing a multitude of impacts if the Billy Bishop airport expansion moves forward. We've pushed the federal government to react, and together, we can push them to stop the expansion! youtu.be/PejrYp-ye6E
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Deputing on Billy Bishop: We Must keep Pushing!
YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
4.3 million people have already been dropped from Snap benefits and with 14 million children already living in food insecure households they have made food pantries working past capacity. This can't continue. Vote blue everyone. #USDemocracy www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Millions lose SNAP benefits as One Big Beautiful Bill’s stricter requirements kick in
SNAP enrollment has fallen sharply nationwide since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. More than 3.5 million people have lost access to the food assistance, as states implement...
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Mr. Javaid @mrjavaid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In Star Wars terms, what part of the story are we in right now?
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#ToPoli #NoJets
When: Tuesday, June 16, 7–8 p.m.
Where: Zoom

What we’ll cover:
- Learn about the devastating impact the proposal to expand the Toronto Island Airport would have on the city’s waterfront and islands, with Norm Di Pasquale, NoJetsTO Program Manager at Environmental Defence
- Hear from Dr. Mili Roy of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) on how it would impact the health of Toronto residents
- Learn why the federal government holds the power to stop this expansion — and why they must act now
- Find out what you can do to save our waterfront
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