Montreal Gazette
SYMPHONIC SATISFACTION
Rafael Payare is starting to feel like a Montrealer. The maestro embarks on his fifth season at the head of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal this fall. “Me and my family, we feel very welcome here,” Payare said. “We do not feel like we are living...
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DOBES EARNS LAURELS
Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes was named the NHL'S first star of the week after notching a 3-0 record, with a sparkling 0.962 save percentage. Herb Zurkowsky has observations from Dobes's second win over the Hurricanes in a span of six days.
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Air Canada CEO faces calls to resign
Despite criticisms from Prime Minister Mark Carney and demands from Premier François Legault and other Quebec politicians that he resign, Air Canada says CEO Michael Rousseau will remain in office as it continues to deal with the aftermath of a plane...
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Two pilots killed in crash at Laguardia Airport in N.Y.
Two pilots are dead after an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal collided with a fire truck while landing at New York City's Laguardia Airport late Sunday night. There were 76 people, including 72 passengers, aboard the Bombardier-built regional...
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SASKATCHEWAN LEADERS, EXPERTS BRACE FOR 2026 WILDFIRE SEASON
Kari Lentowicz was afraid of fire for the first time in her life as she drove away from her community of Denare Beach, Sask., the Wolf fire rapidly approaching from the northwest. “I said, `Well, I can always slam it into reverse.' So I drove into...
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THE HISTORY OF HEALING
Brenda Dunn-lardeau gazes at three copies of Pliny's Encyclopedia on the natural world in a glass case in the entryway of Mcgill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine. The influential Historia naturalis was written by the ancient Roman...
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BEARLY AWAKE
Black bear Genie grabs a box of fruits and vegetables after coming out of hibernation at the Ecomuseum in Ste-anne-de-bellevue yesterday. `We consider this to be the start of springtime,' the zoo's director of education tells
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CAQ seeing red with latest budget
In the end, part of the legacy will be red ink — lots of red ink. In tabling the 2026-27 Quebec budget Wednesday, the last from the Coalition Avenir Québec government before the end of its term in office, Finance Minister Eric Girard confirmed a...
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A CRUSHING BLOW
High winds pushed over a large tree crushing two cars on Patricia Ave. in Notre-damede-grâce yesterday. The winds, with gusts near 80 km/h, knocked out power to more than 300,000 Hydro-québec clients, delayed flights and commuter trains, and closed...
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REIGN ON HER PARADE
Fellow princesses Addison Martin, Emma Miles-jones and Emma Corriveau, far right, watch Kasey Lamer adjust the crown on St. Patrick's Parade queen Sarah Crotty on Monday. Katelyn Thomas explains five fun facts about the annual event.
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OFFICIAL INTRIGUED BY ANTI-DRONE SYSTEM FROM TRIO AT HEART OF EXPLOSIVES TRIAL
A senior official at the Department of National Defence says he wants to learn more about the anti-drone system three men charged in an Ontario gun and explosives investigation are working on, once their legal problems are resolved. But developing...
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THE COMPLICATED PRIDE OF LGBTQ+ HABS FANS
The next instalment of The Gazette's Habs superfan series Kat Anderson, a bartender/manager at Champs, and four regulars were sipping drinks recently at the sports bar and talking about why they love watching Habs games at the hip St-laurent Blvd....
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FROZEN IN PLACE
Kevin Barrière scrapes ice off his car yesterday, before the worst of the freezing rain hit the city and province. The morning commute was largely spared, but Hydro-québec outages increased as the day went on, flights were cancelled at Trudeau airport...
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MARBLE MASTERWORKS
You may have an out-of-body experience visiting the new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Stare long enough into the vacant, entrancing eyes of the works in The Torlonia Collection: Masterpieces of Roman Sculpture and you are transported...
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Oil prices could spill over to groceries
As war in the Middle East pushes the price of gas up at the pump, consumers could also soon be paying more at the grocery store, as increased shipping costs affect the price of food. But for Quebec farmers, who often don't set the prices they charge...
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RUSSIA MAY SEE CHANCE TO BENEFIT FROM MIDEAST WAR
For Russia, the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's network of anti-western partners, and it exposed Moscow's diminished influence on the world stage, from the Middle East to...
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ROCK STAR MEMOIR
The bassist who rose to fame in the 1990s playing with Hole and Smashing Pumpkins revisits those heady yet harrowing days in her tell-all book. Along the way, T'cha Dunlevy writes, she celebrates her parents and her Montreal roots.
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HOLE LOTTA TROUBLE
A man takes a photograph at the site where a large section of roadway collapsed on the Sauvagine Bridge in Châteauguay on Wednesday. The bridge partially reopened yesterday after an inspection, and repair work has begun, the city says.
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BATTLE LINES DRAWN
Hoisting U.S. and Israeli flags, and the lion-emblazoned flag of pre-revolution Iran, around 50 demonstrators gathered Wednesday to cheer U.s.-israeli strikes on Iran. “President Trump, thank you,” the people assembled in front of the U.S. consulate...
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Immigrants questioning their future
With the fate of a popular immigration program up in the air, some immigrants are questioning whether they have a future in Quebec. Immigration Minister Jeanfrançois Roberge axed the Programme de l'expérience québécoise (PEQ) — which offered status to...
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Pilot project helps unhoused people `reconnect to society' after hospital visit
Leo Mclean has been in and out of hospital with health problems and had to start using a walker, all while living full time on the street during the past year. But thanks to a pilot project launched in January by the health and social services agency...
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IS TRUMP RUNNING OUT OF TARIFF CARDS TO PLAY AHEAD OF CUSMA REVIEW?
Even the highest court in the land could not convince Donald Trump to stray from his love of tariffs. The U.S. president's yearlong imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was brought to a halt by the...
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THE NEURO'S UNSUNG HERO
One major sign of how Dr. William Cone has slowly faded from memory is evident the moment you step through the heavy art deco front doors of the Montreal Neurological Institute he helped found in 1934 on the flank of Mount Royal. Inside the lobby is a...
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All systems `Go' for bus messages
City buses will soon once again display the word “Go” in electronic messages supporting the Montreal Canadiens, the Société de transport de Montréal announced Thursday. And, following a personal intervention by French Language Minister Jean-françois...
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PORTRAIT OF A SUPERFAN
“To me, all this memorabilia is art,” Sunil Peetush says of the Canadiens shrine he has created in the basement of his St-lazare home. Brendan Kelly explores how the son of immigrant parents fell in love with hockey and how it helped him make friends.
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TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Speedskater Valérie Maltais shows off her three Olympic medals — one gold and two bronze — after arriving at Trudeau airport from Italy Monday night. She was joined by other weary Quebec athletes who were happy to be home, Leora Schertzer writes.
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Ukrainians build a life away from war
The last morning Victoria Nosenko was in her homeland of Ukraine, she woke up to the sound of air sirens at 5 a.m. on the day Russia launched a full-scale attack. “We understood that it was war,” she said. She frantically packed up belongings before...
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HOCKEY HEARTBREAK IN MILAN
Captain Marie-philip Poulin can't hide her disappointment after Canada's 2-1 OT loss to their rivals from the U.S. in the women's hockey final at the Olympics yesterday. Clinging to a 1-0 lead, Canada was just over two minutes from gold when the U.S....
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CANADA TAKES THRILLER
Canadian players celebrate after Mitch Marner scored the winner in a 4-3 OT triumph over Czechia in the men's hockey quarterfinals at the Milano Cortina Olympics yesterday. Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki scored the tying goal with 3:27 left in the game....
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Carney reveals ambitious `defence industrial strategy'
Standing before a backdrop of employees at Montreal's CAE flight-simulator plant and pilottraining centre, Prime Minister Mark Carney officially announced Canada's new “defence industrial strategy” to supply the military and increase Canada's domestic...
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A FINE HOBBY HORSE
As neighbours take pictures of the snow sculpture outside his Kirkland home last week, Shufeng Zhang looks over his work, created in honour of the Chinese Year of the Horse. Zhang tells Katelyn Thomas he wants to `bring some warmth to my community.'
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NORTH AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUFFERING UNDER THE STRAIN OF TARIFFS
The North American Free Trade Agreement was forged in the 1990s with the notion that greater manufacturing integration between Canada, the United States, and Mexico would benefit all three countries. But U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed NAFTA...
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MILLIARD WILL LEAD LIBERALS
Charles Milliard is the new leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. Officials Friday confirmed Milliard, the 46-year-old former president of the Fédération des chambre de commerce du Québec, was the only qualified candidate by the 5 p.m. Friday...
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LOVE, MONTREAL STYLE
Filmmaker Xiaodan He picked her adoptive hometown as the backdrop for the romance that unfolds between a repressed Chinese immigrant and a woman she meets through a dating site in Montréal, ma belle, which opens today. `I feel that this movie really...
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`THE NATION MOURNS'
Flowers are placed outside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northeast British Columbia, where one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country's history occurred on Tuesday. Among those killed were five students and a teacher, as well as two people...
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STERLING IN SILVER
Félix Roussel, from left, Steven Dubois, William Dandjinou, Courtney Sarault, Florence Brunelle and Kim Boutin were on the mostly Quebec team that finished second in short-track mixed relay yesterday at the Olympics. The Canadian women's hockey team...
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No surefire way to avoid catching a bug in a waiting room, doctors say
In the aftermath of COVID-19, a cough in a medical waiting room may still set off alarm bells for Quebecers — especially with a particularly intense flu season, around a dozen recent cases of measles and overcrowding in emergency rooms. Whether you...
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CANADA'S RACE TO BUILD NEW WARSHIPS
As U.S. President Donald Trump was lecturing Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Western leaders in Davos last month, Vice-admiral Angus Topshee was speaking to his officers about the new navy Canada is building to protect its sovereignty. In the...
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CANADA'S CLUTCH QUEEN
Ninety-two-year-old Julienne Bisson wasn't going to let the snow that swept over Quebec that Sunday in early January stop her from seeing her granddaughter, Canadian superstar Marie-philip Poulin, play hockey. The Professional Women's Hockey League...
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Reopening La Tulipe won't be easy, owners say
The owners of La Tulipe released a statement Wednesday evening about the $350,000 settlement the city has reached with the concert venue's neighbour of 10 years — and they are not happy. The City of Montreal announced this week that it had reached a...
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CAQ dismantles more of doctor law
Sonia Bélanger, the new health minister, has presented legislation rolling back most of the remaining controversial clauses of Quebec's doctor salary reform legislation, Bill 2. With former Coalition Avenir Québec health minister Christian Dubé — who...
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Whether it's gaping potholes or long blackouts, Montrealers are inured to broken infrastructure
Every winter, Montrealers are united in frustration against a common enemy in the city's streets: potholes. Montreal is arguably as famous for its rutted roadways as it is for its delicious bagels. Dodging craters in the pockmarked pavement requires...
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GIFT FROM A GROUNDHOG
Taylor Murray basks in the sun at Place D'youville yesterday, shortly after Fred la marmotte predicted Quebecers will enjoy an early spring. Those who heed human meteorologists will be dismayed to see the forecast calls for more double-digit deep...
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CANADA HAS PLEDGED EV SECTOR $50B IN SUBSIDIES. IS IT WORTH IT?
If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off in building businesses across several sectors that grow a national economy and generate thousands of jobs, industry experts...
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DEADLY FALLS ON THE RISE AMONG OLDER QUEBECERS
Had she known the northwestern Quebec city of Val d'or would be blanketed in snow in early November, Montrealer Anne Renaud would definitely not have worn her UGG boots, “which have absolutely no traction,” to visit her boyfriend there. The morning of...
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`RESISTANCE MATTERS'
Black History Month representatives Fred Anderson, left, and Aly Ndiaye are from different backgrounds and generations, but share hopes of a better world in bleak times. `I'm discouraged by what I see, but I'm not resigned,' Anderson tells Bill...
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`WE'RE NOT BETTER OFF'
It has been nine years since a gunman walked into a Quebec City mosque, killing six people and wounding 19. In an ideal world, we would have learned much as a society since the tragic events of Jan. 29, 2017. Positive changes would have been made....
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Marie-philip Poulin will vie for her fourth gold medal when she leads the Canadian women's hockey team at the Milano Cortina Olympics. René Bruemmer is profiling six Quebec athletes in the run-up to the Games, starting with Captain Clutch.
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Powerless residents frozen out of homes
Wendy Goldstein was hoping that the latest promise from Hydroquébec would be honoured Monday afternoon, after losing power at her Côte-st-luc home on Saturday morning. Goldstein's was among roughly 15,000 homes without power, mostly in the Côte-st-luc...
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`EVERYONE TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY'
At 15 years old, Danny Motyka dreamed of one day opening a psychedelics drug lab. Two decades later, the Calgary chemist leads a team developing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds, operating out of a warehouse-sized laboratory in the city's...
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GOING BACK TO THE MOVIES
Seats have been filling up more and more at three local indie cinemas — a trend that cinephile T'cha Dunlevy reports with surprised satisfaction.
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Aww, shucks: famed oyster bar Maestro SVP is closing in March
The last shuck is coming for the city's first all-purpose oyster bar. Maestro SVP is calling it quits in March after 35 years, the last 32 on the Main. Maestro SVP founder-owner Ilene Polansky, one of Montreal's more colourful local characters, cites...
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FIRE SHUTS DOWN BRIDGE
The Jacques-cartier Bridge was closed yesterday morning while firefighters battled a four-alarm blaze in an adjacent abandoned building, which was at risk of collapse. The fire was mostly under control by noon.
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CAR SLAMS INTO CONDO
A 36-year-old man was in a hospital yesterday after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a condo building at the corner of The Boulevard and Mcdougall Rd. A 47-year-old woman in the building at the time of the incident was treated for injuries,...
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PIECING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER
Rashid Gizitdinov and other tenants had to leave a decrepit Lachine building last year when it was ruled a fire risk. He rents an apartment from the city and tells Jack Wilson `government (housing) is better' than what he saw from private landlords.
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP'S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump's tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world's other major economy. South Korea's Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR IN QUEBEC
It will be a year of inevitable change if only because Quebecers must go to the polls in a general election Oct. 5 to elect a new government and a new premier. But after the roller-coaster political ride that was 2025, predicting how the politics of...
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LEGAULT RESIGNS AS PREMIER
Unable to turn back the tide of voter dissatisfaction, Premier François Legault Wednesday announced he is stepping down as premier and leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, a party he founded in 2011. While rumours had been floating for weeks that...
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Mayor says first budget is `rigorous and responsible'
Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says her first municipal budget is “rigorous and responsible” and signals a return to basics for the city after years of overspending. Presenting the city's 2026 budget on Monday, Martinez Ferrada stressed that...
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SHARING THE JOY OF MUSIC
Pianist Dorothy Fieldman Fraiberg set out to make chamber music more accessible to Montrealers with free concerts — an initiative that began 45 years ago and keeps on resonating, Susan Schwartz reports.
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MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT
Alex Wills was living on the 82nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, several years ago and was working as an executive in the oil industry. One day he looked out his window, which didn't open, and he thought: 'What...
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TAKING STOCK OF HABS
The Canadiens have reached the difficult part of their rebuild midway through Year 4. The focus is no longer just on the future, but also on the present with the team battling for first place in the Atlantic Division with a 23-13-6 record heading into...
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Jordan and Patrik Laine love `timeless charm' of Old Montreal
It's not every day you get an exclusive sit-down with one of Montreal's most impressive young power couples: mental health activist and wellness lifestyle influencer Jordan Leigh Laine and her husband, Montreal Canadiens forward Patrik Laine, both...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
'Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn't labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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`DOWNTOWN VIBE IN THE WEST ISLAND'
The place has been open only a few weeks and already, there are lineups out the door for a weekend lunch — despite the fact that it's rather snowy and brisk. Even the optimistic Anthony Gentile, the mastermind behind Café Gentile West Island on Sources...
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REM station doubles as art gallery with mosaics
At the new Édouard-montpetit REM station in Outremont, a passerby is overheard muttering: “It's like an art gallery in here.” While the REM'S 21st-century monotonous designs stand in stark contrast to the colourful mid-century tile work of Montreal's...
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Intense emotions soar daily at Trudeau airport
It was the first time Aminata Tandia wore a winter coat. She put a long black parka over her white traditional African robe and head covering minutes after arriving from her home country of Mauritania. While her first blast of Canadian winter was in...
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Could Montreal be the setting for Grégoire Trudeau's next chapter?
It's been a minute since Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and I first crossed paths on Montreal's mediascape nearly 20 years ago. To say a lot has happened in her world since then would be an understatement. The fearless force of nature that is Sophie is now...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada's digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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