Winnipeg Sun
BRADY, BALI BOY & BOMBER BEAST
Asking pro football players about their off-season typically generates a ho-hum response about home life and training. Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back Brady Oliveira lowers his shoulder into that stereotype and obliterates it like a would-be...
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Liftoff!
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is on his way to the moon after lifting off Wednesday aboard the Artemis II mission, marking humanity’s first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit in more than half a century. The 50-year-old from London, Ont., is...
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REIMER’S RECORD RAISES RED FLAGS
Dr. Joss Reimer officially begins in her new role as Canada’s new Chief Public Health Officer, replacing Dr. Theresa Tam, on April Fool’s Day. Manitoba residents who have “lived experience” with Reimer’s woke priorities for public health aren’t...
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CONVENTION CONTROVERSY
Wab Kinew’s speech at the federal NDP convention no doubt appealed to the dregs of the NDP, the socialist performatively aggrieved rabble gathered in Winnipeg to elect their new leader. The party, no longer the party of the late Jack Layton, Tom...
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Budget Betrayal
Unless something changes, the former Mcintosh Indian Residential School (IRS) will not be searched any further for unmarked graves. Representatives from Grassy Narrows First Nation say they have been informed by federal officials that funding for...
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Santos Shifts Stance
Point Douglas city councillor Vivian Santos made a big announcement on Friday but seemingly wanted it to go as unnoticed as possible. She waited until 5 pm to inform residents and business owners in her ward, and more specifically the area around the...
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Fielding charged with sexual Assault
A former Manitoba cabinet minister and Winnipeg city councillor is facing a sexual assault charge following an investigation by the Winnipeg Police Service. Police said Scott Fielding, 53, was arrested March 26 by members of the service’s sex crimes...
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Fake Firm Fiasco
A new federal report is raising serious concerns about how Ottawa is handling contracts meant for Indigenous businesses — and whether the system is being abused. Federal procurement ombudsman Alexander Jeglic says several government departments,...
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Transcona Transgression
A Winnipeg city councillor has been charged following a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving an adult man. The Winnipeg Police Service’s sex crimes unit began investigating in February after receiving a report from the...
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NDP Budget Disappointment
You spin me round, right round. That is the best way to describe Premier Wab Kinew’s budget. A lot of motion, a lot of messaging, but Manitobans are no further ahead. The government is promoting a plan to remove PST from certain grocery items. It...
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‘Stop truck 1. Stop.’
Clément Lelièvre says the pilots of the Air Canada jet that collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s Laguardia Airport likely saved his life and the lives of other passengers late Sunday night. The pilot and co-pilot of Flight AC8646 were...
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Tears of Silver
Heartbreak is heartbreak, no matter how you colour it. Kerri Einarson’s Team Canada had experienced the bronze version of it in two world championships. Today she’s feeling it in silver. The38-year-oldfromcampmorton, Man., dropped the world women’s...
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ONE TO GO
Going from first to nearly worst has been an adjustment for Victor Olofsson, but he’s handled it like a pro. Olofsson’s first goal for Calgary was the winner on Friday as the former Colorado Avalanche winger led the Flames to a 4-1 victory over the...
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Hydro Hikes Despite Promises
Manitobans will see Hydro bills rise over the next three years after the Public Utilities Board approved a series of increases tied to the utility’s worsening financial position. In a final order released this week, the board confirmed a 4% rate...
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CRISIS IGNORED
In just three months, six people have died in residential fires in Winnipeg. Another remains in hospital, fighting for their life. For firefighters, these are not numbers. They are people pulled from smoke-filled homes, families shattered in the middle...
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NDP has done nothing
One year after a Winnipeg woman died while waiting for heart surgery, her family and a national advocacy group say little has changed in Manitoba’s health system. Debbie Fewster died in 2024 after waiting more than two months for cardiac surgery,...
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FACTS MATTER
While Manitobans have begun the spring ritual of dodging potholes, politicians in Ottawa are falling all over themselves to participate in a time-honoured tradition of switching parties. For many Canadians, there is nothing honourable about our...
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Inflation Drops to 1.8%
Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 1.8 per cent in February, dipping below the Bank of Canada’s two-per-cent target as price pressures eased in several key areas, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The federal agency reported Monday...
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Oh’ CANADA, what has happened?
What has happened to Canada? Many Canadians are asking that question because the country they believed in feels different today. Confidence in the rule of law, public safety and political leadership has weakened. When citizens begin to doubt those...
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Jets WIN 3-1
The Winnipeg Jets snapped a two-game losing skid and beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Saturday afternoon. “I thought we were competitive on pucks,” Jets head coach Scott Arniel said in his post-game comments. “We knew that with their talent and...
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Winnipeg Doc Exposes the Truth
A letter arrived in my inbox recently from a Winnipeg physician. Dr. Lynn Stevens has practiced medicine in our city for 33 years. Her message was not political. It was personal. And it should concern every Manitoban. Dr. Stevens wrote to the...
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Paramedic gets Pink Slip
A Manitoba paramedic who refused to respond to a life-threatening emergency call near the end of his shift was fired by his employer and later disciplined by the profession’s regulator. A disciplinary panel of the College of Paramedics of Manitoba...
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Polling the Pain
Athe Manitoba Nurses Union says the province’s decision to cut back private nursing agencies before a public replacement system was ready has worsened staffing shortages, a claim echoed by a former nurse who warns the move removed a critical “pressure...
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Lagasse Walkout Exposes PC Turmoil
With the amazing advances in medicine in the last one hundred years, we are living longer and generally enjoying a higher quality of life as we age. Hip and knee replacements allow us to carry on with our lives in ways that was not possible only a few...
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Nakba Exhibit Consultants Are Anti-israel Activists
It looks like critics who were concerned about whether there would be bias in the upcoming Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) exhibit “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” had cause to be concerned, after all. When the exhibit was...
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Women’s Day
Sunday was International Women’s Day, a day meant to celebrate progress. The gains women have made in business, politics, and public life deserve recognition. But for many families, including mine, the day also brings back painful memories. My mother...
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Freedom of expression under assault today
What kind of country fines its citizens for expressing an opinion about biology? What kind of government inserts itself into everyday language and declares certain words mandatory? Canada is moving closer to that line. This month alone, two human...
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Winnipeg citizens deserve responses from city council
In the private sector, there is a simple rule. If you do not return your customer’s call, someone else will. In public office, that rule should be even stricter. Taxpayers are not customers by choice. They fund the operation whether they like it or...
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Manitoba Mom Dies Abroad
The daughter of a Canadian woman killed in a bus crash in the Dominican Republic says her family is still searching for answers three days after the incident that left another Canadian dead and 13 others injured. Amanda Fullerton of Lockport, Man.,...
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WMR Membership Meltdown
Heading into the August long weekend of 2024, regional power-brokers were brimming with confidence. The development blueprint they had composed for a private corporation called the Capital Planning Region had passed through the board of their operating...
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Bloodvein Blockade Battle
The Manitoba Lodges and Outfitters Association is urging the province and the RCMP to intervene in what it describes as an illegal checkstop operated by Bloodvein First Nation on a provincial road in Manitoba’s northeast. In letters sent to Justice...
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Jets bitten again in OT
Michael Misa scored the game-winner as the San Jose Sharks beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 in overtime on Sunday afternoon. Misa split between Haydn Fleury and Adam Lowry, before his tight angled shot beat Connor Hellebuyck to the short side at 1:40. The...
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Acceptable hate speech?
Canada has made fighting racism a national priority. Governments at every level have funded programs, revised policies, and strengthened human rights protections to confront discrimination based on race, religion, and heritage. That commitment should...
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WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR?
A listener of my Inside Politics podcast sent me a note this week that cuts to the core of a growing frustration. Jack from North Kildonan told me his property assessment jumped nearly 19 percent. His point was straightforward. If assessments rise...
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Prairie Power Play
Most of Canada’s highest-threat organized crime groups are now based in Western Canada, according to a new report from Criminal Intelligence Service Canada. The agency’s 2025 national assessment identifies eight groups as the most serious threat to...
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Slice of Outrage
There was a time in this country when we judged people by their actions. Not by who they once met. Not by who they worked beside. Not by what someone on social media said about them. Somewhere along the way, we replaced judgment with reflex. Consider...
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Thaw and Order
The end of the mid-winter thaw was accompanied by a spike in unthinkable crimes that chilled Winnipeg residents to their core. The grim reports painted a picture of a city that is being overrun by dangerous offenders. It started with two incidents on...
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Siesta Sabotaged
More than 26,000 Canadians currently in Mexico have registered with the federal government as authorities monitor a rapidly changing security situation in parts of the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday that Global Affairs...
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Mayhem at Mar-a-lago
An armed man in his early 20s was shot and killed early Sunday after entering a secured perimeter at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., according to the U.S. Secret Service. The incident happened around 1:30 a.m.,...
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More vacant houses, more fires — same city hall response
Burning down the vacant house. Troubling trend of vacant building fires in Winnipeg carries on in 2026. Gillingham Administration press releases persist with repeating the phrase “. . .WFPS responded to reports of a fire in a vacant. . .”. Insert...
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Next Stop: Gold
Canada will play for gold in men’s hockey at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games after a 3-2 semifinal win over Finland on Friday. Sam Reinhart, Shea Theodore and Nathan Mackinnon scored as Canada erased a two-goal deficit at the Milano...
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Hockey Heartbreak
Canada’s women’s hockey team will return home with silver after a 2-1 overtime loss to the United States in the gold medal game at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on Thursday. Megan Keller scored 4:07 into three-on-three overtime to...
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Floor Crossing!
Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has crossed the floor to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus, becoming the third Conservative MP in recent months to defect to the government side. Jeneroux, who has represented Edmonton Riverbend since 2015,...
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Food inflation soars
Statistics Canada reported an easing in the headline inflation rate Tuesday but a jump in the pace of food inflation amid tax changes and lingering pressures at the grocery store continue to put the squeeze on consumers. Statcan said Tuesday that the...
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Canada will play for Olympic Gold
MILAN, Italy — Marie-philip Poulin added another chapter to her Olympic career Monday, scoring twice to lift Canada to a 2-1 win over Switzerland in the women’s hockey semifinal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games. The victory sends Canada to...
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Apologies without accountability
Canada has developed a dangerous habit: apologizing endlessly while avoiding the harder conversation about accountability, results, and the future. Yes, history matters. Yes, the legacy of residential schools is tragic and painful. But somewhere along...
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EXCLUSIVE: Ambassador Hoekstra gives insight on Canada-us relations
I recently spent some one-on-one time with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. I wanted the conversation for one reason: Canadians are being fed a steady diet of political theatre about the Canada-u.s. relationship, and very little of it reflects how this...
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“DON’T GIVE MONEY TO CANADA POST”
New home construction across Canada is expected to cool over the next several years as economic uncertainty, higher building costs and softer demand weigh on developers — but Winnipeg is forecast to outperform many major cities, according to a new...
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Rec centres erode under Mayor Gillingham
A Winnipeg city councillor is accusing the mayor’s office of masking deep problems in the city’s recreation system, saying new renovation grants announced this week do not reflect what volunteers and community centres are experiencing on the...
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The potential benefits of a hefty vacant home tax
In Canada, there is a strong tendency to believe that a new tax is the solution to every problem. It’s usually wrong-headed, but there are times when a tax is exactly what is required to produce a benefit for society. The issue of vacant properties in...
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Westjet slashes Winnipeg Flights
Winnipeg travellers will lose two direct Westjet routes to the United States after the airline moved to cut back transborder flying following what it says was a sharp drop in demand last year. Westjet is suspending flights from Winnipeg to Atlanta and...
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It’s ‘Dead Wrong’ for Canada to call residential schools genocidal
In his widely-praised Davos speech, Mark Carney paid homage to a renowned 1978 essay by Czech dissident Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless.” In it, Havel tells the parable of a greengrocer who refuses to place a “Workers of the World unite!”...
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Gillingham aims to take your firearms
The federal government’s latest attempt to improve public safety may have good intentions. I’ve had many conversations with people who support it, oppose it, and fall somewhere in the middle. But the so-called “buyback” of firearms is a perfect example...
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KINEW’S FINANCIAL RECORD WORST IN CANADA
Manitoba has a premier who connects. Wab Kinew is a strong communicator, a skilled politician, and someone who understands how to win public support. On political performance alone, he does well. This column is not about attacking him. I have known Wab...
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Governor general’s salary rises automatically to $393,800
Governor General Mary Simon will receive an automatic salary increase this year under federal law, bringing her annual pay to $393,800, according to the Privy Council Office. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the increase amounts to about $1,317...
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Nurses say province rushed agency cuts without backup plan
The Manitoba Nurses Union says the province’s current nurse staffing shortages could have been avoided, arguing the government moved too quickly to limit private nursing agencies without having a fully functional public alternative in place. The union...
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Is Canada compromising human rights for China trade?
Canada is having a conversation that should make all of us uneasy. A new Angus Reid Institute poll suggests a growing number of Canadians are prepared to downgrade long held concerns about human rights and the rule of law in exchange for trade with...
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Manitoba political scuffles take focus from real issues
Politics in Manitoba is supposed to be about governing. Instead, we keep getting the same pattern: money, outrage, and distraction. Now the NDP has filed a complaint with Elections Manitoba over the Progressive Conservatives’ plan to accept proceeds...
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Pollievre easily won leadership review
Steve Outhouse looks relaxed on Saturday morning as he stands chatting with me at the BMO Centre on the Calgary Stampede grounds. Outhouse is the campaign manager for the Conservative Party and has been working alongside his colleagues to ensure Pierre...
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Jets Beat Panthers
Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) deflects a shot on goal by Winnipeg Jets center Cole Perfetti (91) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, in Sunrise, Fla. The Jets rallied for a 2-1 win over the...
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Manitoba receives lone failing grade in CFIB red tape report
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives say a new report on provincial red tape should serve as a warning for the province’s economic future. PC critic Konrad North said the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses’ annual Red Tape Report Card shows...
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FEDERAL BONUSES
Nearly all federal government executives received bonus pay last year even as departments fell short of many of their own performance goals, according to internal records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through access-to-information...
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School closure looms for Manitoba’s MITT institute
The Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology will begin winding down operations after a sharp decline in international student enrolment left the Winnipeg-based school financially unsustainable. In a statement posted to its website, MITT said...
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Major Bust in Extortion Case
A months-long investigation into arson and extortion targeting small businesses across Winnipeg has led to multiple arrests, with police still searching for two suspects believed to be part of an organized group that used fire as a tool to threaten...
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Carney deflects early election
He’s handing out cash, he’s provoking fights that get Donald Trump talking about annexing Canada again and releasing campaign-style videos, but Mark Carney says he’s not looking for an early election. The PM was asked about whether he was planning for...
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Veterans criticize Trump
A Canadian veteran said U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the contribution of NATO soldiers in Afghanistan show “a great deal of disrespect” toward those killed while fighting. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump...
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Springfield Quits WMR Over Tight Deadlines
Council in Springfield had already heard from numerous delegations urging them to vote to leave, citing the failure of Plan20-50 last year, when 12 RMS ultimately announced they did not support the proposed regional development blueprint. Plan20-50...
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Ryan Wedding Arrested
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who was among the FBI’S top fugitives and faces charges related to multinational drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, has been arrested, two people familiar with...
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Dialysis Neglect in Manitoba
WINNIPEG — Dialysis services in Manitoba are not being managed in a way that makes the best use of limited health-care resources, according to a new report from the province’s auditor general. The audit, which examined dialysis services between April...
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Home prices to rise
Winnipeg’s housing market is expected to pick up modestly this spring, buoyed by relatively affordable prices and lower interest rates, even as economic uncertainty continues to temper buyer confidence across the country, according to a new Royal...
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CEO touts Winnipeg as key to Flair Airlines’ growth
Flair Airlines says its growing footprint in Winnipeg is helping push down airfares, improve reliability and position the city for expanded service, according to CEO Maciej Wilk, who was in Winnipeg last week as part of the airline’s 2026 national...
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KLEIN: NDP squeeze on private nurses worsens Manitoba shortage
It didn’t take long for Premier Wab Kinew’s mistake to catch up with him. Earlier this month, Manitoba announced it would only work with four private staffing agencies to fill vacant nursing shifts in public facilities, and that change took effect...
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Dan David, Indigenous news trailblazer, dies at 73
Dan David, a renowned Mohawk journalist and the founder of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s news department, has died. His sister Marie David said he died Jan. 12 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 73. Karyn Pugliese, an APTN host and...
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CBC TOXIC WORKPLACE
A former CBC human resources employee is suing the national broadcaster claiming he was forced to leave a work environment so toxic and discriminatory there was a designated “crying room” so employees could deal with office stress. The lawsuit also...
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