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  1. 15H AGO

    The Sports Curse

    On SportsDavid MacfarlaneBiblioasis (2026) There were 6.9 seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter of a regular-season match-up between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Houston Rockets. It was a nothing game, really. The second of a back-to-back set. Wednesday-night filler before the NBA All-Star break that Sunday. The Rockets had taken the first game on Tuesday and looked set to take the second as they headed into the final stretch. Then Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard rumbled to life. The superstar has been plagued by injuries since bringing a championship to Toronto in 2019 and promptly departing for Los Angeles during the offseason. This year has proved to be different. The stat lines are starting to whisper that this might be Leonard's best offensive season ever, after 14 years in the league. However, that night in Houston, he'd made just three field goals in the first 36 minutes of play. A worrying quiet before something clicked. He'd double that number in the next 12, and he evened the score 102 to 102 in the final seconds. While not a sterling performance from Leonard overall, how that game ended was nothing short of brilliant. A flash of expertise and execution refined by a lifetime of dedication. Leonard received the inbound pass and drove past his defender, Amen Thompson, a supreme young athlete 11 years his junior. Thompson routinely teases his awe-inspiring potential with head-shaking displays of the sublime. But not here. After driving left, Leonard spun right and pulled up on a fadeaway jumper to take the lead with two seconds to go. He'd got fouled. Then he made the free throw. That was the game; the Clippers won. This sequence might be ordinary as far as the NBA goes, but if you watch the replay, and watch it over and over again, you see something closer to the divine. It's enough to make just another regular-season game feel like something. Sports speak to something deep within us It's difficult to write about sports. Not the mere box scores and play-by-plays of it all, but conveying what that thing is that carries through these variously structured physical acts into a person's entire being, like an electric charge. Canadian author and journalist David Macfarlane, who has covered sports in numerous capacities for decades, describes this "essential problem" as "impossible" in his latest book, On Sports, out now through Biblioasis. "It's like explaining sculpture with a paint brush, music with a bowling ball," Macfarlane writes. "Much as we like to think there is a connection between Roger Federer's miraculous shot and language, there isn't. Not really. David Foster Wallace can draw our attention to how good Federer is. He observes — very keenly observes — tennis greatness. But he can't explain it." On the court, pitch, ice, track — wherever — there is something about watching greatness unfurl in front of you that becomes transcendent. It's why sports are as big as they are, how they command so much cultural attention, and the reason they can be parlayed into a $2.3-trillion global economy: sports speak to something deep within us. "Sacred wouldn't be too strong a word. It's not one I'd use in my out-loud voice in the context of, let's say, a bar, with friends, watching a basketball game," writes Macfarlane. "But privately, in my personal ledger of what is and isn't holy, a beautifully executed crossover or alley-oop or fadeaway is on the saintly side of things." How does a person make sense of such a visual, experiential force on paper? As the English art critic and novelist John Berger said, "seeing comes before words." So language is a natural disadvantage. It might require approaching from an odd angle. "Watching a good swimmer is the visual equivalent of patting a dog's smooth head — something naturally, wondrously sweet and perfect," offers artist and author Leanne Shapton in Swimming Studies, a memoir about her experience as a competitive swimmer. That I can picture, as strange as it may be. T...

    16 min

  2. 15H AGO

    Calgary Re-imagines What a Museum Can Be

    Staff at Calgary's Glenbow Museum are gearing up to install its vast collection in its renovated home, called the JR Shaw Centre for Arts & Culture, which opens next year. Amidst hammers and drills echoing in the background — as well as the "oohs" and "ahhs" let out by the odd visitor touring the 312,000-square-foot building — archivists and curators are diligently preparing 36 exhibitions for the museum's 2027 reopening. Albertans have much to look forward to. The brutalist building's transformation extends to changes that go well beyond Glenbow's physical space, which has operated in its current location in downtown Calgary since 1976 after its founding in 1955. "We worked alongside Dialog, the architects, right from the very beginning to determine the things we needed to change to be more relevant to the community over the long term," Melanie Kjorlien, Glenbow's chief operating officer and vice-president of engagement, told The Tyee on a recent call. The renovation extends beyond physical improvements to the museum's quarters, she explained, noting that the JR Shaw Centre for Arts & Culture presents an opportunity to rethink the role Glenbow plays in southern Alberta by inviting residents to participate in the organization's direction. "This renovation has allowed us to implement fundamental changes that are going to be important for the museum for a long time into the future, and make it more responsive to the needs of the community," she said. The new Glenbow is clad in sleek concrete panels whose curved surfaces evoke the ripples formed by freshly fallen snow on the Rocky Mountain foothills. The stern brutalist facade that enclosed the museum for nearly five decades is now out of sight from the exterior; today, it is inside the building that the brutalist staples of bare concrete and exposed ductwork rise to prominence. With the museum's old carpeted floors, drop ceilings and drywall partitions gone, the concrete structure serves as a grounding backdrop to the artifacts and artworks to come, and it also tells a story of its own. Drill holes are visible where bolts once attached studs and drywall boards to the building's sturdy columns. Although the concrete floors have been impeccably polished, the traces left by the museum's past are evident to those who remember it. "Instead of covering up the memories of the building, we highlighted the memories of the building," said Robert Claiborne, the project's conceptual architect and a partner at Dialog. Revealing the unseen was a core principle of the facility's refresh. Subtle details in white oak point to a feature gained — or lost — to the museum's renovation, while strategically located windows frame the ever-changing skyline of downtown Calgary, situating museum goers in time and space. Unrestricted sightlines into the facility's storage and conservation areas remind visitors that there's more to this place than meets the eye. "Museums have traditionally had a presentation side and a back-of-house side," Claiborne told The Tyee. "I wanted to completely invert all of that and make everything visible." The building's honesty also exposes a difficult truth, albeit indirectly. As a colonial institution, museums have historically operated from a position of power, limiting the stories their exhibitions convey to those determined by settlers. The imposing architecture of museums around the globe was part and parcel of the institution's oppressive ethos. But this is changing. Who are museums for? Over the last century, museums have shifted their approach from being an institution about someone to being for someone, an evolution described by the late museum theorist Stephen Weil in his 2002 book Making Museums Matter. Linda Norris, an independent museum professional based in the United States, takes Weil's explanation one step further. She believes that, as museums become a community service, their being with somebody is paramount for the institution's efforts to meaningfully...

    9 min

  3. 16H AGO

    It's Time to Revisit Universal Basic Income

    Federal Politics CULTURE Federal Politics Labour + Industry Film It's Time to Revisit Universal Basic Income Especially for artists. It offers the hope and stability we need. At some point in the future, humans might look back at this period and sadly shake their heads. If we're still around, that is. Maybe some new species will have taken the lead. I'd be happy to see cephalopods or elephants in charge for a while. It's hard to look at the current state of the world and wonder how we managed to c**k things up as badly as we have. Especially when other options are right there, waving their hands wildly in the air, trying to attract attention. One of the most overlooked of these ideas is universal basic income, a social policy intervention that proposes a guaranteed income for every person, regardless of employment status or income level. It's well worth revisiting today, but it's also worth noting that universal basic income is not a new concept. It's extremely old. Earlier this week, humanities professor Will Glovinsky authored an essay in the Conversation tracing the origins of basic income. The closing of the commons in England from 1604 to 1914, he notes, gave rise to some of the very first guaranteed income actions. The idea originated with an act of grand theft on the part of the leadership class. "In the early 1770s, the magistrates of Newcastle attempted to enclose the town's common land and keep its rental income for themselves," Glovinsky writes. "The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world's first basic income proposal." "The English enclosures were designed to fence most people out from the very resources they needed to survive, rendering them dependent," Glovinsky continues. "'If grass or nettles they could eat,' Spence joked, landowners would fence them off, too." Inspired by Indigenous land practices, Spence advocated for the idea of basic income with a variety of methodologies including pamphlets, ballads and other publications. For his efforts, he was sent to prison and died in abject poverty. Since Spence's time, variations of the idea have been tried in countries around the world, often with remarkable success. The idea resurfaced recently in Ireland, with a pilot program dedicated to supporting artists. Instituted in 2022 as a means to help support the cultural sector as it emerged from the venue closures of the pandemic shutdowns, the initiative proved so successful that it has been made permanent. Basic income works: Lessons from Dauphin, Manitoba Reading about Ireland's program reminded me of a documentary about universal basic income from a few years ago. Free Lunch Society from Austrian filmmaker Christian Tod was released in 2017, but is perhaps even more relevant today. Many of the ideas broached in the film have greater import than they did almost a decade ago, a development helped along by a bevy of issues including political instability, cavernous inequality, climate breakdown, a global pandemic, the rise of AI. Add in a war for oil, the looming spectre of nuclear obliteration and heya! Might be time for a change. At the time of the film's making, some of these issues were already taking shape like thunderheads forming on the horizon. But the storm is well upon us now. In his documentary, Tod takes an expansive approach and examines how different basic income programs were instituted around the world. One of these was Mincome. A basic income program implemented in the community of Dauphin, Manitoba, under the auspices of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and then-NDP premier Ed Schreyer between 1974 and 1978, the results proved extraordinary. Naysayers who predicted that giving people free money meant that citizens would fall into lives of sloth and laziness had to eat their words. The success of Mincome allowed people to try new things, get dental care for their kids, start small businesses and generally live in a way that was governed less by fea...

    9 min

  4. 16H AGO

    'Namesake' Tackles a Colonial Legacy. And a Nation's Resistance

    On a rainy March night in what's currently known as Powell River, B.C., members of the Tla'amin Nation and some special invitees gathered at the Patricia Theatre for a community preview of the film təm kʷaθ nan (Namesake). The next night, it previewed to the broader community. Both nights, the theatre was packed to the rafters. The film, narrated in part by ʔayʔajuθəm Immersion Program teacher Koosen Pielle, opens with shots of land and water in Tla'amin territory. "This is t'išoshəm," Pielle says. "t'išoshəm means milky waters from the herring spawn. qʷɛqʷɛyqʷɛy. Little sandy beach, or Gibsons Beach. kʷʊθaysqɛn. A rock at the mouth, or Myrtle Rock." "Language is so intertwined with the landscape here. The sounds came from the landscapes," Pielle says. "It all comes from the land." This opening sets the tone. While Namesake will investigate the legacy of Israel Wood Powell, it will do so through the lens of the culture, history and worldview of the Tla'amin people. Powell was B.C.'s first superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was an early architect of residential schools and instrumental to enacting the province's potlatch ban; Powell River, B.C., was named after him. In 2021, Tla'amin Hegus John Hackett requested that the City of Powell River consider changing its name because of Powell's harmful legacy. With strength and generosity, Namesake tracks the conversations and clashes that emerged following Hegus Hackett's request, inviting non-Indigenous viewers to rethink the history of the ground beneath their feet. "We're all one land, but we were worlds apart," co-director, doctor, actor and Tla'amin Nation member Evan Adams says, a little later, standing on a pier near the ferry downtown. "A lot of people who live here now don't know us. And they forget that all of this used to be ours, and that this city is still in our territory." Local artist and settler Meghan Hildebrand, who appears in Namesake, said seeing its opening for the first time gave her "chills." Later in the documentary, another point is made about place names. "Naming was a powerful way colonizers used to transfer their power. To legitimize, or justify, their power," says Sean Carleton, a historian and Indigenous studies scholar at the University of Manitoba. Changing Indigenous place names to colonial names, Carleton says, allowed colonizers "to see themselves in a landscape that was not theirs." An invitation, or a demand? When Hegus Hackett made the name change request in 2021, it could've been reasonable to believe residents of Powell River would meet it with openness. The nation and the city signed one of the province's first Community Accords in 2003, promising to co-operate, communicate, protect cultural heritage and "meet regularly to promote and encourage open and constructive dialogue." Moreover, Powell River Regional District changed its name to qathet Regional District in 2018. qathet, which means "people working together," was a name gifted to the regional district from Tla'amin Nation Elders. For settlers in Powell River — of which I am one — there are, broadly speaking, two potential ways to view Hegus Hackett's request. The first is as an invitation: to right a past wrong; address the colonial erasure of ʔayʔajuθəm place names; acknowledge a shared, and sometimes painful history; and move forward together as a more united set of communities with shared goals. The second sees Hegus Hackett's request as more of a demand. One that, as social media posts in the documentary reference, creates "division." "In my opinion, it has never been about truth and reconciliation," reads one resident's social media post about the prospect of changing Powell River's name. "Agree, it's about power and control and payback," reads another. Soon after it was made, Hegus Hackett's request hit a speed bump as a small but vocal group of residents formed an opposition. Calling themselves the Concerned Citizens of Powell River, the semi-anonymous group has described t...

    12 min

  5. 1D AGO

    A Deadly Fungal Invader Is Threatening BC's Bats

    But a probiotic developed in the province might be able to save them if the government moves quickly. … Article written by Michelle Gamage. A fungal outbreak in Idaho could be about to have a "catastrophic" impact on British Columbia's bat populations. The fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Pd for short, causes a disease known as white-nose syndrome in bats. The syndrome can wipe out an entire infected bat colony. Since Pd arrived in North America more than two decades ago, it has killed millions of bats and caused the collapse of some populations. It is now found in 46 U.S. states and all 10 Canadian provinces, Jianping Xu, a professor in the department of biology at McMaster University, told The Tyee. Like mycelia or moulds, Pd is a filamentous fungus that grows in cool, dark and stable environments like caves. These kinds of environments are also where bats like to hibernate, Xu said. As bats hibernate, Pd can eat at the skin of their wings and grow in their ears and snout, causing the bloom of fungal growth that gives the disease its name. This causes the bats to come out of hibernation to groom themselves, which makes them burn through their fat stores and can cause them to die of starvation or dehydration in the winter or early spring, Xu said. Xu said humans likely accidentally imported Pd from Europe. Once here, it spread across North America, mostly through bat-to-bat contact. In Europe and Asia, bats can carry Pd but have natural defences that prevent them from developing disease. White-nose syndrome has killed off more than 90 per cent of three Canadian bat species. The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), northern long-eared bat (also known as the northern myotis, or Myotis septentrionalis) and tricoloured bat (Perimyotis subflavus) are listed as endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act. The little brown bat and northern long-eared bat live in B.C. and Alberta. Of the 15 bat species that live in B.C., seven can develop white-nose syndrome and six others can carry it but don't seem to develop the disease, said Mandy Kellner, a wildlife biologist and bat conservation co-ordinator with the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship. She said the province monitors bat populations through annual bat counts co-ordinated by the Community Bat Programs of B.C. and audio monitoring through the North American Bat Monitoring Program. Last year the bat count collected data from 339 roosts and found "healthy populations, with no consistent declines," said Brynne Graham, Metro Vancouver-Sea to Sky regional co-ordinator of the Community Bat Programs of B.C. This could be in part because B.C. bats don't seem to hibernate in big colonies where the disease can easily spread, and some don't hibernate all winter, which could mean the fungus has less of a negative effect on them, Kellner said. The Rocky Mountains prevented Pd from reaching the West Coast for about a decade. It was detected near Seattle in 2016. The province monitors for Pd by collecting swabs of bat wings from researchers and wildlife rehabilitation centres, asking people to report dead bats to the Community Bat Programs of B.C. and collecting guano samples from bat boxes in the spring, Kellner said. The testing found Pd near Grand Forks in 2022 and in Delta early last year. In a recently published study, Xu found Pd has likely been circulating in Western Canada for longer than first predicted. So far there have not been any bats with a confirmed case of white-nose syndrome in B.C., Kellner said. The window to protect bats is closing Cori Lausen, the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada's director of bat conservation — who literally wrote the book on B.C.'s bats — said the province has a short window to act before bat populations could start to collapse. She said B.C. can fight the fungus with bacteria. Lausen, Xu and Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham, a professor in the department of biological sciences at Thompson Rivers University, have created a probiotic ...

    9 min

  6. 1D AGO

    When Police Kill, Civilian Voices are Sidelined in News Reporting

    Police and government officials are more frequently quoted than victims' family and community. … Article written by Farhan Samir. On Nov. 11, 2024, Ontario's policing oversight body, the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, reported that a Hamilton police officer and another man were injured after an "exchange of gunfire." But this later turned out to be false. There were two police officers, both of whom fired a barrage of reportedly 24 bullets that struck Erixon Kabera several times, killing him, and injuring one of the other officers. I've kept up with the subsequent reporting on this incident, and I constantly find myself in awe of the extent to which the Hamilton Police Service and the SIU projected a degree of normality in the face of this calamity. This was the response of an SIU spokesperson, commenting on the agency's retraction of an earlier statement about an "exchange of gunfire," as quoted in a CTV News story: "Based on the information that the SIU initially had, a news release was issued with preliminary details," [SIU spokesperson Monica Hudon] said. "As the investigation proceeded and as further information came to light, we made it a priority to transparently release that updated information as quickly as possible via email, social media and our website." Kabera's family and community of course felt indignant. In this quote from a CBC story, Kabera's family said in a statement: "We find that reversal of crucial facts, a full day after telling the entire world otherwise and painting an image of violence for our very own, to be deeply outrageous and unnerving." In a quote from a CP24 story, a Hamilton MP and a Hamilton member of the provincial parliament asked: "Why did the Chief of Police allow false information to be released about Erixon carrying a weapon? Why was the Chief of Police so quick to highlight the gun-related injuries to his officers, when according to the SIU report, Erixon did not shoot at police?" More than just indignation, there was also of course a lot of grief about Kabera, a community organizer. This is how Kabera's brother, Parfait Karekezi, responded, as described by CBC: He said Kabera, who immigrated to Canada from Rwanda, worked for the government previously and was an upstanding person who helped him file his taxes for the first time and showed him "how to be a good citizen in Canada." There was also a lot of confusion about how the incident really unfolded: "As we grieve this senseless loss, we respectfully ask for transparency and accountability from the authorities. Whether it's police bodycam footage, surveillance videos from the building or any other pieces of evidence, we want to know details of the altercation so that we can understand the truth of what happened in Erixon's final moments," Kabera's family told the media (quoted in the Toronto Sun). There seems to have been few answers for these questions from the SIU. In another statement, Hamilton police noted the SIU report concluded the force used by officers was "reasonable under the circumstances." One of the officers told SIU investigators he believed the man had been the first to open fire, but it appears he mistook the other officer's initial gunfire for shots coming from the man, [SIU director Joseph] Martino wrote, describing it as "an honest but mistaken belief in the highly charged atmosphere that prevailed." In a St. Catharines Standard article, Hamilton Police Association president Jaimi Bannon is quoted as saying: "If the officers discharged their firearms, they must have felt imminent threat of life or serious bodily harm to themselves or others." The response from the community — stricken with grief, outrage, bewilderment — stands in stark contrast with the response from the policing bureaucracy, which used language that was largely muted, legalistic and neutral. Police and civilians use different language This contrast is not isolated to this case — it's common across Canada. As a researcher trained in bot...

    9 min

  7. 1D AGO

    BC Government May Use AI to Redact Personal Information

    As governments move to incorporate AI into freedom of information, critics raise concerns over transparency and privacy. … Article written by Amanda Follett Hosgood and Isaac Phan Nay. B.C.'s provincial government has begun using artificial intelligence in an effort to streamline its response to freedom of information requests, The Tyee has learned. The province's Ministry of Citizens' Services confirmed that it has been using AI tools for specific tasks in an attempt to respond more efficiently to requests made under the province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, also known as FOIPPA. The legislation provides a framework for the public to request internal documents from the province's public bodies. The government's use of AI in responding to freedom of information, or FOI, requests is part of ongoing work to "modernize" the system and improve response times by creating "efficiencies and streamlining the process," the ministry said in an email. Currently, the tools are being tested for tasks like reviewing handwritten documents and removing specific types of personal information, such as names, addresses and phone numbers. However, the company contracted to develop the system has publicly stated that plans to expand AI use in FOI processing are in the works. "Freedom of information requests today are more complex and resource-intensive than ever, and we need to ensure the system keeps pace," Minister of Citizens' Services Diana Gibson said in a statement sent to The Tyee. "This work is about making the FOI process more transparent, more responsive and easier to navigate for everyone, while maintaining strong protections for privacy and public trust." The ministry said that staff use only government-approved enterprise AI tools that are subject to strict privacy and security requirements. But some experts expressed concern that governments appear to be forging ahead with plans to incorporate AI into the FOI process with little public consultation or transparency. "I find it really concerning that the B.C. government is pursuing this," said Evan Light, an associate professor in the University of Toronto's faculty of information. While the experts acknowledged that using AI could improve the FOI system when it comes to response times and consistency in how documents are redacted, some fear it could be used to strip services from the public sector rather than improve them. They also pointed out that it can be difficult to remove any personal information fed to AI. "Once information is ingested by an AI, it's not just held by an individual or a government; our control of it is not there anymore," Light said. "Personal information should be just between you and the government, rather than you and the government and Microsoft." The Ministry of Citizens' Services confirmed that AI tools are used to process personal information but said they are used "strictly in accordance with all privacy and security requirements." "These tools operate in a secure, closed government environment, isolated from the public internet and fully protected by privacy and security protocols," a spokesperson wrote, adding that personal information is not used to train AI models. The ministry said freedom of information requests are becoming larger, more complex and significantly more resource-intensive. As a result, public bodies face increasing administrative pressures to maintain timely and equitable access, according to a statement provided to The Tyee. The ministry said efforts to modernize its FOI systems will help analysts respond sooner as staff manage larger and more complex responses to requests. That work includes launching a new app analysts use to process FOIs. It is expected to be completed later this month. The B.C. government hired Victoria-based technology company AOT Technologies to help create a new, modernized system to process freedom of information requests. The ministry said the system aims to delete duplicate r...

    18 min

  8. 1D AGO

    Want to Save Journalism? Change Who Owns It

    Here are proven ways to restore trust in news providers. Billionaires need not apply. ... Article written by Richard Johnson and Peter MacLeod. News media in the democratic world today is a bewildering paradox. Never have we had so much access to information and sources of news, yet our trust in news media, journalism, and the authenticity of the profession itself have never been lower. In Canada, the "trust score" given news media by English speakers dropped from 55 in 2016 to 37 in 2024, according to a study by Reuters. That tells us something about how people view journalists, but it also might say a lot about how citizens feel about each other, and whether we feel connected to decision-making about where our society is headed. Apparently trust levels aren't tied to political convictions. A recent study of trust in news media in Germany suggested that "generalized social trust among [readers and audiences] was positively associated with their trust in news media, while no relation emerged between their political attitudes and level of media trust." The authors reviewed decades' worth of earlier studies and tested their hypotheses over time. They found that, regardless of political affiliation or left-right lean, the best predictor of trust in news media was trust in each other. Social trust includes faith in the institutions of democracy itself — fair elections, accountable representatives, an independent judiciary, and more. Another study similarly found that the more social we are and the stronger our social ties — in other words, the more we engage in social dialogue with friends and members of our communities — the more likely we are to trust news media. The German study also found that public trust in journalism, as a profession, predicted broader news media trust: audiences tend to trust journalists if those audiences believe their values are represented in the work of journalism. However, the public also tends to view journalists as part of an elite social class, given their proximity to power and their control over the interpretation of current events. The increasing detachment between journalists and the public may be further exacerbated by other modern trends in the profession. More than ever, a career in journalism is accessible mainly to people with university or even post-graduate degrees who come from a higher socio-economic background and who represent a narrower slice of the political spectrum. And as we've seen in the contemporary blend of journalism, blogging, commentary and more, many journalists have come to view their role through a lens of social justice in addition to reporting and truth-telling. All of which means the work of journalism in the modern age is the true impossible task — to represent the values of audiences fairly; hold political power to account (while recognizing that journalism itself is a form of political power); provide accurate information to the public amongst the incessant noise of media personalities, social media influencers, and widespread misinformation; contribute to social trust (to ensure the public trusts you); and have a successful business model. How Norway is saving journalism The troubling decline of trustworthy, local and independent news media over the past few decades — especially in America but also in Canada and all over the democratic world — is unassailable proof that the free market alone cannot conjure a solution to the problem of ill-informed publics. In the face of market failure, governments and citizens must come together to construct alternatives for the sake of public good. In countries like Norway, that's been happening for some time. Since 1969, the Norwegian government has provided subsidies to local and community newspapers to help ensure their survival in the new age of advertising and corporate media control over a few large national newspapers and media groups. Today there are more than 220 local newspapers serving communities in a country of...

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