Jason Markusoff
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I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such
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When you look at the totality of all the Alberta institutions and programs Danielle Smith has begun to reinvent or reshape… it’s a lot. And a lot of risk. By me:
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ANALYSIS | Danielle Smith reworking Alberta's everything, everywhere all at once | CBC News
The premier makes no apologies for an ambitious reform agenda. But the more a government dismantles and rebuilds, the more risk there is for road bumps, growing pains and outright mistakes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-ambition-analysis-1.7416708
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Also now in the National Sound Archive of Australia: this succulent Italian stereotype tune.
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James McLeod
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Jack Karlson died two years ago. Great artists so rarely get the recognition they deserve in their own lifetime.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
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next air canada ceo
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ℳatt
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The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦
about 18 hours ago
Paywalls are reasonable.
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Watching the shadows of snowfall on a late-night walk, Calgary.
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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter
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After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/wnba-players-had-an-ace-up-their-sleeve-in-pay-negotiations-a-nobel-laureate-c5040a28?st=ZVX9Ap&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Kevin Elliott, Made Whole
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WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES
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Eva Holland
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Look I appreciate that this family has a long history in Canadian progressive politics but to me they'll always be the Lewises of "Jenny Lewis, casting director for Heated Rivalry" fame.
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Aaron Wherry
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Watching Avi Lewis's speech from the candidate showcase this weekend and noting his roll call at the end. "For Tommy and David and Ed, for Audrey and Alexa, for Jack and Jagmeet..." 🤔
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Benjamin Lopez Steven
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And another one from Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck, who's calling Lewis' positions on natural resource development "ideological and unrealistic." She also says when Lewis reverses his positions, she will meet with him. A chilly reception to Lewis from the provinces so far.
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Jonny Wakefield
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Holy moly, Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi is doing everything just short of disavowing the federal NDP after Avi Lewis’s election as leader.
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Avi Lewis would be the first Jewish federal party leader since… help me out here? Who’s the most recent Jewish party leader at the provincial level?
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The New Yorker
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Before there was “Heated Rivalry,” there was this New Yorker cartoon by Harry Bliss, published in 2001.
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Three commissioners proposed to axe a pair of rural ridings and add seats in Calgary and Edmonton, because pop’s growth. Commission minority report pitched big stretched urban-rural hybrids, like 1/4 of Lethbridge + Crowsnest Pass, and a corner of NW Calgary + Cochrane + a huge farm expanse beyond.
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Boundary commission chair questions motives of UCP-picked panelists in final riding report | CBC News
Alberta’s electoral boundaries commission issued a final report Thursday that proposed removing two rural seats from Alberta’s political map, but it was accompanied by a starkly different “minority re...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937
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Emanuel Maiberg
5 days ago
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
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Charles Rusnell
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Five commissioners. Three appointed by UCP, all donated to either the Conservatives, Wildrose or UCP. Of the two appointed by the NDP, one, former Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, donated to the Liberal party and his own party. The othe, Susan Samson, never donated to any party.
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The UCP-appointed fmr judge who led Alberta Boundaries Commission warned MLAs against “minority” proposal for splicing several city ridings with rural areas. Unconstitutional, US-style maneuvring, he wrote:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937
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Boundary commission chair questions motives of UCP-picked panelists in final riding report | CBC News
Alberta’s electoral boundaries commission issued a final report Thursday that proposed removing two rural seats from Alberta’s political map, but it was accompanied by a starkly different “minority re...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
4 days ago
NEW: Meta and YouTube lost a landmark social media addiction trial. The loss could be a bellwether for high-profile lawsuits against AI companies, which are founded on a similar core argument: intentional design choices created unsafe platforms, resulting in user harm.
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Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry
Meta and YouTube lost a landmark social media addiction lawsuit. Are AI companies fighting similar claims next?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-court-defeat-ai-industry
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Marsha McLeod
5 days ago
"For some Indigenous leaders, the era left a persistent legacy of paranoia. It manifests in suspicion. Wariness of new people. A check under the bed when travelling." A must read and an textbook in freedom-of-information tenacity by Brett Forester, Ka’nhehsĂ:io Deer, Marnie Luke and Dave Seglins.
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-spies-1970s-indigenous-rights-9.7134112
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Me, at spring’s official start: Ugh it’s so brown and desolate out. Please make the brown go away. After the late March snow dump: NOT WHAT I FUGGING MEANT, NATURE
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Aaron Wherry
5 days ago
If you had asked me a year and a half ago when we would have hit this target, I would've been inclined to say "never."
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Canada clears NATO's 2% bar after years of lagging | CBC News
Canada has finally met NATO’s two per cent defence spending target, buoyed by a $9.3 billion surge and internal accounting changes. The long-elusive milestone fulfills Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pro...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-nato-defence-spending-9.7142615
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
5 days ago
The Iran war effect. About 2x the drop from the carbon tax removal in April.
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lauren
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war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf
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Aaron Wherry
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Why would we do this to ourselves?
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Wealthsimple clears regulatory hurdle to bringing prediction trading to Canada
Approval for online financial services platform permits it only to offer contracts tied to economic indicators, financial markets and climate trends
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-wealthsimple-clears-regulatory-hurdle-to-bring-prediction-trading-to/
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦
6 days ago
đź‘€ An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway and search warrants were executed on a number of properties including the homes of former mayor Jyoti Gondek, former councillor Sean Chu and sitting councillor Andre Chabot.
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RCMP probe corruption allegations at Calgary city hall; warrants executed on former mayor, councillors | CBC News
An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway and search warrants were executed on a number of properties, including the homes of former mayor Jyoti Gondek, former councillor Sean Chu and sitting c...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/rcmp-probe-corruption-allegations-at-calgary-city-hall-warrants-executed-on-former-mayor-councillors-9.7140099
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UPDATE: Not just Chabot, RCMP corruption probe search warrants on Sean Chu, too.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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RCMP probe corruption allegations at Calgary city hall; warrants executed on current, former councillors | CBC News
An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway and at least one current and one former Calgary city councillor, as well as a business were subject to search warrants executed last week, CBC News has...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/rcmp-probe-corruption-allegations-at-calgary-city-hall-warrants-executed-on-current-former-councillors-9.7140099
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BREAKING: RCMP investigating corruption allegations involving veteran Calgary councillor, business. Police seized Andre Chabot's cell phone after warrant, CBC's Meghan Grant reports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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RCMP investigating allegations of corruption involving councillor, developer at Calgary city hall: sources | CBC News
An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway into at least one current Calgary city councillor as well as a local developer, CBC News has learned.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/rcmp-investigating-allegations-of-corruption-involving-councillor-developer-at-calgary-city-hall-sources-9.7140099
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Les Perreaux
7 days ago
As usual, there's a Policy Options article! Will this lead to concerted action, or is it mere gesture? As colleague Charles Breton sayas, Quebec's plan of attack on the file is quite different than Alberta's. 2/2
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Why Alberta and Quebec diverge on judicial appointments
Alberta and Quebec both want a role in judicial appointments. But their arguments reveal sharply different visions of federalism.
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/03/judicial-appointments-provinces/
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Anna Mehler Paperny
12 days ago
Across Canada, politicians are betting you don't care about restricting access to information. Prove them wrong.
ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflect...
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Reflection: What's at stake in Canadian transparency tussles - Investigative Journalism Bureau
One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation. Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. ...
https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflection-whats-at-stake-in-canadian-transparency-tussles/
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🏳️‍⚧️ FTP of the Elders of Zion
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Joe the Plumber walked so Linda from Arizona could run, and Linda from Arizona ran so that no one could fly 🙏
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Drew Harwell
11 days ago
New from me: Thousands have swooned over this pro-Trump Army dream girl. She’s made with AI. "She's the apotheosis of what MAGA fantasizes about, all packed into one channel"
wapo.st/3NtfbUi
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Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI.
Jessica Foster’s posts place her beside fighter jets, world leaders and Trump iconography. Experts say her rise shows how AI-generated women can capture attention.
https://wapo.st/3NtfbUi
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Trump's narrowing options on the Strait of Hormuz: CBC's Front Burner podcast, guest hosted today by a-me, Markusoff
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Can the U.S. re-open the Strait of Hormuz alone?
Podcast Episode · Front Burner · March 19 · 25m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/can-the-u-s-re-open-the-strait-of-hormuz-alone/id1439621628?i=1000756104637
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ℳatt
12 days ago
MARK CARNEY: Well Haliey, in terms of the politics of yesteryear, the wielding of power by a unipolar hemispheric hegemon, you might say that I, ahh, spit on that thang
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Ej Dickson
19 days ago
Anyone who thinks antisemitism is not an existential threat should read this piece by
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social
immediately, particularly these two grafs, in which she talks to a progressive Mamdani supporter who also listens to Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
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Michelle Goldberg
12 days ago
Feel like these two tweets sum up where we are right now
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AWOOGA AWOOGA
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Carrie Tait
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SCOOP: Two companies involved in building some of Alberta's addiction recovery centres are mired in litigation, including accusations of forgery on one side and allegations of intimidation involving Sam Mraiche, of MHCare
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Alberta construction company alleges Sam Mraiche played hidden role in building of addiction sites
Mraiche, who is central to the province’s health care procurement controversy, denies involvement
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-construction-company-alleges-sam-mraiche-played-hidden-role-in/
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ℳatt
15 days ago
Went on Facebook, I see a post about the Toronto St Patrick's Day Parade. The replies are 90% old racists saying "glad to see a peaceful culture parading for once, I miss peaceful old Canada" etc FACT CHECK: The St Patrick's Day Parade was banned in Toronto until *1988*(!) due to sectarian violence
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Josh Marshall
15 days ago
Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet.
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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story
Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2026-03-16-3777273&utm_medium=email
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NEW: Alberta government’s power policies have battered existing renewable projects, and a major company now speaking out. ATCO blames province for $408M writedown to wind & solar, suggests it may pursue in court:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta power policies trigger $408M devaluation to ATCO's wind and solar division, company says | CBC News
The Calgary-based giant warned of "legal recourse" if province doesn't alter reforms that harm renewable projects.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/atco-blames-alberta-power-policies-as-it-devalues-wind-and-solar-projects-by-408m-9.7128473
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Isaac Callan
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đź§µDoug Ford's former chief of staff traded in his old phone without properly backing it up, losing months of texts from a key period in 2023, including around the Greenbelt fallout. How do we know? An FOI request which wouldn't be allowed under the new rules.
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NEW: Alberta government’s power policies have battered existing renewable projects, and a major company now speaking out. ATCO blames province for $408M writedown to wind & solar, suggests it may pursue in court:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta power policies trigger $408M devaluation to ATCO's wind and solar division, company says | CBC News
The Calgary-based giant warned of "legal recourse" if province doesn't alter reforms that harm renewable projects.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/atco-blames-alberta-power-policies-as-it-devalues-wind-and-solar-projects-by-408m-9.7128473
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Jonny Wakefield
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Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack and councillor Erin Rutherford have both issued statements sharply critical of Edmonton police chief Warren Driechel’s visit to Israel. ER: “profound disappointment,” “public trust upended.”
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the hype
18 days ago
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
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Mickey Djuric
19 days ago
Why hasn’t Pierre Poilievre been to Washington? I spent a month reporting on it👇 I’m told Republicans don’t see him as a “serious” partner. One GOP operative: “They don’t respect him… he’s viewed as someone who’s going to lose, and lose politely.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Canada’s Conservative leader needs to make inroads with Trump. Is it too late?
Why Pierre Poilievre has few friends in and around the White House.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/12/pierre-poilievre-canada-us-relations-trump-00823920
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Les Perreaux
20 days ago
This is what the people who are vehemently opposed to official journalist accreditation (often now overlapping with opposition to government subsidies) warned us about.
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Mount Royal University
20 days ago
Can't make it to tonight's public lecture featuring distinguished speaker Justin Ling, investigative journalist and columnist for The Toronto Star? Justin's lecture, “Telling the Truth in Hyperreality: Journalism in a Time of Lies,” will be livestreamed here:
https://bit.ly/4uii7Up
Don't miss it!
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Matt Ford
20 days ago
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
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