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The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in
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. The paper is the flagship publication of
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and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.National Post to eliminate Monday print edition
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, June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017
The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of
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,
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,
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and
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. Weekend editions of the newspaper are also distributed in
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and
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. The newspaper was founded in 1998 by
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in an attempt to compete with ''
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''. In 2001,
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completed its acquisition of the ''National Post''. In 2006, the newspaper ceased distribution in
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and the
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. Postmedia assumed ownership of the newspaper in 2010, after the CEO of the ''National Post''s, Paul Godfrey, assembled an ownership group to acquire CanWest's chain of newspapers.


History

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...
built the ''National Post'' around the ''
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'', a financial newspaper in Toronto which Hollinger Inc. purchased from
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in 1997. ''Financial Post'' was retained as the name of the new newspaper's business section. Outside Toronto, the ''Post'' was built on the printing and distribution infrastructure of Hollinger's national newspaper chain, formerly called
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, that included the newspapers ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. The ''Post'' became Black's national flagship title, and
Ken Whyte Kenneth Whyte (born August 12, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, publisher and author based in Toronto. He was formerly the Senior Vice-President of Public Policy for Rogers Communications and if the former chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation. ...
was appointed editor. Beyond his political vision, Black attempted to compete directly with
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's media empire led in Canada by ''
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'', which Black and many others perceived as the platform of the Liberal
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. When the ''Post'' launched, its editorial stance was
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. It advocated a "unite-the-right" movement to create a viable alternative to the
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government of
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, and supported the
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. The ''Posts op-ed page has included dissenting columns by ideological liberals such as Linda McQuaig, as well as conservatives including
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and
Diane Francis Diane Marie Francis (born 1946) is an US-born British people, British-Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the ''National Post'' newspaper since 1998. She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D. ...
, and
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. Original members of the ''Post'' editorial board included
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, Neil Seeman,
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, Conservative Member of Parliament John Williamson and the author/historian Alexander Rose. The ''Posts magazine-style graphic and layout design has won awards. The original design of the ''Post'' was created by Lucie Lacava, a design consultant based in Montreal. The ''Post'' now bears the motto "World's Best-Designed Newspaper" on its front page.


21st century

The ''Post'' was unable to maintain momentum in the market without continuing to operate with annual budgetary deficits. At the same time, Conrad Black was becoming preoccupied by his debt-heavy media empire,
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. Black divested his Canadian media holdings, and sold the ''Post'' to
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, controlled by Israel "Izzy" Asper, in two stages â€“ 50 percent in 2000, along with the entire
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newspaper chain,"The newspaper war was fun while it lasted". ''
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'', August 25, 2001.
and the remaining 50 percent in 2001. CanWest Global also owned the
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. Izzy Asper died in October 2003, and his sons
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and
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assumed control of CanWest, the latter serving as chairman of the ''Post''. Editor-in-chief Matthew Fraser departed in 2005 after the arrival of a new publisher, Les Pyette â€“ the paper's seventh publisher in seven years. Fraser's deputy editor, Doug Kelly succeeded him as editor. Pyette departed seven months after his arrival, replaced by Gordon Fisher. The ''Post'' limited print distribution in
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in 2006, part of a trend to which ''
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'' and the ''
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'', Canada's other two papers with inter-regional distribution, have all resorted. Print editions were removed from all Atlantic Canadian newsstands except in Halifax as of 2007. Focussing further on its online publishing, in 2008, the paper suspended weekday editions and home delivery in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The reorientation towards digital continued into its next decade. Politically, the ''Post'' has retained a conservative editorial stance although the Asper family has long been a strong supporter of the
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. Izzy Asper was once leader of the Liberal Party in his home province of
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. The Aspers had controversially fired the publisher of the ''
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'', Russell Mills, for calling for the resignation of Liberal prime minister
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. However, the ''Post'' endorsed the
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in the 2004 election when Fraser was editor. The Conservatives narrowly lost that election to the Liberals. After the election, the ''Post'' surprised many of its conservative readers by shifting its support to the victorious Liberal government of prime minister
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, and was highly critical of the Conservatives and their leader,
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. The paper switched camps again in the runup to the 2006 election (in which the Conservatives won a minority government). Like its competitor ''
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'', the ''Post'' publishes a separate edition in
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, Ontario, Canada's largest city and the fourth largest English-language media centre in North America after
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,
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and
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. The Toronto edition includes additional local content not published in the edition distributed to the rest of Canada, and is printed at the ''
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'' in
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. On September 27, 2007, the ''Post'' unveiled a major redesign of its appearance. Guided by Gayle Grin, the ''Post's'' managing editor of design and graphics, the redesign features a standardization in the size of typeface and the number of typefaces used, cleaner font for charts and graphs, and the move of the nameplate banner from the top to the left side of Page 1 as well as each section's front page. In 2009, the paper announced that as a temporary cost-cutting measure, it would not print a Monday edition from July to September 2009. On October 29, 2009, Canwest Global announced that due to a lack of funding, the ''National Post'' might close down as of October 30, 2009, subject to moving the paper to a new holding company. Late on October 29, 2009, Ontario Superior Court Justice
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ruled in Canwest's favour and allowed the paper to move into a holding company. Investment bankers hired by Canwest received no offers when they tried to sell the ''National Post'' earlier that year. Without a buyer closing the paper was studied, but the costs were greater than gains from liquidating assets. The lawyer for Canwest, in arguing to Justice Pepall, said the ''National Post'' added value to other papers in the Canwest chain. In 2010, an ownership group was assembled by ''National Post'' CEO Paul Godfrey in 2010 to bid for the chain of newspapers being sold by the financially troubled Canwest (the company's broadcasting assets were sold separately to
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). Godfrey secured financial backing from U.S. private-equity firm Golden Tree Asset Management as well as other investors. The group completed a $1.1 billion transaction to acquire the chain from Canwest on July 13, 2010, forming the
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. The company's shares were listed on the
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in 2011. On October 28, 2011, the ''Post'' announced its first ever yearly profit. Postmedia is 66 per cent American owned by
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based
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Chatham Asset Management,


Facilities

The ''National Post''s main office is at 365 Bloor Street East in
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. It was formerly located at 1450 Don Mills Road in the
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neighbourhood of Toronto, which was vacated in 2012. The newspaper's is published at Postmedia's Islington Printing Plant in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood, along with the ''
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'', ''
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'' and various Postmedia and Metroland-owned weekly newspapers. The newspaper was previously printed at the
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in
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, until the ''Toronto Star'' closed the site.


Controversies


2006 Iran hoax

On May 19, 2006, the newspaper ran two pieces alleging that the Iranian parliament had passed a law requiring religious minorities to wear special identifying badges. One piece was a front-page news item titled "Iran Eyes Badges For Jews" accompanied by a 1935 picture of two Jews bearing
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-ordered
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s. Later on the same day, experts began coming forward to deny the accuracy of the ''Post'' story. The story proved to be false, but not before it had been picked up by a variety of other news media and generated comment from world leaders. Comments on the story by the Canadian Prime Minister
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caused Iran to summon Canada's ambassador to Tehran,
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, for an explanation. On May 24, 2006, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Doug Kelly, published an apology for the story on page 2, admitting that it was false and the ''National Post'' had not exercised enough caution or checked enough sources.


Accusation of anti-Islam sentiment

From 1998 to 2014, the now defunct
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(CIC) had been actively monitoring media coverage for anti-Muslim or anti-Islam sentiment and had issued reports highlighting its findings. It had opposed the use of phrases such as "Islamic guerrillas," "Islamic insurgency" and "Muslim militants" saying that terms like "militant" or "terrorist" should be used without a religious association "since no religion teaches or endorses terrorism, militancy or extremism." The Congress had singled out the ''National Post'', saying the paper "consistently is No. 1" as an anti-Islam media outlet. A number of writers for the ''National'' Post have subsequently criticized the CIC over these accusations. Alexander Rose wrote that "judging by
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support for the 001
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, during which hook-nosed Jews were equated with apartheid and genocide, the CIC doesn't seem to have problems with some kinds of truly inflammatory racist language" and that the CIC's "fetish for censorship in the interest of 'social harmony', as the CIC puts it, reeks of the very authoritarianism oppressing Muslims in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia." In addition, Rose stated that "By editing out bad language, it seems, the CIC believes that correct thoughts will result, even at the necessary expense of reporting the truth." Robert Fulford wrote that the CIC "justifies its existence mainly by complaining about acts of prejudice that haven't happened" and that "it's ridiculous to suggest that we avoid the subject of religion when crimes are committed in the name of that religion by men and women considered part of it", while
Jonathan Kay Jonathan Hillel Kay (born 1968) is a Canadian journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of ''The Walrus'' (2014–2017), and is a senior editor of ''Quillette''. He was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the Toronto-based Ca ...
wrote that "the folks at the Canadian Islamic Congress purport to be the arbiters of what can and can't be said in this country" and that CIC President Elmasry is "the country's self-appointed judge of all that is hateful."


Allegations of bias

A 2017 survey of Canadians found that the ''National Post'' was perceived to be middle-of-the-pack for bias among national news outlets (perceived biased by 48 per cent of Canadians overall). The survey also found that "the tendency was to see ..a Conservative bias at the ''National Post''." A 2010 survey similarly found the ''Post'' was more likely to be perceived as right of centre by the public than other Canadian news organizations.


Notable staff


Editors-in-chief

*
Kenneth Whyte Kenneth Whyte (born August 12, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, publisher and author based in Toronto. He was formerly the Senior Vice-President of Public Policy for Rogers Communications and if the former chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation. ...
, 1998–2003 * Matthew Fraser, 2003–2005 * Doug Kelly, 2005–2010 *
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, 2010–2014 * Anne Marie Owens, 2014–2019 * Rob Roberts, 2019–


Staff

*
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, editor-in-chief * Nicole MacAdam, executive producer, ''Financial Post'' * Jonathan Kay, managing editor, comment (1998–2014) * Dustin Parkes, executive producer, features * Gayle Grin, managing editor, design and graphics * Tim Rostron, arts editor (1998–2003) *
Terence Corcoran Terence "Terry" Dollard Corcoran (born November 6, 1942) is columnist and comment editor for the Financial Post section of the Toronto-based ''National Post''. Biography and works Born in Montreal, Quebec, Corcoran received a Bachelor of Journal ...
, ''FP'' comment editor *
Andrew Coyne James Andrew Coyne (born December 23, 1960) is a Canadian columnist with ''The Globe and Mail'' and a member of the ''At Issue'' panel on CBC's '' The National''. Previously, he has been national editor for ''Maclean's'' and a columnist with ''Na ...
, executive producer, comment & editorial (2014–2015) *
Diane Francis Diane Marie Francis (born 1946) is an US-born British people, British-Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the ''National Post'' newspaper since 1998. She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D. ...
, ''FP'' editor-at-large * Jo-Anne MacDonald, national editor * Jeff Wasserman, photography and multimedia editor


Columnists

The following is a list of past and present columnists for the ''National Post''.


Current

*
Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...
(Founder) *
Terence Corcoran Terence "Terry" Dollard Corcoran (born November 6, 1942) is columnist and comment editor for the Financial Post section of the Toronto-based ''National Post''. Biography and works Born in Montreal, Quebec, Corcoran received a Bachelor of Journal ...
– with ''
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'' * Raymond J. de Souza *
Diane Francis Diane Marie Francis (born 1946) is an US-born British people, British-Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the ''National Post'' newspaper since 1998. She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D. ...
– with ''
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'' *
Lorne Gunter A former managing editor of the '' Alberta Report'', and reporter with the '' Edmonton Journal'' Lorne Gunter employed as a Canadian columnist and editorial board member with the ''National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English- ...
* Larysa Harapyn – with ''
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Dave Bidini Dave Bidini (born September 11, 1963) is a Canadian musician and writer. Originally from Etobicoke, Ontario, he was a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics, and currently performs with Bidiniband. In addition, he has published several b ...
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Christie Blatchford Christie Marie Blatchford (May 20, 1951 – February 12, 2020) was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books. Blatchford was Canada's first female sports columnist, reporting on sports betwe ...
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Andrew Coyne James Andrew Coyne (born December 23, 1960) is a Canadian columnist with ''The Globe and Mail'' and a member of the ''At Issue'' panel on CBC's '' The National''. Previously, he has been national editor for ''Maclean's'' and a columnist with ''Na ...
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David Frum David Jeffrey Frum (; born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at ''The Atlantic'' as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum au ...
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Jonathan Kay Jonathan Hillel Kay (born 1968) is a Canadian journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of ''The Walrus'' (2014–2017), and is a senior editor of ''Quillette''. He was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the Toronto-based Ca ...
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Faisal Kutty Faisal Kutty is a lawyer, academic, writer, public speaker and human rights activist. He is Visiting Associate Professor of LAWS at Southwestern Law School. He served as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and was an Associate Prof ...
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John O'Sullivan John O'Sullivan may refer to: Sports *John O'Sullivan (cricketer) (1918–1991), New Zealand cricketer *John O'Sullivan (cyclist) (born 1933), Australian cyclist *John O'Sullivan (footballer) (born 1993), Irish footballer for Accrington Stanley *J ...
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Rosemary Sexton Rosemary Sexton is a Canadian author and former columnist for ''The Globe and Mail''. She is the author of the books ''The Glitter Girls,'' ''Confessions of a Society Columnist'' and ''Home Before Dark.'' During her career at The Globe and Mail, ...
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Media in Canada The media of Canada is diverse and highly regionalized. News media, both print and digital and in both official languages, is largely dominated by a handful of major media corporations. The largest of these corporations is the country’s nati ...
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List of media outlets in Toronto This is a list of television and radio stations along with a list of media outlets in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto is Canada's largest media market, and the fourth-largest market in North America ...
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List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont – ...
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List of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulation This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – '' Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – '' Bassano Times'' * Beaumont †...


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