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• The cameras that capture the excitement of Olympic hockey 
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• A Canadian proudly lists Palestine as her birthplace on her passport for the first time
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• How a tiny, tight-knit community is managing one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history 
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Bots get a social media platform of their own and humans get a glimpse of what they'd talk about if left (mostly) unprompted.

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