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Businesses at Gasoline Alley West Centre I prepared for the centre’s grand opening on July 29. (Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff)
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Canada’s Deanne Rose, right, and Britain’s Demi Stokes battle for the ball during a women’s soccer match at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, in Kashima, Japan, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Rose has signed with England’s Reading FC. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Fernando Vergara

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Canada’s Caileigh Filmer (left) and Hillary Janssens show off their bronze medals, won in the women’s pair rowing final event during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Thursday, July 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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Tennessee Titans’ Julio Jones accused of harvesting, selling millions of dollars in cannabis

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Staff work in a marijuana grow room that can be viewed by at the new visitors centre at Canopy Growth facility in Smiths Falls, Ont. on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

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A scene from ‘Wildhood’ is shown in this undated handout photo. An Indigenous Two-Spirit odyssey and an adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s award-winning novel “Scarborough” are among the Canadian additions to September’s Toronto International Film Festival. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Riley Smith Photo

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      The Sons of Fenrir, of Calgary, put on a fight show during the Stephan G. Stephansson Icelandic Society’s Icelandic National Day Celebration in Markerville Saturday. (Photo by Sean McIntosh/Advocate staff)

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      Former Olds resident Danielle Lappage took silver in the women’s 65-kg classification with a close 6-5 loss to Finland’s Petra Olli in the final at the world wrestling championships. (Photo by Wrestling Canada/Martin Gabor)

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      Richard Beaune (second from left) directs the cast of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” during a rehearsal on the Bower Ponds outdoor stage. The play runs in repertoire with “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Jake Tkaczk, from 7 p.m. on Aug. 12 to 1 p.m. on Aug. 29. Other local theatre groups will also perform short “curtain raisers,” contributing to a festival atmosphere. Visit primestocktheatre.com for more information. (Contributed photo)

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      Michal Kristof of Slovakia, left, and Nikita Zadorov of Russia fight for a puck during the Ice Hockey World Championship group A match between the Slovakia and Russia at the Olympic Sports Center in Riga, Latvia, Monday, May 24, 2021.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Roman Koksarov

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      Joel Cohen, left, from Calgary, and Tim Long, born in Brandon, Man. but raised in Exeter, Ont., pose in Toronto Thursday Feb. 14, 2002. Before he moved to the United States to pursue an acclaimed comedy writing career on late-night talk shows and "The Simpsons," Tim Long was a self-described nerd in an Ontario town that calls itself the "home of the white squirrel." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Harris

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      Joel Cohen, left, from Calgary, and Tim Long, born in Brandon, Man. but raised in Exeter, Ont., pose in Toronto Thursday Feb. 14, 2002. Before he moved to the United States to pursue an acclaimed comedy writing career on late-night talk shows and “The Simpsons,” Tim Long was a self-described nerd in an Ontario town that calls itself the “home of the white squirrel.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Harris

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      A Suncor logo is shown at the company’s annual meeting in Calgary, Thursday, May 2, 2019.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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      Molson Canadian, left, and Coors Light beer products are displayed together in Walpole, Mass., on Nov. 28, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Steven Senne

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      A visitor walks in the garden during a guided tour of Roberto Burle Marx’s former home, which was elected today as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. The site features more than 3,500 species of plants native to Rio and is considered a laboratory for botanical and landscape experimentation. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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      Ayisat Idris-Hosch stands at the Farmer Street Cemetery, a historic slave cemetery, in Newnan, Ga., on Monday, July 26, 2021, before a protest against a new skate park that is being built adjacent to the cemetery. Idris-Hosch said the city did not seek sufficient community input before beginning the project. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

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