Back To School

0:00Today on the podcast for the start will take you back to school. We were broadcasting live at Gordon Bell and Greg went over to Mulvey just down the street from Gordon Bell. We got to speak with some students. We got to speak with some teachers, some vice principals, some principals. It was an awesome day going back to school. And on the subject of going back to school, we asked you, is there a class that surprised you how much you liked it? Or maybe there's a class that surprised you on how good you were at it? I'm Brett McGarry alongside Greg Mackling. We are Mackling and McGarry. This is the Wednesday September 9th podcast for the start. Hello there and good morning.

1:12It is Mackling and McGarry and we are on location as we have gone back to school. I'm a little nervous about this Brett. I walked into this building. I hadn't been in here for probably since 1984, the summer of 1984. As I recalled on my way in this morning, actually attended Gordon Bell for four weeks, the glorious summer of 1984, as I attended summer school. Oh no. In order to get my grade 9 completed, I had to come and take, was history or social studies or geography or combination of the three. I'm sure Daniel Mack was really excited to get their hands on me and they realized, oh, this guy had to do summer school just to finish grade 9. So yeah, so back at Gordon Bell, this school has been undergoing a major renovation for a few years now. The place looks fantastic.

2:13Yeah. Yeah. It's a great spot here too. You know, a lot of people in inner city school and the location in the middle of Broadway and Portage. It's probably one of the, probably 25 or 30 busier intersections in the city. But it's a neat space and that soccer field that they created here is one of the more unique spaces in our city. And I think it's such a wonderful way to complement this school. So it's great to be here and we're actually going to MOLVY school later on this morning as well. But as I was doing my research, I realized MOLVY school was originally on this spot where Gordon Bell's high school, or it's junior and high school, right? It's a middle school and a high school. And the original Gordon Bell is where MOLVY school is now. Really? That was the, and Maryland. Really? Yeah. Okay.

3:13Back well over 100 years, it's the 100th anniversary of Gordon Bell this year. Okay. So we're going to be speaking with some staff this morning, some principals going to the principal's office. And we're going to attempt to speak with some, some kids in the eight o'clock hour. It sounds like around 8.35. We might be able to chat with a couple of kids who are making their way back to school for the first time. And a bit later on this morning at 9.35, just so happens today as our monthly visit with our RC polytech. And because they are, and I say this as somebody who went to RC because they are cruel monsters there. They send their students back to school before the long day. I remember when I got my, when I started at creative communications, it was already terrified to go back to school because I'd taken a couple of years off from university because I was at U of M for three years. I liked psychology, but I had no idea what I wanted to do.

4:19Like what path I wanted to go, do I want to be a counselor, do I want to be a researcher, do I want to be a professor, I don't know, I don't know. So I just stepped back because I was just wandering through it like a nomad. And then I decided I'm going to change switch gears and pursue radio. So I went to creative communications. So that was already scary taking that step. Like once you get out of school, going back is hard. I'm sure it is. It was terrifying, but then when I found out, we don't even get the long weekend, we've got to go back before that. The man is against us. But they're going to, we'll have some fun with the CEO of RC polytech, which by the way was featured last night in the amazing race Canada. We prominently, in fact, and we won't do any spoilers here. But they had to assemble an object at RC polytech's Notre Dame campus, so it showed off that facility as part of the amazing race as a second last leg as they make their way towards

5:26the finale next week. But yeah, it was neat to see them. And it's like, hey, are we speaking to them tomorrow? Yeah, it turns out quite nicely. The timing is perfect. And by the way, tomorrow we're going to be on location at St. Fattel for the baby 500. So I'm not familiar with the apparently we've done this before. We have. We have through our FM partners. Oh, okay. That was going to say, I don't remember doing that. So, Mike and engineer Mike Geissin is here as well as he joins us on location, gets us all set up. Yeah, when did we do this? Well, it was a few years ago. We did, it was a walkathon with our country station. Okay. So we had a bunch of listeners show up to St. Fattel and they put on the miles doing the morning walk. Yeah, that's right. We took track of who walked the furthest and the least amount of time.

6:28Okay. They want to give certificate. So we went mall walkers one year now. We're going with the baby. That would go to babies. Okay. Yeah, sounds like a great cross-pollination of demographics there. That's interesting. So the baby 500 is tomorrow at St. Fattel, but today back to school and at 6.45 we are going to tell you how you can win one of our two prizes. We have tickets for Jan Arden and her holiday orchestra December 8th and we have tickets for destination dinner stage. That's dirty dancing September 19th. So we're going to ask you what's a class that you were surprised you enjoyed or perhaps surprised you were good at? Like I remember what it have just been called electrical, I guess. In junior high? Yeah, when shops or shops. Yeah, probably shops. Yeah, it would probably just been electrical. Yeah, so I believe that was at Murdoch, McKay. So already that was enemy territory. Yes, that was student at Kalay's Pied Elliott Trudeau, one of the French immersion kids

7:30in Transcona. But I remember really enjoying that class and playing with the circuit boards and trying to figure out how to make this light turn on and do the math, involving amps and alms and all that resistance, all that stuff I've since forgotten about. So I was reminiscing with you about the first time I had to go to Kelvin High School for shops. When I was at River Heights School for a very brief period of my life in grade seven and I had no idea how to get to Kelvin High School from River Heights School. I should have known, but I didn't. And I wandered around River Heights aimlessly. I thought I was going in the right direction. And I was mostly finally got there. But now that you mentioned, I remember making a printed circuit board and putting in, you know, installing the transistors and the resistors and learning how all those things work. So I hadn't thought about that particular class until just now, probably in about 40 years. Yeah. Yeah, that stuff was always fascinating.

8:32It's because we were on the cusp, we were at the beginning of the technological era, right? And we were at the realization and to see how all that stuff was working and, you know, making that diode flash red on and off was boy, we were something special, weren't we? We got that working. It is mackling and migrary and we are broadcasting live today. Back to school, we're at Gordon Bell and speaking of school, this half hour is brought to by Booth University College, lead with purpose, with values based leadership and social enterprise management, MBA programs designed for working professionals visit Booth UC.ca. And before we get into an interesting discussion, Richard Klucche had yesterday on the subject of crime and leaving the city of Winnipeg, mackling, the reference, the beautiful soccer field,

9:34we've got right outside the school here at Gordon Bell, Mike and I, Mike Gaias and engineer Mike and I were just outside for a moment. And there's a dude out there kicking a ball around. Fantastic. And he knows what he's doing. He was doing some, you know, knee jabby, jabby things and bouncing it off his head. And yeah, this is a guy that's dedication to the beautiful game. Well, I think it's wonderful that they have the lights on. I don't know if the lights are on 24 hours a day, but like, you know, so that's available 24 hours. I think it is anytime I drive by, I don't think I've ever seen the field dark. So I think that's fantastic. And for those that don't know exactly where Gordon Bell is, that field Brett's talking about was I think midway Chrysler way back in the day. Yeah. And they tore that down and made way for that field. And we're going to build a postal, a new postal depot there, which ended up going at the airport. Anyway, that's at the intersection of Broadway and Portage Avenue and Gordon Bell's just

10:36one really one block east of that in between Portage and Maryland on Maryland. Okay. So back to school, we're at Gordon Bell. We're going to hear from some kids at Mulvey down the, just down the block from here. And we understand we might be getting to speak with some members of the student council here at Gordon Bell. So that's exciting stuff. But right now we want to share with you, just follow up on a chat that Richard had yesterday at 4.35 in the afternoon. And it has to do with crime and the police response or the potential lack thereof, is it pertain to some stolen property? That's right. And the compliment is the guest that joined Richard Cluche to share his frustration with the fact that he had some good stolen. He had the technology to track, said goods and was probably hoping for a little bit more assistance from WPS in terms of getting those items back and Brett when things didn't really

11:40go the way that he had hoped he made a pretty drastic decision. Yeah. Yeah, I guess the house is broken into August 1st. Police did arrive quickly, but after Connor found this assailant, you know, a related arrest was made. But you know, we'll get you to hit a piece of audio here in a moment, Jeff Forte, because Connor, Templeman joined Richard Cluche live to talk about why they put their house up for sale. The Winnipeg police have said this, we have located and arrested somebody, not the person on your camera. Police told you about that, right? Yes, yeah. They told us they came with some stuff that they found in this guy's bag and said, definitely wasn't the first guy, but we've got your ID and your car keys. So we're thinking you might want those back. But yeah, definitely not the first guy. Criminal investigations, they write can be complex and time consuming, often requiring officers to gather evidence, reviewing information, conduct the interviews, follow investigative

12:42leads to ensure a thorough and accurate outcome. At the same time, police services must continually respond to incoming calls for service, which are assessed and prioritized based on risk and urgency, incidents involving an imminent threat to life, personal safety, or public safety, receive the highest priority and require the most immediate response while property crimes remain important and are investigated, they generally receive a lower response priority than situations where there is an identified danger to life or a significant risk of harm. This prioritization ensures that available resources are directed first to those incidents where immediate intervention is most crucial. I think we understand that, but you had the guy, you were looking at him, not once, but twice. Yeah, I mean, I completely understand they've got bigger and better things to do, but it is that fact that we were there, we saw him, we were calling and in the north end, we're calling on emergency and they're saying, we have some people in the area, but they're busy, but we're seeing police cars go by with no lights on. They don't seem to be in a hurry anywhere.

13:43One of those guys just felt like one of them could turn around and check Salter. Do you think it would be different if you lived in the south end of the city? I haven't really given that much thought. I do think that maybe because there's less going on, they would have somebody that would be around the corner that could just check it out. They don't have anything else that they're waiting for or rushing to. So you put the house up for sale? Yeah, this was, I mean, a pretty big wake up call we had been thinking about moving and this was just that last kick. I mean, what else do you do? It's just that fear now of him or somebody else coming back and just doing the exact same thing at the exact same time and us having it on camera and having his ping, but calling it in and just being told, we'll get it, we'll get to it. If you sold, we have not sold yet, but we have bought. Where you going? You moving out? Moving out. We figured if the city is not going to be the safe place we expected it to be, then we are going out to Altona. That is where my wife is from. And we thought we'd come into the city and try a couple of years here and we're proven that maybe we are just a country folk.

14:44It's already see you go. Yeah, it does suck to, I mean, this is the city I was born in. I was raised in. I know that there was always a fear of certain parts of the city, but coming back and moving into the north end for two years was sort of like that. No, you know, there are good, every part of the city is good. There's just bad apples, but two years we had nothing and then in these last couple months, it just feels like there isn't maybe that urgency. It isn't keeping people away from doing these crimes. Couple of things that jump out. It just highlights just how many serious issues are going on in the city that are keeping our police busy. I've referenced this discussion at least a couple of times over the last several years Brett, but I think you'll remember in our old studio having at mayor at the time Brian Bowman sit and justify the fact that when a pig police would no longer be coming to your house when you have a break in and that you would go online and file your police report. And then that way you would have your police report numbers so you could go and make

15:45your claim with insurance. And at that time, I echo just the sentiment that for many of us, we may never interact with police. That might be the only ever time that we interact with police is you suffer a break in, you suffer a loss of physical property which shakes your sense of safety. And then the police are not coming to see you. And now Connor Templeman knows exactly where those stolen goods are and police don't have time to come and help retrieve those goods and make them feel better about where he lives. That's not that for most of us. That doesn't matter how busy they are otherwise. This is for me a feeling of I just don't matter then. Good morning, chats are brought to you by reliable heating and air conditioning, family

16:48strong, reliable strong wind-upick strong, visit them at reliableheatair.ca. And since we are broadcasting live as the kids go back to school this week including today Gordon Bell is where we are. We'll hear from some students and staff at Mulvey a little bit later this morning. We want to ask you what's a class? It doesn't matter what level of school this was in. But what's a class you were surprised you enjoyed? Like, oh really? I got to take clothing for shops or something that you were surprised you were good at. It was 204 780 68 68 Macling, you want to kick us off? Typing. Typing? Yeah, typing would have been was a 205. Is that the right? Am I thinking of university numbers or high school? I think that was the right class number. Typing 205 in grade 11 and it was it's a skill. I'm still terrible at but I would have been even worse at it had I not taken that class

17:50once upon a time. And it was one of those classes where you learned a skill that was usable for the rest of your life and I really enjoyed it. I got a girlfriend out of the class. It was great. Excellent. I had it. You know, you mentioned it. I was pretty solid in typing class as well. And Monsieur Petco's typing class, Dectilography, as it was called in French immersion. One more time? Dectilography. I love that. But I had a leg up because my parents got us to start learning how to type with that. Mavis Beacon teaches typing. Was the name of the program on the laptop my dad brought home from work. So I already had a head start. So and then once I taught myself how to swear, how to type the F word really fast. Yeah. That actually helped me become a faster type. That's very interesting. Type the four letters over and over and over again.

18:51It's fun. It's a good way to blow off some steam and it made me giggle the whole time. Because I am a five year old. My grandparents used to have like a typewriter in their office when we were little kids and I can remember my my Grammy teaching us out of the ASD semi colonel cage and space. And I was like a toy and a thing that we would do when we went to Grammy and Grandpa's house. I remember like eight years old by pinky fingers hurt just thinking about trying to hammer down on that A and that semi colon probably weight 150 pounds. I want to know how Greg got a girlfriend from typing class. So was she like, oh, the sounds of that keyboard. My word. Greg. I'm trying to me and you know, the rest is history. Greg. I'll fill you in on how to talk to talk to girls. Type the girls. Type the girls. Greg was a smooth operator. She was a ser... Hey! I see what you did there for a day.

19:53What about you, Sarah? Oh, just a typing class memory. I guess it was computer lab by this point. I just remember a quick just one off. I remember I was spelling the word shirt and I left out an important letter. So yes, I was told really quickly to correct that. Anyway. Yeah, that was in a few sentences after that, not by mistake. For me, it was Cosmetology class in high school. I don't remember why I ended up taking it if I just was like, ah, a bunch of my friends are taking this or if I was trying to check off one of the boxes of the requirements in a certain class or whatnot. But yeah, I'm not like a super girly girl by any means. I play sports like I don't dress super girly, but I don't know. I like doing like other people's hair and you got to take the weird little men can at home with you and not always sparks some stories at home. But yeah, now though, I can't be bothered to like do my hair at all. So that didn't really serve me well, but it was fun at the time.

20:59I'm still giggling about shirt. Tyson, what about you? I'm going to throw another ballad into keyboarding and typing. It was just a great class. Had a lot of fun. I was getting over 100 words per minute. It was just thriving in it and we had a great teacher. So shadowed to Mrs. Taves for making keyboarding the best class of grade 10. You got to 100 words a minute. Oh, yeah, no big deal. Can you still do that? Oh, yeah. That's never left. Look at this rip away on the keyboard. And like that's part of the job too, right? And it's just typing a bunch. So that's just kind of kept going and going since grade 10. I'm going to be watching for this. Yeah, we're going to have to test. You can do it. You can do it. You should have a face off with Lauren McNeibb and Christian O'Mell. Yes. Too fast as typist. Maybe you're the fastest. I sense an Olympic challenge. Perfect. And for today, what about you? Drama. I was surprised. I didn't think I was going to like drama.

22:00I was surprised. It's because I didn't really feel like school. It was more just like hanging out in the theater. And there was one class each year where the teacher turned off all the lights and we just lie on the stage and she tells stories. And if you fell asleep, you fell asleep. It was awesome. You got a credit for that? Oh, yeah. It is Macling and McGarry. It's a big day, special day, back to school. We are doing our annual back to school broadcast. Where do we find ourselves this year, Greg? We are at the home of the Panthers. We are Gordon Bell. I was going to say high school, but it's Gordon Bell. Senior and senior high school were at the intersection essentially of Maryland and Broadway. You know the soccer field or the activity field at Broadway and Portage. It's one of the coolest things in the inner city in Winnipeg. And we're thrilled to be here. I guess I'm back as I realized on my way here this morning.

23:01I did summer school here in grade nine to go into grade 10. Otherwise, they weren't going to let me into Daniel Mac. I'm back, baby. We have a couple of guests here who are excited as well. We have Julie Popki, who is the vice principal. Hello, they're Julie. Good morning. And Kelsey Shiro is the guidance counselor. Hello there. Good morning. Why don't we start with you because you're wearing a really snazzy sweater. Purple. It's my favorite color. But the logo has the number 100 around it. Yes, we are celebrating Gordon Bell's 100th anniversary this year. Was it, is there a reunion or anything like that? We are having a big celebration coming up in October from October 8 to 10. So we're pretty excited about all of that coming up pretty soon. So am I correct in the research? Mulvey school was actually originally here. And Gordon Bell was originally where Mulvey school is once upon a time. That is correct. So here we are all these years later, 100 years later, and Gordon Bell.

24:03Now a fixture in the community, I think just about everybody knows where this school is. What's the legacy here? What will you be celebrating about the last 100 years, Kelsey? What are Gordon Bellers? What are Panthers most proud of? So many different things. So on the Thursday, we're going to have an open house so people can come and see the school, which is really exciting because our renovations are finally complete. And then on the Friday, we'll be having a time capsule ceremony. So we have a 1960 time capsule that we're going to be opening and revealing. And then we will be creating a new 2026 time capsule that we will be putting a week away for the next anniversary to celebrate. On the Saturday, there will be a whole bunch of events here celebrating, like you said, the things that Gordon Bell is really proud of. So we'll be acknowledging the history of the arts at Gordon Bell sports. We have a long-standing history of reach for the top success, a well-known TV show from a few decades ago. And we'll be saluting the teachers past and present of Gordon Bell.

25:05And then the whole celebration sort of caps off with a social at Canada's Polo Park on the Saturday night. Sounds like a blast. So on how excited are you, Julie, the vice principal here at Gordon Bell? Super excited. Can't wait to see the kids in a couple of hours. Yeah. What does your day look like? Today is primarily welcoming back our great sevens and eights. And just getting the new kids in, getting them used to this big new building in a different environment and getting to feel their sense of being a panther. Yeah. And given your role, do the students excited to see you? Are they scared to see you? I would hope that they're excited to see me. Yeah. We have all of our staff have super great relationships with our kids. And I know the kids have missed all the staff in the building and they are super eager. I know last week when there were some teachers in the building, kids were coming in and trying

26:06to get into their classrooms and see their teachers. So they're definitely anxious and ready to come back. Julie, we were having a conversation off air before we came on about some of the challenges that maybe, you know, if you're in a different socioeconomic circumstance, your families are maybe facing challenges that the rest of us don't really contemplate or think about. Is that something that you have to deal with here at Gordon Bell? And what are some of the unique ways you go about making sure kids can get to school and get the education that they want and that they need? Yeah, it definitely is for some of our kids. And you know, there's so many great programs in place that support schools in general, like our Universal Nutrition program. We offer breakfast and lunch for kids every day. Now the new bus pass program will help to get kids to school. And again, our teachers and our staff just do whatever they need to do to support each and every individual student. It's student by student case by case and we are out and about in helping students in

27:10so many ways. Can you expand? Maybe Kelsey, you have a take on this as well, the bus pass program. How this might help kids. You know, you say, oh, it'll help kids get to class. But it's like, well, how? Some people might be asking. Well, I think, you know, we know Winnipeg weather. Today we would like it to be sunny. It's not yet. And we know what's coming in the coming months. And I think we're moving a barrier for students to safely and easily access school without wondering how they're going to get there in the morning. I think is a huge benefit to so many students. Large catchment, Julie, like your students come from far and wide in Winnipeg one or? Yes, I think so. So I have to admit, I'm not exactly clear on what our exact boundaries are, but we do go right into downtown. So we have kids coming right from, you know, the corner of Portage and Maine. So it is quite a distance and being able to hop on a bus and not worry about the cost or anything like that, having that bus pass handy, they don't have to come to the office

28:14to ask for a bus ticket anymore. They've got it with them all the time. It's just super easy. I'm just in terms of having a solid infrastructure for these students, like as we look out the window here, you've got, I don't remember this being here, but you've got a beautiful track. You've got wonderful courts that are painted in sort of in the interior of this track. It looks like there are going to be some bass, a whole bunch of basketball hoops, like how much of a shot in the arm is that for the students to have access to this? That is huge. And it is brand new that track is literally a couple weeks old. There will be two full basketball courts that will be painted very shortly. And already we've had community members. We've seen kids and adults out there rolling, blading, roller skating. So that in addition with the green space, literally both sides of the school are now ready to welcome community and just come and hang out at the school. It becomes a community resource at that point in time, which is great, right? It makes it safer, it makes people embrace and wonder what's going on.

29:19And that play area, that was gravel forever. Maybe it was gravel up until just a few years ago. Wasn't much of a play space at all for anyone. Absolutely not. And now there's also pickleball courts out there. So it is truly a multi-use facility. Yeah. Well, Julie Popkey, vice principal in Kelsey Shiro, guidance counselor at Gordon Bell. Thank you for joining us this morning. I know it's a busy day, but we're glad to see you're excited. And again, I love that purple sweater. So well done. There's a link online if people want to purchase their Gordon Bell alumni and a hundred thousand. They can just go to our school website, click on the community tab and a hundred thousand thousand anniversaries, the first link there. So check it out. Where are your colors with pride, people? It is Macling and McGarry. Greg Macling with Brett McGarry. This half hour is brought to you by the co-operators. Protect what matters most with insurance you can count on.

30:21Visit co-operators.ca. And Greg, as we broadcast from Gordon Bell this morning, it's M&M. It's about to become M&M and M&M. That's right. Well, it might be because we need a six M. A microphone. And micers. Oh my gosh. One, two, three, four, five, six M's. And it is, I hadn't thought about it this way until Mishka and Matea brought in this really cool frame that they're going to walk around. It's the seniors for seniors today. It's their last first day. Oh yeah. Of course. Well, of course, of this stage of their educational journey. And so we do have the head of the M&M regime co-presidents of Gordon Bell High School. We say good morning to Matea. Good morning, Matea. Good morning. Hi, Mishka. Good morning. And we also have Malie. Malie, are you on the student council as well?

31:22Yes, I am. What is your role on student council? I kind of manage the social media just a bit, yeah. Okay. So this little frame that you've got going here, that's going to play nicely on the social media. When we start with you, Matea, why did you get in front? You were involved in student council. Well, I actually just joined student council last year. And I made that decision because I really wanted to get involved in my school community more because I wanted to make a difference. And I think it was great to join student council because I made more friends. I helped to bring my grade closer together and form that community I was talking about. How much time does student council take up from you? So we meet once a week at lunch and we also do like a lot of volunteer hours beyond that and we help like plan and set up the events. So there's more time during that. And you've been here since grade seven?

32:24Yes. So this has been a long time for you now, Mishka, you have been at Gordon Bell since grade nine, I think you told me. Yes. You were then a newcomer to Canada. And so did that help you just to become a part of the community yourself? What drew you to student council? So in my grade nine year, I focused on being like adapted into the community and then throughout the year I looked around and saw that I need to take more initiative. So in grade 10, I decided to join student council so that I can get that leadership experience and also help my grade move to the top. Because well in grade games, we were always last place, but last year we succeeded in getting second place because I was one of the team captains with Matea. And ever since student council, I've done so much for the school community.

33:30I've made so many new friends and I met so many people. I even met Bob Knoe once and I also made connections with people outside of Manitoba. So I even connected with other youth leaders through student council. And what about you, Malia? What's here? What's your next student council? I was in student council for grade seven actually, but then I kind of stopped because I had so many other extracurriculars. But just this year I rejoined because I just wanted to do a bunch of fun stuff for a grade. As Mishka had mentioned, our grade kept losing the grade wars every year. And this year I want to come out on top and I just want to do so much fun stuff. What are these grade wars, these grade games? Basically every year, throughout the whole year, we have a bunch of games and we participate in a bunch of activities and you get points based off how much you like do things, basically school spirit. And we didn't have that much school spirit as a grade, but this year I want to bring

34:34the whole school spirit up for every grade and I just want to do a whole bunch of fun stuff for the school year. Now Malia, you were part of a pretty special trip. Was it this year or last year? Last year in November. Where did tell us where you went? We went to the Canadian battlegrounds in Europe. We went to the Netherlands, France and Belgium. For what? Just to see the Canadian battlegrounds for a remembrance day, yeah. Wow. And how did it went into that trip that you have to do fun raising? Or did you just like... It was all paid for I think, yeah. Wow. One of the special experience. So Mateo, as you look to your final year, what are you hoping to accomplish as co-president? Well, I think I can do a lot as co-president, so I'm really excited for that. I'm looking forward to just making this the best senior year possible for our fellow grade 12s, planning a bunch of fun events and activities for them and yeah, just really

35:40bring them together as a community. And yeah, I'm just really excited to help everyone participate in our school events. We were earlier extolling the virtues of the renovation not only of the school, but of the play area, Mishka. And so that's going to be a neat kind of an extra facility for students because that's been like a gravel playground for a long, long time. Now it's something really special. Yeah, and I'm also really excited about it because there will be a team coming in to paint the hard top and the design of the basketball court was designed by our students. Really? Yeah. Now that's a group of... Is it buckets and borders that comes in and does that? I know they work with the sea bears to get basketball courts painted really in real cool colors. Can you try and paint us a radio picture of what that court's going to look like?

36:44Well, I think it's going to be like kind of a collage of all of our ideas. So I don't know exactly what the design will look like, but most likely it will involve panthers in some way. Cool. And you know at this morning where one of the questions we're asking is, what's a class that you were surprised you liked or a class that you were surprised how good at you were? Anything jumped to mind for you? Like, well, you ever go in a class thing? I'm not really looking forward to chemistry or whatever. Actually, it was chemistry. I thought I would do like well because there was a bunch of math, but I had a lot of fun with the experiments that we did and I actually liked a lot of the topics that we covered. How about you, Miska? I actually really liked pre-cal. That's kind of controversial. Why is that? Because I just felt like pre-cal just like came to me.

37:46Like it was just like, I wasn't in flow state in pre-cal just because I came from the Philippines and our education system is basically more advanced than over here. So when I moved here and then I got into the math stuff of everything, even including physics and chemistry, all of it just like came to me really easily. So I really did a good job in that class. Okay, so you had a leg up, so to speak. Yeah. It's the controversy. People like she's already got this. She's teaching the class at some point. What about you, Miska? I would agree with Miska. I think pre-cal because I didn't really know what to expect going into it. All I heard was, oh, it's so hard. Like you're not going to like it. But I actually do like it because it helped me be more challenged in a way that my other classes didn't. And I actually really enjoyed that.

38:47And I think it pushed me and I really enjoyed learning all the new concepts and stuff. Our teacher was great. So yeah. If you're concerned about the future of Canada, don't be. It's a really, really good house. Yeah. You know, these young people have a really good concept of what it takes to succeed and what's required, the work required. And you all seem to have a vision for the future. Thanks for making some time with us today. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you for having us. Mitea, Mishka and Malie, grade 12 students as part of the student council as well. Have a great first day back. Your final first day back at least at this level. Before you let you go, what university or college or what's next for you, Mitea? I think university after high school. Yeah. Mishka? Definitely university. I want to go into software engineering. One minute, Malie. Definitely, yeah, university. Okay. Well, Godspeed. All three of you today have fun here at Gordon Bell.

39:49It's Mackling McGarry. Mishka, Mitea and Malie and engineer Mike and Greg's off to Mulvey. Let's throw in another M. Seven M's, maybe. It's Mackling and McGarry. This hour of the start is brought to you by Canada's first drive through only McDonald's at 540, Keniston Boulevard. Crews in today. We're broadcasting live in a couple of places now. I am at Gordon Bell, which is a junior high and high school. And before we tell you where Greg is, I didn't exactly think I might need sunblock as we are inside. But the sun just broke through the clouds and it was hammering me through the window. So thanks to engineer Mike for taking one of our banners and figuring out how to block that out. So that was fun. Mackling has left this building and made his way to another one. And far where do you find yourself, Greg? Well, Brett, not surprisingly, I'm in the principal's office. At a boy. I'm actually at the original Gordon Bell high school.

40:53I'm at Mulvey School, which for those that don't know is at the corner of Maryland and Wolvesley Avenue. And I'm with the principal and she shares me. I'm not in any trouble. Amanda O'Hung is here with us this morning. Amanda, your second day on the job here. Congratulations. Thank you so much. I'm not so sure if you're not in trouble, you might. Here we go, Brett. It's already the guessing games have begun. But Amanda, I have to ask you, you and I were just discussing the different ways that your students get to school every day. Some might bike. Maybe they get a ride with a family member or a friend. But you have something called a walking school bus that's going to get underway in a couple weeks for those that have never heard of it. What is that? The walking bus is kind of what we do here to make sure the students come to school every day. So we have staff go to certain spots and pick up the kids on the way to school and we walk them home as well. So this initiative has been in Mulvey School for many years.

41:56This is just kind of provide, we reduce barriers and increase accessibility for students to get to school especially with parents busy working. So we want to provide as much as possible and some students come to school by bus and the new initiative by the city with a free transit bus pass and we will also offer that offer that to some of the students who need it. And Amanda, just out of curiosity, Mulvey School, what grades do you have in that school? It's NK Nursery, kindergarten all the way to grade six. And our students and most of them go to Gordon Bell as well. Okay. And just in general sense, how excited are you for today? I am so excited and the kids are coming to school and they are what makes our school the best school. So we are all staff we're trying so hard to get the school ready including from the

42:58custodian to every staff members yesterday we were just hustling and getting the school ready and the welcoming the students this morning. One thing, Brett, I don't know if I'm sure you noticed it, Brett, but I noticed it this morning at Gordon Bell and here at Mulvey, just how clean everything is, how bright it is, just how welcoming the actual facility is, how conscientious is that, how important is that, Amanda, as an educator that your facility be physically welcoming place? That is very important and for students mental health and for everybody's learning, environment is the first thing all educators really care about. How do we create a space that feels sense of belonging, feel how families and students feel welcomed. Every classroom, they also did kind of audit yesterday. Is it accessible to all students, especially for students with wheelchairs and is it safe for everybody?

43:59Is the space welcoming, do the students feel belong? Do we have books that represent the students? All of that taking to consideration is part of our pedagogical stance and choices so to speak and the school represents what we believe and welcoming students to do the best they can to learn and feel belong and welcome and build a community. This morning we're asking this question for fun but I'm curious to get your take on the question is what is a class that you were either surprised you were good at or surprised that you liked but from an educator's standpoint, how do you foster that in kids who are maybe reluctant to take a class or aren't excited to take a class because they might end up being really good at it. It could be the future, the future career. Exactly. I think that is part of many layers of inclusion that we want to talk about.

45:02I think first and foremost, a teacher's passion about feeling just the wanting the desire to help students learn and secondly, the passion for the subject area. Me personally, if you are here, you'll see lots of books and my passion for books and what I want to bring to the students and that's what just show through in the class. So for the students who are reluctant to learn, we pay extra attention to the first and foremost relationship. Once the students feel seen and valued, I think everything else comes. And we educators, when we show the passions to what we want to bring to the students, I think that connection naturally just will take place in the classroom. We're at Mulvey School, the co-principle, her second day on the job, Brett Amanda Huang. Amanda, thanks so much. It was great to meet you today and have a wonderful day. Thank you so much. Everybody, here we go.

46:03Happy first day. Oh, Mackling, you know what, it's funny. I know I've joked about this on the air many, many times, but that 7am to 8.30am stretch is often my least favorite part of the day and I always link it to, that's the time you had to get up and go to school. So I hate that time of the day. But every year we do these back to school broadcasts and I'm excited for everybody to be going back to school this week. So yeah, this is fun. Yeah, and you can sense the excitement of the staff and then we've been so lucky to speak to some students already and there's just that air of a renewal that, you know, Loren McNeib often talks about that the beginning of September is actually the beginning of the new year and that's because for so many of us it has to do with fall and school and sort of that fresh start that September can offer so many of us.

47:10It's back to school week. We're on location today and we have divided in an attempt to conquer. We are at Gordon Bell, junior high in high school. That's where I'm at with engineer Mike, but Greg has made his way over to Mulvey and I would imagine Greg, the kids are starting to roll in because they've been rolling in here at Gordon Bell. I've already witnessed some some horse play as it were and learning new terminology like dipped. I think that that means to disappear. I heard some one of the young guys saying, man, you two wouldn't even recognize it if I dipped. So I imagine that means just turned around and didn't come in. I don't know. But yeah, the kids roll in into Mulvey school on Walsley. Nine o'clock things get underway here. So it's mostly staff right now. And so I'm not sure if I'm the favorite person of my two people, my two students that are standing across from me because they had to come to school early so that they could go on the radio and I'm getting the smiles. If to say, yep, you got that right, Greg.

48:13We're not necessarily happy about coming early, but hopefully you're happy to be on the radio. Nettle, good morning. Good morning. And you're in grade six. Grade six. And Nathan, you're in grade six as well? Yes. Good morning. When did you start coming to Mulvey school? In kindergarten. In kindergarten. Now I need you guys to speak up just a little bit so everybody can hear you, okay? And Nettle, when did you come to Mulvey school? Grade one. Grade one. Okay. So I gave you guys a couple of questions to think about the answers. So I didn't necessarily surprise you with things. So Nathan, first thing I'm going to ask you, what's your favorite subject and why in school? My favorite subject is basketball and I love basketball because I'm very good at it. So this is a subject in school now, is basketball? Yeah. Okay. So math is not an option. Science is an option. Well, if Jim, I'll pick Jim. Jim, okay. Nathan, you can tell Brett very quickly when Nathan walks in the room because he's got a

49:14Michael Jordan T-shirt with all of Michael Jordan's rings on a gold hand and finger. So you can tell where Nathan's mind is. Nettle, what about you? What's your favorite subject and why? Probably science because I like to do science experiments. What sort of experiments you like? The chemistry? What do you like? Chemistry, honestly, yeah. Chemistry, yeah. Okay. Now will you be going to Gordon Bell next year? I'm not sure yet. We haven't decided. Okay, Nathan? I'm not sure either. Yeah. So you guys are the Mulvey Mustangs. Do you play sports other than basketball, Nathan? Yeah. What do you do? I play flag football. Flag football. How do you like the flag football? It's very good. Good. Nettle, do you play flag football? I know you play volleyball, right? Yeah, I play barementin. But I was on the barementin team, though. And I also play flag football with him. Fantastic. So it's co-ed. It's boys and girls on the flag football team? Yeah. How do you like that? It's fun. It's fun. Okay, excellent. Okay. Now, what about other clubs that you do?

50:14Are you in some other clubs, Nettle? I don't know. I'm not sure. No? No? What about last year? Were you in any clubs last year? Nope. Nope. Nathan? Well, only basketball and soccer. Basketball and soccer. Okay. So what do you like most about coming to Mulvey School? I like all the subjects in Mulvey School. Yeah. Are there, do you get along with the teachers? How do you find the teachers here? It's just between you and me. They're very nice. Yeah. Very good. And what about you, Nettle? What do you like most about Mulvey School? It's a big school. The teachers here are really nice to staff. I have help a lot whenever I need it. That's great. Well, I really appreciate, we really appreciate you making extra time and coming early today. I don't have any, you know, any sandwiches or anything to give you as a thank you, but I will shake your hand and wish you the best of luck on your first day of grade six.

51:18Thanks, Nettle. Thank you. Nathan? Thank you. Have a great day. Okay, we'll see you again. There you go, Brett. Nathan and Nettle. We got the N and N gang down here at Mulvey School. That's right. We're just shoe worn locked into the middle of the alphabet this morning. Yeah, for those who missed it earlier, at 735, we had three students on Mishka, Mateja and Malee, all grade 12 students. So we had five M's and then of course, engineer Mike is here. So that's six and now Greg's at Mulvey, which is seven and we've moved on to the end. So that's fantastic. In grade six, that was a fun year for me at a cold region park, Micev Bilado or Serbil. As we called him, yeah, he was a tremendous teacher and he had quite the moustache, but yeah, he was a lot of fun.

52:19Yeah, you mentioned earlier, Greg, how you hadn't thought about a certain class in like 40 years. And every time we do these broadcasts, it's the flood of memories that sort of washes over me at least. I don't want to speak for you, but yeah, it's funny the things that we forget and then hopefully enjoy remembering. For sure. And I guess, you know, I went attended a bunch of different schools over the years and went to the very first underground school in Canada and River Heights in Brandon. So that was we were part of the very first classes in that school back in 1978 or 79. And then one of the older schools in the city going to Isaac Brock and Mulvey School was built way back in the early 1900s. But it's incredible all the wood and the glass and the floors. Oh my gosh, the floors are so shiny and the pride that's taken to keep these older facilities up.

53:25It just brings back memories of how incredible Isaac Brock School always looked despite its age. And we're really lucky in this part of the world to have the older buildings that we have, including these school buildings that continue to serve the community in such a special way. And in terms of keeping schools clean and we're looking into this. So I'm not going to say which schools, but we've had a couple of reports come in on our text line about some schools that unfortunately were victims of the recent storm due to flooding. So there, there, the sounds like there might be some schools out there that are not getting back to things as usual as they had hoped because of flooding from those storms. So we're looking into that and a little bit later on still on the school front and this was just this wasn't planned. It just worked out perfectly because we like to speak with our friends at RSC Polytech in our second Wednesday of the month.

54:26And that happens to be today. So we're going to be joined by the CEO of our C Polytech because they actually went back last week. And they're already looking ahead to the winter term and then looking ahead to September 20, 27 already as well. And Greg, remind me how old are your boys again? They're 20. So one of the boys is first day back at university is today. And then the other boy is working full time. So it's a busy time for lots of folks that are either getting back. It doesn't matter which level of school all the way from nursery and kindergarten all the way into university and everything in between. Brad, I have to ask you before we fly here, were you ever able to pass the water fountain without stopping for a drink? No, no. No, no. No, no. I'm sitting right across from one of the water fountains here in Mulvey and all I can think about is getting this simple water.

55:26I could never pass a water fountain without stopping. Well, I'll let you get to that. And Greg's going to make it back. Check for gum. Check for gum. That's right. So I forgot about those pranks. Great day here at Gordon Bell and Mulvey School back to school. And of course, it's not all the kids are going back today. Sort of a staggered thing for depending on the school this week here in Winnipeg. But in the meantime, we have a winner to announce coming up shortly in Mr. Forti and pipe up some music here. We got to get ready for the blue and gold date night, which is a contest. We have at cjob.com. I haven't just checked. I got to check the date to make sure I think we're giving away tickets for the banjo bowl. Yeah, it's tickets for the banjo bowl this Saturday, September 12th at Princess Auto Stadium. So maybe it's you.

56:35It's Mackling and McGarry. We got a couple of prizes to give away. And before we're asking you this morning of a classes that you, because we're back to school, we're at Gordon Bell. We're asking you about a class that you were surprised you liked, like one where you thought, I don't want to take this stupid course. And then you turn out to really dig it. Or maybe one that you were surprised at how good you were at it. Shardinay Sherry, one of her pre-runners up, says in junior high, I had to take industrial arts because all the dudes signed up for Holmeck, Holmeckonomics. Well, I ended up loving it, says Sherry. I made a checkerboard out of wooden tile that I still have somewhere. Saudering gun, made a saudering gun, and learned a lot, so much fun in that class. I actually signed up again the next semester, and I was the only girl, of course. And probably the reason why I love tools and consider myself pretty handy around the house. And I said, why did the guys all go to Holmeck? Because of the chicks. And she says, of course, they did idiots. They should have stayed in industrial arts because at following semester, there were a lot more girls.

57:38I don't know, baking cookies and making chocolate cake with some of your male friends with a good move for me. I'm just going to say. Our runner up today said, and this just put a smile on her face. And yep, there may be some favoritism here, but so what's our contest, our rules? Is Timmy? Timmy says, I love all my classes, because I never left school, because believe it or not, I am a teacher at Gordon Bell. Cheers to that. So Timmy Sharma, you're going to win one of our prizes, but Greg, our winner today can hopefully make her way in for one of the prizes. That will remind you what they are in a moment, because she's coming from Dauphin. That's right. Janus says I was a shy 12 year old girl who was never supposed to be good at shop class, but welding class. I'm pretty sure that's what they called it. I made a cookie sheet, and I still use it today. It's got 30 years and endless dozens of cookies baked on it.

58:38I was very shocked at my ability. My teacher said it was because I listened to the instructions and was respectful to the torch. You have to respect the tools, McGarry. Love that. Respectful to the torch. So there you go. Janus and Dauphin, you win, and then we'll offer Timmy the other prize, and those prizes are Jan Arden and her holiday orchestra December 8th, or at the Centennial Concert Hall, or destination dinner stage. That's dirty dancing September 19th, and we have more of those to give away through the week as well. And once again, we gave away tickets last half hour to the banjo bowl. It didn't, I hadn't connected the dots that the blue and gold date night tickets that we were giving away. Sure. We're for this Saturday. Fantastic. So congrats once again to Justin Gray, who says I want to take my son because we don't get out just him and I. How nice is that? Very good. Well, Justin, just be prepared. It's the loudest game of the season. It's always loud at Princess Auto Stadium, but it'll be extra loud on Saturday. So just be prepared.

59:47It's electrifying. Like I, and I say that as somebody who has reached like social anxiety, loud noise has, why are we all screaming? But that the first, when I went in 2019, I could not get over the atmosphere in that place. Where do we find ourselves today? We are at Gordon Bell, Jr. High, slash high school in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, we're at Maryland and Broadway, just south of Maryland and Portage, just to the east of Broadway and Portage where they have that fantastic. Playing field that was once upon a time a car dealership. It's one of the meter things in the inner city that gives our youth a place to congregate and to play soccer and other games and they're getting ready to celebrate their centennial. They're 100th year here at Gordon Bell. That's right. So it's and Greg also had a visit at Mulvey School, not far from here to see the elementary kids.

1:00:53So it's an exciting day as men are told when kids make their way back to school through the day, through the week. Although some of them made their way back last week and it's funny how this all kind of lined up because second Wednesday of the month is typically when we have our visit with our RC polytacks. Once a month we visit with them just so happen to be today, just so happen to be back to school day and it just so happen to follow what aired on television last night, Macling as they were featured in the amazing race Canada. They must be buzzing over at our RC polytacks. President and CEO is our friend Fred Meyer, Fred, good morning. Nice to speak with you again. Good morning, Greg and Fred, how are you today? We're doing great. How are you doing? Like, man, the school look good on national television last night. Yeah, we were so proud. So proud to be featured. It was tough to keep a lid on things. We had this filming earlier in the year and we had to keep things quiet. But yeah, the team here pulled together and did an amazing job.

1:01:57No pun intended and yeah, it looks good on national television last night. We had a viewing party here on campus and a number of our staff who were very involved in pulling everything together were there and yeah, it's a great time. And what a way to kick off the start of another academic year here at our RC polytacks. And indeed, we won't say anything further about the episode. We don't want to spoil it for you, but it was a good as a fan of the show. It was a great episode. It was a tight race. But Winnipeg and Manitoba, they were also in Gimli. Well, it looked really good. So it was a lot of fun. So make sure you look that up. I think there's a replay today. Check your listings or you can probably get it on demand as well. But why don't we start with so you you went back last weekend. I know this is Fred. I know this is supposed to be a friendly visit. As a RRC Creecom alum. I when I had found out I had to go back to school before Labor Day.

1:02:58I was like, what? Who are these monsters? So why do you send them back before Labor Day? Yeah, it's about getting all of that learning in one academic year. As you know, we do we do a lot of applied learning here as well. We've got our students off on co-op placements and practicums. So jamming that all into into a short period of time is tough. So we do start earlier than others. And yeah, it we drag people back here before Labor Day. In fact, we actually have an orientation that happens to reach before that. So we're at it in the latter part of August already. But it's really just to get everything into the academic year. We've we've made a few changes here where we've added now a fall break period and a spring break period. So yeah, we're just trying to get all of that learning into into the time we have available. Fred, can I ask you are there programs that our RC polytech offers that maybe like the public to know a little bit more about and have them realize,

1:04:05hey, you don't have to move somewhere else to take this or that or where you can actually take it at our RC polytech? Yeah, we've we've always been known for our trades and health care training that we do. But there are a lot of programs that people don't understand or recognize our RC polytech for. You know, I'll take our our fiber security program, which has been an incredible program since we launched to hear in the fall of 2025. In fact, when when when we open registration to it, it filled up in two minutes. We had to add a second cohort this fall. We've got six cohorts of cybersecurity and those those graduates are going into all different areas of our economy, you know, not just IT, but but in manufacturing and finance and consulting companies in very high demand in those areas. So, you know, programs like that or programs that we have an artificial intelligence or even in our engineering programs here, you know, we just signed a new agreement last year with University,

1:05:09Manitoba where you can start your engineering career at RC polytech and you can finish it at the University, Manitoba. So yeah, that's just some of the exciting programs we have here. So, you know, last week, you open, you also open the new South Winnipeg campus, right? You know, what can people expect to see there? Yeah, that was part of the MIT transition and we we've got our first group of RC polytech students that are starting in in 14 programs and in the South part of Winnipeg. That includes some new programs for us and so here we're, you know, we're excited to include pharmacy technician program or excited to have a new industrial mechanic, no right program, electronic technicians. Yeah, so there's a number of new programs that we picked up as a part of that transition as well and so happy to say that the enrollment's been extremely strong. We've been well received by the community in South Winnipeg and we've got we've got a lot of new students who are starting there.

1:06:09RC polytech president and CEO Fred Meyer is our guest in this half hour and Fred. This is really about career training, isn't it? It is. It really is and you know, the other thing is it's around the alignment to where the labor market is headed as well. You know, there's students have a lot on their minds as they're graduating high school, you're at Gordon Bell today and you know, they're thinking about, you know, how careers are changing and where is the best place to spend my time in post-secondary work? And in post-secondary education and you know, one of the things that RC polytech has always been strong on is the alignment with the labor market. And so as we're hearing more about manufacturing in aerospace and construction careers and you know, the technology sector is changing, you know, rest assured that RC polytech relies on our industry members and our, you know, leaders in industry to shape the programs we have. So yeah, it's you know, very much aligned with what what's happening in the labor market right now.

1:07:10So in terms of what's on the horizon, you know, we just started with the fall session here, but anything cool that you got cooking up for winter? Yeah, you know, one of the big parts there is that a lot of times people think that they can only start in the fall session. We've got a number of programs with winter intake. So, you know, listen, if you're interested and you sort of, you know, didn't get everything in order to start this fall, there's many opportunities to start in the winter. Explore the programs we have at our RC polytech. We've got an amazing program, a program explorer feature there that allows you to navigate and figure out what we have to offer as well. And then just reach out. We'll have one of our recruitment staff speak with you as well. Any way to see the school before you jump in Fred, like if my kids are thinking about something, can they come down and take a walk, take a look around? Yeah, folks are always welcome. The best is to reach out to us. We do from time to time have program tours on throughout the year. We do have large events like our open doors event that we advertise as well.

1:08:20You can register for the register for those and have a walk around campus and explore see what what we have to offer as well and what campus places like. And one of the things that I'm curious about Fred, like when I was in high school in the 90s, there, you know, it bothers me to say this out loud, but there, there was sort of a line in the sand as it were. And if you were going to university, then you were seen as one of the smart kids. And if you were going to college, you were seen as not like that. And that reason bothers me is I wish that I had explored that option when I was younger. Do you get the sense that that line in the sand has been erased that that that an institution like yours is regarded with just as much respect as any other academic institution.

1:09:20Yeah, I wouldn't say it's completely erased, but we're certainly making headway. There's been a few surveys. And I know it was one of them was highlighting on CGOB around, you know, what parents and what I call influencers and in young folks lives. What they're thinking, they're perceptions of post-secondary education. And what we've seen is we've seen a shift that that people are much more open to careers and education that comes through colleges and polytechnics throughout our country. And I think people are realizing that, you know, when you look at where the jobs are and where the labor market is and how education is changing. That, you know, an education that's, you know, technical in nature that has a lot of applied hands on experience. I'm sure it was the same for you when you went through your program. You know, that's that's highly valued by employers. They're looking for those skills in their employees. And so the opportunity to come here for a couple of years, take a program and then get this extremely valuable industry experience.

1:10:30I think people are changing their perception. How can people learn more Fred? Where do they learn? Where do they study about you? Best places are RC.ca, our website that's got all kinds of information. And then, yeah, check us out on social as well. And, you know, we're always posting about great things that are happening at RC Polytechn and proud moments and opportunities for folks to join our community. And we like to brag about things like amazing race every once in a while. It was cool to see it and wanted to say as well, we got the package that you sent a couple of RC Polytechn ball caps so that I can add something to my hopefully growing Armada of RC merchandise so that I can fly the flag with pride. So thanks for joining us Fred. Always a treat to speak with you. We appreciate this, especially this week for back to school. It's exciting times. Wonderful. Thanks for having me and that's a great week. Fred Meyer, RC Polytechn president and CEO joining us live on 680, CJOP. And obviously I'm speaking ingest when I say they are cruel monsters for sending them back.

1:11:39Oh, no, they are. They are for a labor day. But he's right. They do jam in a lot. RC is trial by fire and that's great because when you're done, you're ready. That's the point, right? Yeah. You're ready to enter the job market is career training. It's not just, you know, a variety of different courses and you get a degree and a way you go. Nothing wrong with that. But this is actually getting ready for life in the world of work. That's a wrap on the start on demand. The very best of the start right here on the start podcast. Greg Macling on behalf of Britt McGarry thanking you so much for spending some time with us in this format. If you like what you hear, why don't you join us Monday through Friday 6 a.m. till 10 a.m. live on AM radio 680 in Winnipeg or anywhere around the world.

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