Suburban<\/a>.<\/p>\nNote: \u00a0Josh Arless has contacted me to say that he won’t be able to attend Riverview because he’ll be at the meeting at the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Elementary School.<\/p>\n
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Suanne Stein Day, the chair of Lester B. 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