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    "byline": "By:",
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    "excerpt": "With a US president who talks of making Canada the 51st state, its leader in Europe where it\u2019s not quite the EU's 28th state on offer, but something the president of the European Commission is calling \u2018associate membership\u2019. We\u2019ll ask what that means, how it differs from the close status afforded to the likes of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK which Carney\u2019s also visiting ahead of his own Strasbourg speech Thursday before the European Parliament.",
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    "title": "The 28th state? Carney's Canada draws closer to European Union"
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