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“Somebody horked our seats!” cry the Conservatives

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“The time to hesitate is through! No time to wallow in Stephen Harper‘s mire,” Canadian voters announced yesterday with a landslide victory for the Liberal Party and its leader, maple-flavored Jim Morrison clone Justin Trudeau. Harper will step down as Conservative Party leader and, as is Canadian custom, will be stripped of his holdings in Canadian Tire money and jeered in all Tim Horton’s for the next 9 years. The other interesting Canadian, Drake, celebrated election day by putting on a baggy turtleneck sweater and doing the Carlton Dance in Don Johnson’s neon spaceship, which everyone loved because, as Kara Brown explained, Drake is the best at being a dork.

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EA Games makes the ultimate old nerd dream come true.

When you were a kid you had all the action figures. You spent hours fighting the Empire, on your own and with friends. Your bedroom was Mos Eisley, your backyard was Hoth, your love of Jar Jar Binks non-existent. As we begin another hype cycle for The Force Awakens impending arrival in theaters, EA Games and Playstation are tapping into the force of nostalgia for the new game Star Wars Battlefront.

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When the conversation turned to whether governments should be able to override encryption, things got a little tense.

There are few acts in the whole world of journalism that are as kabuki-like as interviewing Apple CEO Tim Cook at a conference. If you’re in the audience, you know that Cook will be asked about current products . . . and that he will praise them, and maybe reveal a stat or two, but won’t say anything utterly expected. He will also be pressed to say things about categories that the company is rumored to be entering . . . and will spill no beans other than maybe allowing that a field is interesting. Almost certainly, he will find time to mention the importance of the Chinese market.

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The network, launching on October 20, will focus on shareable stories and integrated advertising.

Three miles south of CNN’s Manhattan headquarters, in an office marked not with the broadcast company’s familiar three-letter logo, but a red rocket ship, about 30 new employees have spent the last several weeks stealthily preparing to launch the broadcast network’s answer to publications like Vice and Buzzfeed: Great Big Story.

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Model Ashley Graham is turning her lingerie line into a cause. This is good news for Lena Dunham, Serena Williams, and women everywhere.

Walking triumphantly down the Tommy Hilfiger runway at the end of a show during New York Fashion Week in September while holding hands with her fellow models, Gigi Hadid looked happy and confident.

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The fast-growing messaging and media app has seen star talent exit quickly. What’s behind those buzzy departures and what they really mean.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been able to recruit an impressive roster of top-tier talent to his Venice, California-based startup. And that’s why when some of those same high-profile hires have departed, often rather quickly, questions have been raised about the direction of the company as well as about Spiegel’s abilities as a manager. The list of notable Snapchat departures is growing fast. There’s Snapchat engineering VP Peter Magnusson, who left in 2014; COO Emily White, who decamped earlier this year; and sales head Mike Randall and HR chief Sara Sperling, who both left not long before White. Shannon Petranoff, a former Paramount VP who joined Snapchat in March, only to return to Paramount in September; The Information reported last month that Snapchat had fired its chief talent officer Simmi Singh; and original content leader Marcus Wiley, a former Fox executive, departed Snapchat just weeks ago when the company shut down its original content initiative, for now at least.

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The Zillow Group family of apps and websites dominates real estate. Here’s how CEO Spencer Rascoff achieves his goals lightning-quick.

“Critical” is a favorite word of Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow Group.

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