CALGARY – The scoring rampage continues for Cutter Gauthier.

The NHL’s hottest sniper extended his goal streak to five games Friday by scoring the game-winner as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Calgary Flames 5-3.

“Just keeping it simple and shooting the puck,” said the 22-year-old left-winger. “The more times you shoot the puck, the odds of it going in are more in your favour, so keep it pretty simple. Shoot it.”

Gauthier became the seventh player in the last 30 years to record 10 goals over a five-game span. The last player to do it was Auston Matthews (2023-24). The others were Connor McDavid (2022-23), Mika Zibanejad (2019-20), Patrik Laine (2018-19), Filip Forsberg (2016-17) and Pavel Bure (2000-01).

“He just knows where to go and the puck finds him a little bit,” said Ducks coach Joel Quenneville. “He doesn’t need much of an opportunity to score, but he’s got a great shot. When he gets hot, they find a way.”

Gauthier followed up a two-goal game against Buffalo on Oct. 29 with a hat trick at home against Ottawa last Sunday. He put up another three-goal game in Vancouver on Tuesday as the Ducks opened a Western Canada road trip.

He also scored on Thursday in Edmonton. After notching 41 goals in his sophomore season a year ago, Gauthier has 12 goals this season in 16 games.

“I’m not really surprised,” said teammate Leo Carlsson. “He’s just a goal-scoring machine. Every time he gets in those opportunities, he’s going to score.”

Down 3-2 after 40 minutes, Carlsson tied it 55 seconds into the third on the power play.

It remained that way until Gauthier scored the winning goal with 1:34 left in the period on a one-timer from the top of the faceoff circle. He was set up with a cross-ice pass by Mikael Granlund.

“They changed and Jackson (Lacombe) made a great heads-up play to give us an odd-man rush,’ Gauthier said. “(Beckett Sennecke) made a nice pass to draw some coverage and (Granlund) had the seam pass and made my job pretty easy.”

The Ducks have earned four straight victories with Gauthier notching the game-winner in three of them.

Anaheim, as a team, has been filling the net lately. The Ducks are the first team since Mario Lemieux and the 1991-92 Penguins to record five goals in seven consecutive games.

Keeping the puck out of the net has been the issue for Anaheim. Calgary scored three times on 11 shots for an early 3-1 lead.

Quenneville replaced goaltender Lukas Dostal with Ville Husso to begin the second period and he kept the Flames off the scoresheet the rest of the night.

“I didn’t like the way we were playing across the board. So it was one of those nights where (you say), ‘Hey, let’s go, change it up,'” said Quenneville.

Only tested 10 times, Husso’s biggest stop was a pad save to thwart Matt Coronato, who was left alone in front on a power play midway through the second.

A goal would have made it 4-1. Instead, the Ducks got a goal from Tristan Luneau 13 seconds after Calgary’s power play ended and the comeback was on.

“He came in, made two big saves for us, real big, right off the bat,” said Quenneville. “He looked square, confident, and settled.”

Several Ducks extended their scoring streaks.

Carlsson, who also had an assist, has points in seven straight games (4-11-15). LaCombe, who had an assist, has a nine-game point streak (0-13-13).

Lunueau extended his point streak to seven games (3-7-10). Sennecke, who had two assists, has nine points (2-7-9) over his last three games.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2026.

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CALGARY – Cutter Gauthier extended his goal streak to five games with the game-winner on Friday night as the Anaheim Ducks came back for a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames.

Jeff Malott, Tristan Luneau, Leo Carlsson and Nikita Nesterenko, into an empty net, also scored for Anaheim (9-7-1), which has won four straight. Beckett Sennecke and Mikael Granlund had two assists each.

William Stromgren, Joel Hanley and Joel Farabee scored for Calgary (7-9-1). Morgan Frost and Zayne Parekh each had a pair of assists as the Flames’ five-game home winning streak ended.

Goaltender Lukas Dostal got the start for Anaheim, but was chased after giving up three goals on 11 shots in the first period.

Ville Husso, who gave up seven goals in his last appearance, came on in relief and stopped all 10 shots he faced. He improved to 2-3-0.

Dustin Wolf, making his third straight start, had 24 stops and fell to 3-5-1.

The Flames took a 3-2 lead to the third period, but when Matt Coronato was sent off for delay of game 17 seconds in, Anaheim’s red-hot power play took advantage with Carlsson tying it at 0:55 with his sixth goal.

Carlsson, who also had an assist, extended his point streak to seven games.

Gauthier’s game-winner came at 18:26 as he one-timed a pass from Granlund. It was his 12th goal of the season and 10th goal of his five-game streak.

TAKEAWAYS

Ducks: Jackson LaCombe had an assist to extend his point streak to nine games (0-13-13), which is the longest in franchise history for a defenceman. He passed Scott Niedermayer (2006-07) and Oleg Tverdovsky (1999-00) on the Ducks’ all-time list.

Flames: It was Hanley’s first game since Oct. 3. He was inserted into the lineup when Kevin Bahl (lower body) was a late scratch. Joel Farabee scored in his fifth straight home game, the first to do that since Elias Lindholm scored in seven straight games at the Saddledome in 2021-22.

KEY MOMENT

Halfway through the second period with the Flames on a power play, Husso stuck out his pad to rob Matt Coronato from in close.

KEY STAT

In the past five games, Anaheim’s power play has gone 13 for 23. Ranked 23rd on the man advantage last season, the Ducks entered the night at No. 2 in the NHL.

UP NEXT

Ducks: Play host to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.

Flames: Will entertain the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2026.

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For decades, a distinctive castle overlooking Highway 97 in Peachland has served as a reminder of one of the Okanagan’s most colourful characters.

Eddy Haymour died Wednesday at the age of 96, leaving behind a remarkable story of ambition, controversy and a dream that never quite came to fruition.

For many locals, his name is synonymous with both the castle and Rattlesnake Island.

“Rattlesnake island and a bit of trouble, a lot of trouble,” said Okanagan resident Don Scramstad.

It was the island that captured Haymour’s imagination and ultimately became the focus of a decades-long dispute with the provincial government.

A Lebanese immigrant, Haymour purchased Rattlesnake Island in 1971 with plans to transform the five-acre property into a Middle Eastern-themed amusement park.
His ambitious vision caught the attention of filmmaker Greg Crompton, who produced the 2019 documentary “Eddy’s Kingdom.”
“As a filmmaker, when we were you know kicking around ideas, this one just seemed like such a compelling story to tell,” Crompton said. “So I was quite motivated personally but also as a filmmaker, I want to tell interesting stories. This is a very interesting story.”

But Haymour’s pursuit of his dream took an extraordinary turn.

His dispute with the province escalated dramatically in 1974, when he and his relatives took hostages at the Canadian embassy in Beirut.

For Crompton, it was Haymour’s unusual way of thinking that made him such a fascinating subject.
“He did all these like wild things but his rationale for it for me was maybe the most interesting part of him… was this character study of saying, “What? So, so you were wronged by the government but then you were going to get some grenades and chuck it into the legislature and and cause mayhem,” Crompton said. “Like it just, his thought process for me was maybe the most compelling.”

At the Peachland Museum, Haymour remains a prominent figure in the community’s history.

“He was zealously committed to his dream. That would be what I would say succinctly. It didn’t matter what obstacle was in his way; he pursued it to the end,” said Jeff Green, the museum’s assistant curator.

Although Haymour eventually won his legal battle with the province, his dream of developing the island never materialized.

He did, however, build his distinctive castle in Peachland, and beside it, a statue of himself pointing across the lake toward the island he had big dreams for.

“He was a visionary. He was impassioned about what he was doing,” said Tracy Janes,  a customer service agent at the museum. “Just everything about the man was larger than life.”

 

 

 

 

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government has learned from past mistakes as it sets out its ambitious aim of eliminating homelessness within 10 years.

“For decades, governments and communities have tried to address this crisis. Too often, these efforts have been inadequately resourced, poorly co-ordinated and not sustained,” he said at a press conference Friday in Winnipeg.

Carney said he chose to make Manitoba his first stop after releasing the budget Thursday, because there’s already a plan in place.

“The government of Canada, the province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg and private philanthropy in recent months have all been coming together to develop a comprehensive plan that works.”

The budget estimated about 65,000 Canadians are homeless but critics say the figure could be much higher.

The federal government said its approach includes not only building enough affordable housing but also helping the vulnerable and providing health supports to help people escape homelessness long-term.

To fund the efforts countrywide, the federal budget offers $11.2 billion to tackle homelessness over four years, starting next year, and $17.8 billion over 10 years.

The partnerships with other levels of government would see the federal government fund construction costs, while provinces and other partners cover operations.

Winnipeg gets some of that money first, with at least $1 billion in new money going toward 2,000 new housing units and construction of a Centre for Mental Health and Addictions.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said the federal money is a “huge, humungous deal” for the province.

“Some people were saying this is a generational investment. I don’t know if every generation gets an investment like this.”

As part of the deal, Manitoba is committing $84 million a year to support what Ottawa has committed to build.

Kinew said while the province hasn’t chosen a location yet for the health-care campus, he’ll be pushing to have it done within the three years Carney has set as a goal.

“We’re going to get it done right, we’re going to get it done quick,” said Kinew.

The aim to move quickly comes as the provincial NDP works toward its shorter-term timeline of ending chronic homelessness by 2031.

Faster progress is possible because of unprecedented co-ordination among all levels of government, including Indigenous leaders along with other partners, he said.

“It’s the first time in our country’s history where every level of government has come together to tackle homelessness, including First Nations and Metis governments,” said Kinew.

“This is a fundamental step to succeed.”

The event Friday was held under the latticework of rafters at Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn, the former Hudson Bay store in the city being transformed into an Indigenous hub of housing and other services by the Southern Chiefs’ Organization.

Jerry Daniels, the organization’s grand chief, said he’s not sure what new housing funding will come their way, but that the announcement was welcome.

“I think it’s good for the people of Winnipeg,” Daniels said.

“We’re very hopeful for the people who are living on the street, and who are experiencing homelessness, going through addictions and experiencing mental health challenges.”

Jennifer Moore Rattray, CEO of End Homelessness Winnipeg, said she was excited by the investments.

“We have a real opportunity in Winnipeg, in Manitoba and in Canada to actually end homelessness.”

She said there’s already tremendous co-ordination between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations in the city and the province to reduce homelessness. What they haven’t had before was enough funding.

“We know what works in community. We have been doing it for years,” said Rattray.

“Now we actually have the investment.”

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Health Canada is warning consumers not to use unauthorized peptides after lab testing found bacteria in products sold online.

In Canada, injectable peptides are generally regulated as prescription drugs, which are advised to be used under the care of a licensed healthcare professional.

The health agency said it seized more than 11,400 vials of the drugs from Shanghai ERP Peptide Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (ERP Peptide) as well as two online retailers that sold ERP Peptide products.

During testing of the product, Health Canada said it found three different bacteria that could be harmful to humans.

Unauthorized products sold by ERP Peptide include Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, MOTS-C, NAD+, Retatrutide, Tesamorelin and Tirzepatide.

“Selling unauthorized drug products is illegal. Unauthorized products have not been assessed for safety, efficacy, and quality by Health Canada. They have not been demonstrated, through scientific trials, to provide the health benefits that they claim,” Health Canada said.

“While unauthorized peptides are often promoted for weight loss, muscle growth, anti-aging, or wellness, they may expose you to significant and unpredictable health risks.”

Those risks can include hormonal imbalance, mood swings, blood sugar imbalance, liver or kidney damage, blood clots, and growth of cancerous tumours, the health agency said.

Unauthorized drugs are also not tested for safety, quality, or sterility, it added. As a result, products may contain too little or too much of the active ingredient, use dangerous or unknown ingredients, lead to allergic reactions or medical interactions, or contain solvents, heavy metals, particles of glass and plastic, or microbials.

Health Canada said it has requested ERP Peptide to immediately stop selling illegal products into Canada and is working with the Canada Border Services Agency to stop unauthorized shipments from entering the country.

The agency is encouraging consumers to stop buying these products. If you have used them and develop a fever or pain and swelling at the injection site, Health Canada said to seek immediate medical attention.

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The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on eight Canadian businesses for allegedly helping to evade sanctions on Iran’s government.

The department says it sanctioned money services businesses in British Columbia and Ontario in co-ordination with Fintrac, Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog.

The U.S. Treasury said several of the entities being sanctioned also worked with Ryan Wedding, the alleged drug kingpin and former Canadian Olympic snowboarder.

The department names several companies based in Ontario and British Columbia, including the Million Exchange, NIA Nations Currency, Farah Exchange, Darvish Exchange and several numbered companies.

The department alleges that Wedding used several of these services to launder millions of dollars in drug money through the transfer of digital assets before he was arrested in January.

“Canada cannot be a safe haven for illicit financial facilitators that provide sanctions-evasion services to the Iranian regime and its proxies,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a news release.

“Treasury will pursue and disrupt the Iranian regime’s financial channels anywhere in the world.”

The sanctions are the latest in a series of moves by the United States to clamp down on financial transactions evading sanctions as it continues its war with Iran.

Wedding was arrested in Mexico in January this year and taken to the United States to face drug trafficking, murder and attempted murder charges.

He remains in federal custody awaiting two trials in March and October of next year.

A Mexican judge was arrested this week on allegations that he accepted a $2-million bribe in exchange for granting bail to a man accused of acting as second-in-command to Wedding.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Luis Benitez Alcantara is accused of unlawfully securing the release of Andrew Clark, a Canadian man alleged to have played a key role in a violent international drug trafficking ring.

Wedding is alleged to have ordered the murders of several people, including a witness who could testify against him in a 2024 narcotics case.
U.S. authorities have said Wedding had been on the run for years.

Wedding represented Canada in a snowboarding slalom during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Canadian and American law enforcement officials allege that after competing in the Olympics, he became deeply involved in drug trafficking.

He was convicted in the United States of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to prison in 2010. U.S. authorities have alleged that after Wedding’s release from prison, he resumed drug trafficking under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.

U.S. court documents said Wedding’s drug trafficking enterprise brought cocaine from Colombia into Mexico, then used semi-trailers to distribute the drug in the United States and Canada.

Eight people were also arrested in Canada a year ago as part of the U.S. investigation of Wedding.

— With files from Paola Loriggio in Toronto

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A B.C. tribunal ruling has denied a second penalty for a social media platform for not deleting intimate images.

Last year, the tribunal ruled that X must pay a $100,000 penalty for not deleting an intimate image after a protection order was issued requiring the social media platform to delete the image shared via an account.

But X instead blocked the image from being viewed in Canada, while leaving it available elsewhere.

It then challenged the decision, arguing that the tribunal cannot globally enforce a law created in B.C.

This week, the tribunal agreed, a second penalty was denied and the original fine is now under judicial review.

In his decision, vice-chair Eric Regehr wrote that “internet intermediaries can avoid administrative penalties if they can prove they took reasonable steps to address the distribution of unlawful intimate images on their platforms.”

Online safety advocate Carol Todd, who has been speaking out about the dangers of the internet since the death of her daughter Amanda, said she is disappointed, but not surprised by the ruling.

“Why does big tech and platforms like X get away with this, and thinking that, you know, our B.C., our legislation is nothing?” she said.

“Oh, it’s just, I get so angry.”

Experts say Canada needs stronger federal legislation to give authorities more power to hold those companies accountable.

“What we see, we’re actually moving to introduce federal legislation because what we currently have is not sufficient,” Heidi Tworek, a professor of history and public policy at the University of British Columbia, said.

“There was a change of one law to ensure that definitions of intimate images at the federal level also include synthetic images, so deepfakes. But there’s also (Bill) C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, which is working its way through Parliament, which will create a digital regulator at the federal level.”

Bill C-34 includes a ban on social media for kids under the age of 16.

The tribunal did reject X’s attempt to recover more than $100,000 in legal costs from the woman who brought the case forward.

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A Halifax-area clothing brand is feeling the impact of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States and is being forced to make changes to how it does business.

Fairechild creates outerwear from sustainable fabric made of recycled plastic bottles and produced by a German company. The small-batch operation has all its garments handcrafted at its Dartmouth, N.S., studio.

The company’s CEO, Tabitha Osler, estimates about half of Fairechild’s customer base is in the U.S.

But she says the cost of doing business with the U.S. has become too high and the company was recently hit with thousands of dollars in unexpected brokerage charges.

“We actually had to stop shipping to the States in August because we had been shipping to them using the rules that we felt were eligible on our type of product. And then just receiving all of these chargebacks of brokerage to us, probably $10,000 at least in the span of about two to three months, which we just had to absorb,” she said.

“We’ve had a pause (shipping to the United States) and we’ve been trying to figure out a way to collect duties more clearly, but also getting preferential origin for our product. So it’s been very complex, much more complex than it had been previously.”

She adds the company used to ship items through the U.S. to export elsewhere, which made “shipping costs much more manageable.” But the decision not to ship to the U.S. means sending products to Europe has now become more expensive.

“It’s just been a domino effect. And not something anyone can really do anything about, but you just start to question when it will end and how we’ll recover,” she said.

The clothing brand has also slowed down production and is relying on a federal government program to help navigate the downturn.

Osler says the company is now looking for Canadian suppliers and trying to expand its customer base in Canada and other markets.

Her experience isn’t isolated. The Canadian Apparel Federation says the current trade climate is eroding businesses’ ability to manufacture here.

“They’ll make it in China, they’ll make it in Portugal. They’ll make it in Italy, anywhere, because all those countries have much lower duties for many goods. This is absurd,” said Bob Kirke, executive director of the federation.

And Osler says she worries businesses like hers are getting closer to extinction.

“I feel like a dinosaur in the industry, like the last remaining dinosaur in Canada just marching along manufacturing here,” she said.

“But yeah, let’s keep us alive.”

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Warning: This story contains content that may be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised.

Melody Hernandez said she is devastated and emotionally distraught after witnessing a horrific and deadly knife attack on her roommate last Saturday.

“It’s really awful. I can’t sleep during the night. It keeps playing in my mind what I saw,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Hernandez said that in the first week of September, her cousin reached out to her and asked if she had a spare room for a friend named Gregoria Alilio. Alilio and the cousin worked together at Multimatic Manufacturing, an auto parts company in Markham.

Hernandez said she met with Alilio and the two discussed why she was looking for a new place to live.

“When she came here, we had a chit chat, maybe three or four hours. We are talking and then she told me that I had a boyfriend, that’s why I’m looking for a place that I can be safe. I’m looking for a place that he cannot follow me,” she said.

Hernandez said she asked if they would be safe recalling that Alilio told her “the police gave a restraining order to him already, so he cannot come close to me.”

Hernandez said Alilio acknowledged that she was concerned.

“She told me that ‘I’m scared that he’s going to kill me,” she said.

Alilio moved into the North York apartment on Oct. 17.

On Saturday around 4 p.m., Hernandez said she got a text message from the roommate who had been out all day.

Hernandez said Alilio said she had nowhere to park because a car was in her spot in the building’s parking lot.

When she tried to call her, there was no answer, so she went onto the balcony of her second-floor unit overlooking the parking lot and saw Alilio sitting in the driver’s seat of her white SUV waving her down.

Hernandez said she then noticed a man standing next to the driver’s door of Hernandez’s vehicle, which was ajar.

She said she immediately thought of the restraining order.

“I was thinking right away that is the man because there’s no man in her life, only the ex-boyfriend,” she said.

Hernandez said she ran to the parking lot where she saw the man had his hands around Alilio’s neck.

“He’s choking her. Right away, I go to help her so I go to the side of the car. What I am going to do is grab him, but what I saw was him choking her and a knife pointing on the neck,” she said.

Seconds later, she said the man released Alilio’s neck and stabbed her three times in the stomach.

“I step back. I become so scared and then I want to call 911,” said Alilio.

She said she watched as the man continued to stab Alilio who was holding her arms up over her head, in an effort to defend herself.

Hernandez said Alilio then moved to the passenger seat before she watched the man tried to slit his own throat. She said he then began stabbing himself in his stomach.

The victim’s roommate says she began yelling for help but no one was around. She also said she hung up on 911 four times because at first she couldn’t get through to a live operator and was put on hold. Phone records reveal on the fifth try, two minutes after the first call, Alilio connected to an operator who told her first responders were on the way.

When police arrived, the man were pronounced dead at the scene. Alilio was taken to hospital where she later died in what police are investigating as a case of intimate partner violence.

Police did not release the suspect’s name but multiples sources confirm to Global News his name is Reydel Del Rosario.

On Sept. 1, Del Rosario was charged with assault, assault with a weapon, uttering death threats and theft not exceeding $5,000 in relation to an incident on Aug. 31. He was also charged with assault in relation to an incident earlier this year. The alleged victim was Alilio.

Del Rosario was released on his own recognizance that day with a number of conditions including he not be within 500 metres of Alilio, nor have any contact with her.

Alilio’s roommate says she wished she could have stopped the attack and is angry.

“She told me he was really obsessed with her. What kind of person is going to kill a person that you love? If you love someone, let them go.” said Hernandez.

“Why you need to kill her and then kill yourself, I’m so mad at him.”

If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, resources are available. In case of an emergency, please call 911 for immediate help.

Are you or someone you know experiencing abuse? Visit the Department of Justice’s Victim Services Directory for a list of support services in your area.

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Canada’s 2026 budget, announced Thursday, proposes extending the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act to Jan. 1, 2029.

However, it would exempt new residential properties.

The current ban is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2027, but this proposal would extend it by two years, except when it comes to new builds.

Community planner and real estate consultant Michael Geller says the extension would benefit B.C.

“It’s something the development industry has been asking for because while the foreign buyers are not a significant segment of the market, in the past they were an important segment,” Geller said.

“And our housing markets are so weak right now; any benefit would be greatly appreciated.”

The foreign homebuyers ban was launched on Jan. 1, 2023, when the Bank of Canada was aggressively raising interest rates and as other global economic factors weighed on homebuyers.

According to Statistics Canada, non-residents made up a very small fraction of property owners in major markets like Ontario and B.C. in recent years.

Prior to the ban, non-residents in B.C. owned about 4.5 per cent of all properties in 2021, just over four per cent in 2022 and 2023, and 3.8 per cent in 2024.

Geller said that even if the ban is extended, B.C. still has a provincial sales tax of 20 per cent on foreign home buyers.

“So even if this federal ban is removed, a lot of foreign buyers are still going to be deterred by that 20 per cent tax, especially those who might be interested in buying a home to live in as a second home in British Columbia, because in addition to that tax, they would also have to pay the provincial speculation and vacancy tax,” he said.

“And if they’re in Vancouver, there’d be an additional empty home tax. And it’s these taxes which have created so much harm for the industry.”

The new BC Conservative government did not mention the foreign buyers tax or the speculation vacancy tax during the recent provincial election campaign.

Geller said if B.C. removed or modified the taxes, it would be a significant benefit.

“The more we could actually remove some of these taxes, if only for say two year period, I really believe that would spur a lot of new development and we need it,” he added.

-with files from Ariel Rabinovitch

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