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Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

April 8, 2019

TORONTO—I teach crisis communications to lawyers-to-be at the University of Calgary’s faculty of law, my alma mater. My students, as always, are terrific. And, for the whole term, we’ve been focusing on just one topic: LavScam. It makes sense. LavScam is the perfect fusion of a commu...

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