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You may not have noticed — the dutiful "PBS NewsHour" devoted only three sentences to it 12 minutes into its broadcast, The New York Times buried it at the bottom of page A12, and The Boston Globe ignored it completely — but the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada held a video meeting the other day.
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