Art auction record. Legal pot: economic myth.

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• There has been extensive distribution of a Canadian Press story quoting Anne Whitelaw, associate dean of research of and associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, ahead of Wednesday's auction of the 1926 painting, 'Mountain Forms', by Group of Seven impressionist Lawren Harris. The painting ultimately sold for a Canadian art auction record of $9.5-million, with the buyer's premium bringing the final price to $11.2-million: Winnipeg Free Press, Simcoe.com, DurhamRegion.com, Inside Halton, Norfolk News, Cambridge Times, My Kawartha, Inside Toronto, Sachem.ca, Orangeville Banner, Guelph Mercury Tribune, Kitchener Post, St.Thomas/Elgin Weekly News,Our Perth.
• There is wide circulation of an opinion piece from the Montreal Gazette, by Ian Irvine, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who writes about what he deems the 'economic myth' of a tax revenue bonanza from an eventual legalization of marijuana in Canada: The Kingston Whig-Standard, London Free Press, Standard Freeholder, Timmins Press, Niagara Falls Review, St. Catharines Standard, The Sudbury Star, Welland Tribune, The Peterborough Examiner, St.Thomas Times Journal, Orillia Packet, Brantford Expositor, Owen Sound Times, The Observer, The Daily Observer, Chatham Daily News, Nugget.

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