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		Waterluvian 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease I wonder if this is largely a function of geography and population. Do we see similar strange things in countries like Australia, Sweden, etc.? Kind of like a small town effect at the national scale.

jacquesm 66 days ago | [–]

I think it goes back all the way to the founding days of Canada, essentially the Hudson Bay Company.

roryirvine 66 days ago | [–]

Sweden has a fair amount of it - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget and (formerly) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoteket as examples.

jamesblonde 66 days ago | [–]

And the Wallenberg family.

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