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In some cases she works In 2016, the provincial Liberal regulations of the payday loan industry with Curator Mireille Eagan and Registrar Chris government announced they by passing legislation without any “One of the messages I’m trying to get across Batten to pull relevant pieces out of The Rooms’ were going to institute new need for further Federal intervention. is, if you’ve got eyes and feelings, you can vault, giving participants an opportunity to Regulations currently exist in all understand art,” artist and educator, Anne rules to regulate the payday take in work they might not otherwise get the other provinces in Canada, except Pickard-Vaandering said. loan industry.