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APC | Organisation | The APC, or Anti-Poverty Committee, was a so-called “militant left-wing anarchist organisation” (according to their Wikipedia entry) that became famous for ransacking former Premier Gordon Campbell’s Vancouver office and getting duped by a cop posing as a journalist in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Usage | “Looks like the APC gang are up to their old tricks…”

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