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Get to know Bridge Canada, the online magazine of the CBF. You can access the magazine through the top menu or the red tab on the left side of this page.
What would you do, holding: ♠Q ♥AK72 ♦AJ8 ♣AK1032, after RHO's double (asking for a spade lead)? Your last bid was 3NT. Continue reading to see the bidding sequence, and go to the IBPA Article in this issue of Bridge Canada to see what happended.
The magazine contains interesting and informative articles written by Canadian experts on topics of interest to players of all levels, experts' answers and analysis to the last Great Canadian Bidding Contest, and much more.

Congratulations Congrats to Ashot Harutyunyan, top reader
for December, and winner of $100 for having the best
combined October-December score. A close 2nd was
Sheldon Spiers, who gets $50 in Xmas shopping money.
The top panelist, with a perfect score, was Dan Jaco The top panelist with a perfect score was Dan Jacob.
It is easy to enter. Continue reading to play along. Email your answers to the February problems to Neil Kimelman (editor@cbf.ca), by January 15^th. Have fun!

Get to know Bridge Canada, the online magazine of the CBF. You can access the magazine through the top menu or the red tab on the left side of this page.
What does 3♦ means in this sequence?
1♠-2♣/2♥-3♣/3♦. Find out on page 8 of this issue of Bridge Canada.
Whatever your level, you will find informative and interesting articles.

The 7th World Transnational Youth Championships are taking place August 7-14th in Salsamaggiore Terme, Italy. 7th World Youth Transnational Championships.
Congratulations to our Canadian players in the Youth Championships - Jacob Freeman (Under 26) and Darwin Li (Under 16) - both Gold medal winners! You can see their pictures on the podium in Thursday Bulletin. Darwin Li has won a second Gold medal in the U16 Open Teams. His partner was a 13 year old from India who he has played with for just one month! Bruce Zhu has won gold in the U26 teams beating Jacob Freeman's team in the final.
The 16th World Bridge Series will be taking place August 19th - September 3rd in Wroclaw, Poland. This is an Open event which means that anyone can enter. Canada will have teams in the Open, Mixed, and Womens' events. You can follow their progress on the WBF website: 16th World Bridge Series.

FINANCIAL CHALLENGES AND EFFECT ON BRIDGE CANADA As many of you have heard, your Canadian Bridge Federation is in financial distress. We would like toaccomplish so much, but sadly we do not have the funds to do so. One casualty…