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Wanda Robson, activist sister of Viola Desmond, dies in Nova Scotia at 95

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Wanda Robson, sister of Viola Desmond, holds the new $10 bank note featuring Desmond during a press conference in Halifax on Thursday, March 8, 2018. A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond's portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Darren Calabrese)