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Roundup: CRTC Sets Off a Storm With CanCon Streaming Rules
Plus: Google is ending search as we know it, private equity may be eyeing IMAX and a battle over tire recycling erupts in Ontario
60 mins ago
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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Inside the Elevator Oligopoly Reshaping Canadian Cities
Kone's recently announced $34 billion (U.S.) merger with TK Elevator will raise already high costs and worsen the housing crisis
May 19
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Roundup: Dunkin Enters Canada on a Wave of Fast Food Consolidation
Plus: Ontario's ticket scalping ban is officially a mess, Spotify is raising prices and Telus is getting into home building
May 15
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The Hidden Real Estate Tactic Driving Up Grocery Prices
Restrictive real-estate contracts from Loblaws, Sobeys and others have created food deserts and are funnelling consumers to their stores
May 12
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Roundup: CRTC Smacks Down Bell For New "Handling Fee"
Plus: Competition Bureau challenges first deal since Rogers-Shaw and uniform rental merger draws attention in U.S. and Canada
May 8
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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The Competition Act Turns 40: What Canada Has Right – and Wrong
Enforcement has been inconsistent and "antitrust hipsters" have too much influence now, says the law's chief architect Lawson Hunter
May 5
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37:15
Roundup: Is Mark Carney Getting Serious About Competition?
Plus: Manitoba goes to war with social media and Sobeys, surveillance pricing goes mainstream and Quebec ski resorts look to merge
May 1
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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April 2026
Rogers Becomes a Tire Fire Through Customer Complaints and Job Cuts
Explosion in ombudsman issues plus employee and capital reductions puts spotlight on federal government's "legally binding" merger commitments
Apr 29
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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Big Tech is "Trying To Gentrify Music"
Cadence Weapon, aka Edmonton's former poet laureate Rollie Pemberton, takes aim at Spotify, Live Nation and other culture controllers with a new album…
Apr 28
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Cadence Weapon
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Roundup: CRTC Puts An 'End' To Internet Competition
Plus: Indie theatres urge Competition Bureau action on Paramount-Warner Bros. and scalping for profit is now illegal in Ontario
Apr 24
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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The Man Who Sued Google
Alexander Martin speaks for the first time about how his denied monopoly complaint sets the table for cases against Live Nation and Apple
Apr 20
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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37:31
Do Not Pass Go Trailer
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Apr 18
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Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak
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