Documents from axed Competition Bureau probe appear to contradict Postmedia CEO.
Bryan Carney reports on privacy, technology and freedom of information and is director of web production at The Tyee. You can follow his very occasional tweets at @bpcarney. SHARES Postmedia executive chair Paul Godfrey was the news giant’s president and CEO in 2017 when he said neither side of the newspaper swap knew that the other side planned cuts.
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A three-year criminal conspiracy investigation into the swapping and closing of newspapers by Postmedia and Torstar was quietly shelved early last month. Legal experts say the Competition Bureau, Canada’s antitrust law enforcement branch, missed a chance to hone its legal weapons against monopolistic practices when it folded its case without bringing it to the courts.
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