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Canada's merger court asked the competition bureau to pay about C$13 million ($9.58 million) to Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications for the lengthy court battle after its failed attempt to block the telecom firms' C$20-billion merger.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada has a very serious oligarch problem.
New Brunswick is literally owned by one family. (There's circumstantial evidence that they're poisoning a portion of the population in New Brunswick)
Our largest national grocer is owned by one family. (They've raised prices causing inflation that's hurting the entire country)
One of our largest telecom companies? Yep. One family. (Canada has some of the most expensive telecommunications in the world)
Our mining companies commit atrocities all over the world.
Our government fights tooth and nail to ensure there's no real opposition. We've only ever had two parties elected and they do the same things, but talk differently. (If you're American, that probably sounds familiar)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Jaytreeman [email protected] have you seen the posts by @blair_fix on Canada's oligarch billionaires?

eg

"the corporate power networks owned by Canada's billionaire families"

https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix/110595839690056922

and

"10 billionaire families own more wealth than the bottom third of Canadians"

https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix/110729361763887423

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@myeyesaredim

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing