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'The Competition Bureau is saying that they okayed this Postmedia kind of conglomerate and at the end of the day they all said that their major analysis was about economics, it wasn’t about [news],” says Liberal MP Hedy Fry. 'What are the unintended consequences?'

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
February 29, 2016

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FeatureBY MIKE LAPOINTE

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