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Bell takeover rumors won’t die

NEW YORK – The speculation that someone is about to launch a takeover bid for Bell Canada, one of the country's largest enterprises, just won't go away. This time, it's a story in this morning's New York Times by the paper's Toronto-based bureau which rehashes some of the Globe and Mail's recent report about a takeover led by giant U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.The new information in the Times story says the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has approached the Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to get together for...