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COMMENTARY: Bell’s content plans in tatters as success at cabinet unlikely

DENIED. We’re still surprised (and most anyone who tells you they feel otherwise is pretty much full of it). I mean, many of us had suggested a full-on denial could happen – and the overall tone of the public hearing last month surely had some believing it was a possibility, but it was pretty difficult to find anyone who would actually say with any certainty before Thursday afternoon this deal would be nixed. The CRTC hasn’t really fully said “No” to a significant deal since Vidéotron tried to buy CFCF in the 1990s and Power Corporation wanted to buy Quebec...