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Not much new at Bell AGM

MONTREAL – While a number of individual Bell Canada shareholders voiced their concerns Wednesday about killer capital gains taxes they would have to pay should the company be taken private, senior executives remained non-committal about what might happen to the company. BCE board chairman Richard Currie led the meeting off by making sure that discussion of the proposed buyers of the company was not on and that the company's' board has taken no decision. The strategic overview committee is looking at several options, "including but not limited to privatization," he said, acknowledging what the press releases already have said: "We...