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Novus files complaint against Shaw over allegations of undercutting

VANCOUVER - Novus Entertainment is the latest independent BDU to tangle with Shaw Communications.The privately owned company said that it is “pursuing a formal complaint” to the Competition Bureau and has begun legal proceedings with BC’s Supreme Court after Shaw allegedly begun offering major discounts on its services to Novus customers in Vancouver."Shaw is abusing its dominant position in the market by offering services - which it normally makes nearly 50%margins on - at a sizeable loss as a means to destroy a local competitor," said Donna Robertson, co-president and chief legal officer of Novus, in a press release. "The millions of...