Also: Ukraine cleared to get coveted Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, others
After today there’s only one remaining obstacle to Rogers’s purchase of Shaw: a decision by federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne.dismissed today by the Federal Court of Appeal
, removing another roadblock that has contributed to the two-year-long timeline of the $20-billion deal. “It would be pointless to send this case back to the competition tribunal for re-decision,” Justice David Stratas told the court. The appeal represented the Competition Bureau’s concern that the deal will hurt competition in the telecom industry. Canadians pay some of the highest mobile phone bills in the world.“I will render a decision in due course,” he said in a statement today.
Recent graft scandals in Ukraine, though small in scale, could undermine requests from Ukraine’s military for fresh donations – including tanks, artillery and ammunition – from its allies in Europe, the United States and Canada ahead of an expected large-scale Russian offensive this spring.were meant to send a signal, critics inside Ukraine note that Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov escaped unscathed despite reports by independent journalists of wrongdoing within his ministry.
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