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Google assigns the role of second fiddle to major media barons who lobbied for Trudeau's failed Online News Act

Google assigns the role of second fiddle to major media barons who lobbied for Trudeau's failed Online News Act

Tiny ad hoc collective to call the shots on how $500 million will be doled out over the next five years

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