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University of Ottawa scrubs proposed partnership with ‘insistent’ and ‘controlling’ Amazon

A proposed collaboration between Amazon and the University of Ottawa’s business school, focusing in part on the threat that antitrust reform poses to innovation and small businesses, broke down when the e-commerce giant became too “insistent,” “controlling” and unwilling to meet the school’s standards for academic freedom, The Logic has learned.

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