Bad News for Musk, Good News for Twitter Users

Elon Musk is a talented engineer with a serious track record of innovation at PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX. But do we really want an attention-seeking sci-fi bad boy in charge of the platform where the world’s ideological struggles play out?

In this article also published in Newsweek, Stephen Maher writes that the Delaware Court of Chancery’s order on July 19 for an expedited trial to sort out the wreckage of Musk’s failed bid to buy Twitter is a positive move for the platform and its millions of users.

Canada’s competition law remains very much a product of the era in which it was enacted in 1985, nearly 40 years ago. Canada’s been lagging behind its global peers in taking the reform of competition laws seriously, but this may be about to change: the most recent federal budget gave notice of a broad consultation on the Competition Act, the cornerstone law that governs the terms of free and fair competition.

In this op-ed first published by iPolitics, Keldon Bester and Robert Fay flag three key points the government should take to heart in its pending consultation.