Competition Bureau says Quebec real estate board violated abuse of dominance rules - BNN Bloomberg
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
2
Lean bands spanned
2
Widest spread
Center-Left → Center
Verdict
Verified
B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER
Where the 2 outlets covering this sit
Center-Left
50%
Center
50%
Business framing
Center-Left majority
2-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
0.00 · CENTER
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.000 · CENTER
Ensemble
0.000 · CENTER
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER
avg -0.185
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7-day bias trend
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Excerpt from BNN Bloomberg
The Competition Bureau says it has reached a settlement with Quebec’s real estate industry association to loosen data-sharing restrictions that violated the Competition Act.
The watchdog says the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers and its subsidiary, Société Centris, broke abuse of dominance rules by refusing to provide its members with a real estate data feed, while also restricting how such data could be used.
The bureau says lack of access to that data was likely meant to “impede innovation and limit competition in the real estate brokerage services market.”…
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