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The two companies built trading posts far west of Lake Superior and Hudson Bay, largely using the Saskatchewan River and its tributaries. The Nor'Westers were more aggressive as they travelled north to the Arctic Ocean via the Mackenzie River and west to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River. The fierce competition ended in 1821 with the ...
As a Crown corporation, IESO is owned by the government of Ontario but operates at arms-length. It is governed by a board whose directors are appointed by the provincial government, its fees and licences are set by the Ontario Energy Board and it operates independently of all participants in the electricity market.
The LCBO maintained a quasi-monopoly on the trade in alcoholic beverage sales in Ontario for nearly a century after its creation: for most of this time, LCBO stores were the only retail outlets licensed to sell alcohol in Ontario, with the notable exceptions of beer (The Beer Store had a quasi-monopoly on retailing beer during most of this ...
11. Thurn and Taxis Mail. The private company operated postal service back in the 1800s and enjoyed a monopoly on postal services. The company's dominance came to an end after Prussian victory ...
The federal Post Office Department became a Crown corporation as Canada Post Corporation in 1981, and Canada's export credit agency, Export Development Canada, was created in 1985. Perhaps the most controversial was Petro-Canada, Canada's short-lived attempt to create a national oil Crown corporation, founded in 1975.
Nova Scotia was the first Canadian adopter of responsible government. Some evidence exists of relationships between Nova Scotia pre-confederation premier Charles Tupper, who prior to Confederation was a strong supporter of the interest of trans-Canada railway companies, and negotiating with the General Mining Association, which had a de facto monopoly on mining.
The article delved deeply into Amazon's anti-competitive strategies, which consisted chiefly in undercutting competitors' prices and consequently taking losses; the company's expectation that this ...
Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs approximately 70,000 full and part-time employees. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited. [8] Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name.