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Dec 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The darndest thing -- about 5:21 ET, these two tweets appeared on the #GoC timeline. 1/4
The links led to live-on-the-Web press releases about changes to Canada's foreign investment rules, changes that were embargoed to 5:45 pm. Officials scrambled to take them off line -- which means some people got an early look at what's up. Some didn't. 2/4
In any event, govt officials decided to move the embargo release time to 5:30 pm. But as of 5:50 pm, still nothing reposted to canada.ca/en/news.html . 3/4
Meanwhile we've got a piece up we published based on the embargoed docs. Do you follow? And why the embargo? globalnews.ca/news/9333149/c… 4/4

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