losing the Free press...

BC Ferries told Georgia Strait to remove its boxes from ferry terminals.
Because it had signed an exclusive deal to a distribution company for the display of free publications.
This was done with out a public tender. Emma Coombe, manager of BC FerriesMartin Crilly, commissioner of BC Ferries
Contract given to Pacific Newspaper group owned by CanWest Modia Works owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp.
The decision to contract out this exclusivity contract was done without public or stakeholder consultation.
I wonder if there was some payola, either to civil servants, or politicians