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If you bought packaged bread in Canada sometime between 2001 and 2021, you may be entitled to a slice of a new, $500-million class-action lawsuit against Loblaw and Weston. Here’s what to know. What was the bread price-fixing scandal? In 2018, the Competition Bureau of Canada released court documents alleging that senior officials at Canada’s two largest bread makers, Canada Bread and Weston Bakeries, had made a secret agreement to artificially inflate the price of bread in this country. The bureau alleged that at least $1.50 was added to the price of a loaf of bread over at least 16...