Worried about a future takeover, Maple Leaf Foods is trying to implement a shareholder's rights program:

"If triggered, the plan would entitle a rights holder, other than the acquiring person and related persons, to purchase voting common shares or non-voting common shares at a 50 per cent discount to the market price at the time"

Some people on this forum suggest that NOT is trying to "Fly under the radar to avoid becoming a takeover target by not releasing news". The approach that Maple Leaf is taking seems to genuinley protect minority shareholders against a takeover.... I'm not sure that is really what NOT wants

http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/30062010/2/biz-finance-teachers-won-t-swallow-maple-leaf-s-poison.html