Billionaire Ruby Liu has been trying to take over 25 former Hudson’s Bay store leases.

B.C. billionaire Weihong (Ruby) Liu has lost her legal battle to take over 25 former Hudson’s Bay store leases, after a months-long fight with some of Canada’s most prominent commercial landlords over the fate of those high-profile spaces in their malls.

The court decision, which was filed on Friday, means that Ms. Liu will not be able to move forward with her plan to launch a chain of department stores named after herself in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.

The contentious process included Ms. Liu accusing the landlords of discrimination and their lawyers of “ corruption ,” while the landlords raised questions about Ms. Liu’s ethics, pointed to her lack of prior experience running a retai

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