Archive for the 'Competition Bureau' Category
June 21, 2014
“Every business and individual has a duty to act lawfully. The Bureau operates on the assumption that all businesses and their senior management wish to comply with the law. Compliance is important for all businesses, regardless of their size, for both legal and practical reasons.
June 19, 2014
Globe Law and Business recently published a new international advertising law text entitled: International Advertising Law. Given that I work a lot in the Canadian advertising and marketing law areas, as well as the relative dearth of advertising and marketing law texts generally (both in Canada and internationally), I thought this book was a welcome addition to the field. It includes, among other things, a survey of the advertising laws in leading jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, China, the United Kingdom and United States, among a number of other key and emerging jurisdictions.
June 16, 2014
Canada’s federal competition law regulator, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”), continues (at least as far as I can tell) to increase its “transparency” efforts posting more materials than perhaps was the case in the past. Earlier today, the Bureau announced two new publications – a Canadian competition law video (see: here) and its contribution to a new OECD Roundtable on competition and airlines (see: Competition Bureau Submission on OECD Roundtable on Airlines).
June 13, 2014
For the past little while I’ve been seeing more cases and articles related to advertising challenges based on misleading (or allegedly misleading) first impressions – that is competitor or consumer challenges based on what looks like the real deal, but may be a bit of image or headline claim sleight of hand.
June 12, 2014
Several days ago I posted the first of a series of short notes discussing some of the more interesting, frequent and important competition and advertising law questions I’ve received over the past few years (for the first post see: here).
June 11, 2014
A new Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) report caught my eye discussing whether Canada’s Internet privacy policies are overbroad and overshadow other important rights and principles, such as free expression, competition and economic growth: Finding the Balance on Digital Privacy: Toward a New Canadian Model for Data Protection in the 21st Century (authored by Solveig Singleton).
June 10, 2014
I’ve been blogging on competition and advertising law topics for quite a few years now – about six or seven years or so by my count – and written on a great many topics over those years. I blog on competition and advertising law for several reasons, including because I continue to find competition law related topics very interesting and, as a citizen, I think it is important to help maintain and increase the awareness of competition law and policy topics in our economy.
June 3, 2014
Recently I had the opportunity to chat with some competition law colleagues about some of the ways Canadian and international competition/antitrust agencies were increasingly using social media, video and other digital channels for compliance and outreach. After this conversation, I became a bit curious about just what some of the leading competition agencies were up to and so did a quick sweep earlier today to take a look.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
