Archive for the 'News' Category
November 7, 2013
On my daily media sweep, this new working paper by the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) caught my eye, largely based on the sheer scale of the figures. According to this new paper, 19 new price-fixing cartels involving auto parts are currently under investigation with more than 75 companies identified to date as targets or potential targets of the ongoing global antitrust probes (and $2 billion in corporate fines imposed, and rising).
Contests continue to be a popular and engaging marketing tool for brands in many industries. Readers of this blog will know that I follow contest and sweepstakes law issues and work on a lot of Canadian and North American contests and other promotions.
October 30, 2013
Canada’s Supreme Court is expected to release a long awaited indirect purchaser competition class action decision tomorrow. This case, and the tortuous (and conflicting) lower court appellate decisions before it in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, is expected to clarify the right of “indirect purchasers” to commence Competition Act class actions (i.e., consumers or other parties that have not purchased products directly from parties to a price-fixing or other cartel agreement). In advance of this important decision, commentary for and against indirect purchaser class action rights has once again begun, including today with a new C.D. Howe Institute report that advocates in favor of the right of indirect purchasers’ right to commence class actions.
October 25, 2013
Canada’s new Commissioner of Competition, John Pecman, spoke in Toronto yesterday and delivered remarks that, as in recent speeches, included an emphasis on trade association compliance. In this, his second speech since becoming Commissioner, the Commissioner signaled that trade and professional associations were once again on the Competition Bureau’s radar.
October 3, 2013
Earlier today the Competition Bureau published for public consultation a new draft Inquiries Bulletin. Canada’s new Commissioner of Competition, John Pecman, also outlined some of the Bureau’s priorities and made new announcements in remarks delivered at the annual CBA Fall Competition Law Conference in Ottawa.
October 1, 2013
The A38 Journal of International Law has issued a call for papers.
September 30, 2013
The Canadian Bar Association’s annual Fall Competition Law Conference is quickly approaching and, as usual, this is the time of year that Competition Bureau announcements typically accelerate (coinciding with the conference). In this regard, in addition to the Bureau’s announcement last week that it had updated and expanded its Immunity and Leniency FAQs, the Bureau made a number of new announcements today relating to its price maintenance case against Visa/MasterCard, confidential information policy and online children’s advertising:
September 27, 2013
The Competition Bureau and University of Ottawa’s Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) will be co-hosting a one-day workshop on October 1st to explore the areas of e-commerce and online advertising. According to the hosts, the workshop will include panel discussions on international trends and innovation in online marketing.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
