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Steve Szentesi & Tyson Hallan
On August 27, 2013, Facebook announced that it will now be easier for businesses to create and administer promotions (i.e., contests) on the world’s leading social-networking site. In making the announcement, Facebook said: “We’ve updated our Pages Terms in order to make it easier for businesses of all sizes to create and administer promotions on Facebook.”
September 12, 2013
On September 9, 2013, the Canadian Competition Tribunal issued the public version of its reasons dismissing the Competition Bureau’s price maintenance challenge against Visa and MasterCard.
September 12, 2013
Earlier this week, the Canadian Competition Bureau announced that it was launching a public consultation for suggestions as to where it should intervene (i.e., advocate) for more competition in key Canadian markets.
August 26, 2013
The Fraser Institute has published a new report on wireless and competition in Canada, authored by Steven Globerman, entitled An Assessment of Spectrum Auction Rules and Competition Policy. Abstract:
August 21, 2013
IBC Legal Conferences is holding an upcoming antitrust conference in Chicago in November.
August 20, 2013
Earlier today the Competition Bureau announced the fairly long-awaited decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (per Marrocco J.) in the Rogers Chatr misleading advertising and performance claims case (Canada (Competition Bureau) v. Chatr Wireless Inc., 2013 ONSC 5315 (Ont. Sup. Ct.)).
August 20, 2013
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot more media and other coverage of cartels in Canada. These have included recent record fines of $5 million and $30 million achieved by the Competition Bureau in two auto-parts related bid-rigging cases (see: here), the ongoing gas price-fixing case in Quebec in which three more individuals were recently sentenced and fined (see: here), commentary relating to export cartels and Canpotex/potash production and policy commentary on regulated markets (see for example the C.D. Howe’s recent report: Beer, Butter and Barristers: How Canadian Governments Put Cartels Before Consumers).
August 19, 2013
As I said in some earlier posts, I had taken a bit of a summer hiatus from my blogs for a few weeks. Given that summer is edging away alas, I am beginning to focus again on Canadian and international competition law developments, events and new competition, advertising and regulatory law developments. To begin to kick off the (upcoming) fall developments, this new Canada/China trade initiative being launched by UBC caught my eye today:
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
