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Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) will be holding a breakfast seminar on Thursday May 3, 2012 (8:30 – 10:15 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto) entitled “Tell the Truth: Honesty is Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool”, with keynote speaker Jonathan Salem.
From the ASC:
“According to Baskin, today’s consumers aren’t looking for conversations with brands as much as about brands. And what they take away from this engagement is far more important than the creative ways marketers deliver messages. Ultimately, consumers determine what is true, and smart companies have realized that every communications medium, especially peer-to-peer online conversations, can and will be used to contribute to their conclusions.
Baskin and his co-author conducted in-depth research on 50 companies to produce case histories about how truthful brands deliver sales, profits, and sustainable relationships. The bottom line is that truthful brands are the most profitable and successful, making truth telling the strategic and creative challenge of the 21st century.”
The University of British Columbia’s National Centre for Business Law will be hosting a downtown speaker series with Anthony VanDuzer, Professor of Law from the University of Ottawa, on Monday April 16, 2012 (12:30 – 1:30 – UBC Robson Square, Vancouver).
Professor VanDuzer will be discussing: The Canada-EU Negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Redefining the Role of the Provinces in the Negotiation and Implementation of International Trade Commitments.
Corporate Counsel recently published a rather interesting article by Catherine Dunn discussing the increase in the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust enforcement caseload and compliance efforts by U.S. companies (see: Antitrust Compliance is Becoming a Top Issue for U.S. Companies).
The article discusses, among other things, the fact that the DoJ’s antitrust pipeline is presently full (described as “white-hot”), cooperation between U.S. and international enforcement agencies, the complexities of cross-border investigations and a more flexible and “holistic” approach by companies to compliance, including competition/antitrust compliance.
The National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association recently posted upcoming events for its 11 Competition Law Committees, including: a Competition Bureau merger fee forum and roundtable (April 13th), Young Lawyers and Corporate Counsel Committees brownbag (“Working Effectively with In-house Counsel on Competition Files”) (April 19th), a criminal matters roundtable meeting with the Bureau (May 1st), the Competition Law Spring Forum (May 2nd), Mergers/Young Lawyers luncheon (“Merger Review Fundamentals”) and a foreign investment review conference (June 1st).
Stanford University Press will be publishing a new book in May in a new series on global competition law entitled The Global Limits of Competition Law.
From Stanford University Press:
“Over the last three decades, the field of antitrust law has grown increasingly prominent, and more than one hundred countries have enacted competition law statutes. As competition law expands to jurisdictions with very different economic, social, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, the debates over its usefulness have similarly evolved.
This book, the first in a new series on global competition law, critically assesses the importance of competition law, its development and modern practice, and the global limits that have emerged. This volume will be a key resource to both scholars and practitioners interested in antitrust, competition law, economics, business strategy, and administrative sciences.”
The Antitrust law Section of the American Bar Association recently issued a catalogue of its 2012 antitrust publications, which includes publications in the following areas: mergers, civil litigation, criminal enforcement, international antitrust, intellectual property, among others.
On March 28, 2012, the CRTC published its final Regulations under the Anti-spam Act (see: Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC)).
On March 29, 2012, the Government released its 2012 Budget (Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity: Economic Action Plan 2012). In its new Budget, the Government signals that it wants to continue to encourage foreign investment in Canada:
“Foreign investment provides significant benefits to Canada through knowledge, capital, access to new markets and the creation of high-value jobs across the country. The Government is committed to an open investment framework that encourages foreign investment in Canada as well as Canadian business investment abroad, while safeguarding Canada’s interests. The Investment Canada Act requires the review of significant foreign investments in Canada in order to ensure that the investments bring a net benefit to our country.”
In the Budget, the Government announced that it would be making targeted improvements to the administration of the Investment Canada Act “in the interests of greater transparency while preserving investor confidentiality” (although what specific steps the Government intends to make to the Investment Canada Act process is not yet clear).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
