Archive for the 'Associations' Category
December 3, 2013
Canada’s national not-for-profit advertising self-regulatory body Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) has released a new report on Canadian consumers’ views on advertising, entitled 2013 Consumer Perspectives on Advertising.
November 20, 2013
The U.S. CLE provider Strafford is hosting what I think looks like quite an interesting upcoming associations and information exchange related webinar entitled: Antitrust Risks of Association-Sponsored Market Research. “Information exchanges” (via surveys, member interaction, meetings, conventions, social media, other online fora, etc.) are of course a common and ubiquitous activity for most trade and professional associations, both in Canada and internationally. Given that they can also raise competition/antitrust law risk, however, with the potential issues in Canada and the U.S. being largely the same, this upcoming webinar caught my eye.
November 15, 2013
Canada’s new Commissioner of Competition, John Pecman, delivered remarks yesterday in Toronto centered around what he has been referring to recently as the “4Cs” (the Competition Bureau’s four current areas of focus: compliance; communication; collaboration; and Canadians). As part of his remarks, as he has been doing since last fall, he once again discussed trade associations, and in particular association compliance and the importance of adopting credible and effective competition law compliance programs.
November 12, 2013
Earlier today, the ASEAN Experts Group on Competition launched a new regional ASEAN Competition Policy and Law web portal.
November 11, 2013
In one of the most interesting stories that caught my eye on my daily media sweep today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that some of the U.S. big banks are considering blocking employees from computer chat rooms, based on growing market manipulation and collusion scrutiny from regulators (see: Big Banks May Block Traders From Chat Rooms). According to the WSJ, J.P. Morgan Chase and Credit Suisse are weighing whether to disable computerized chat rooms that link traders across multiple competing banks and are used by thousands of employees globally. Other banks, including RBS, Barclays and UBS, are reported to be reviewing chat room use and guidelines for controlling and monitoring communications.
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.
September 13, 2013
The National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is holding its annual Fall Competition Law Conference from October 3-4, 2013 in Ottawa (chaired by Anita Banicevic, of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg in Toronto).
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).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
