Archive for the 'Publications' Category
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 19, 2013
The Canadian Bar Association has issued a call for papers for the Spring 2014 edition of its Canadian Competition Law Review.
September 12, 2013
Earlier today, the OECD published a multi-year roundup of recent years’ Best Practice Roundtables on Competition Policy (see: Best Practice Roundtables on Competition Policies).
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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.”
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:
July 17, 2013
Readers of my blog will know that I do a lot of work with trade and professional associations. In this regard, a topic that perennially arises (and which I continually find interesting) relates to “information exchanges” that occur at and through associations.
June 11, 2013
Two new Investment Canada Act related reports have recently been published by The Conference Board of Canada (Green Machine: Financing Growth in the New Saskatchewan) and the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy (China’s State-Owned Enterprises: How Much Do We Know? From CNOOC to its Siblings).
June 6, 2013
The Canadian Bar Association has published a new issue of its Canadian Competition Law Review (see: here). This new issue includes articles on “The Economic Consequences and Constitutionality of Administrative Monetary Penalties for Abuse of Dominance” (G. Bishop), “The 2012 Abuse of Dominance Guidelines: An Economic Review” (M.D. Noel), “Addressing Misleading Advertising in the Canadian Telecommunications Industry: A Complex, Evolving Story” (K. Webb) and “The Impact of Chinese Competition Law on Merger Control: Over-whelming Discretion Outweighs the Spirit of the Law” (C.N.K. Chun).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
