October 5, 2021
Do you need checklists and precedents to help your company or organization comply with some of the common business-related exemptions and categories of implied consent under Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL)?
October 1, 2021
Is your company or brand planning to run a contest in Canada and needs template language to comply with Facebook’s and Instagram’s Promotion Guidelines? Our firm has developed a new Canadian contest law precedent to help: Facebook and Instagram Language For Canadian Contests.
September 22, 2021
Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL), which is one of the strictest spam law regimes in the world, applies to commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that encourage participation in a commercial activity. CEMs are defined broadly as electronic messages with a purpose to encourage participation in a commercial activity, including offering or advertising to purchase or sell products, goods, services or land.
September 17, 2021
On September 9, 2021, the C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council (Competition Council) issued a new Communiqué with recommendations for the next Canadian federal government to amend the Competition Act and other Canadian competition policy recommendations.
September 16, 2021
Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL), which is one of the strictest anti-spam law regimes in the world, applies to commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that encourage participation in a commercial activity. While CASL was passed more than seven years ago, there remain a number of common misperceptions relating to consent under CASL, including the distinction between express consent, implied consent and what kind of consent is needed to share electronic addresses with third parties.
September 15, 2021
Do you need a precedent for short rules (i.e., “mini-rules”) for running a skill-based contest/sweepstakes in Canada? Our firm offers many types of precedents/forms to operate Canadian contests/sweepstakes, including our Short Rules (Skill Contest) precedent.
September 5, 2021
Do you need checklists and precedents to help your company or organization comply with the documenting consent and scrubbing e-mail distribution list requirements under Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL)?
August 24, 2021
Practical Law Canada Competition (of which I am Lawyer Editor) has published a new Legal Update, which discusses a recent Competition Bureau (Bureau) submission to the Manitoba Securities Commission (MSC). The Update includes an overview of the Bureau’s advocacy powers under the Competition Act, R.S.C., c. C-34, summary of its submission to the MSC, and recent Bureau advocacy initiatives and implications. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
