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June 13, 2014

The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy has published a critical new paper on the Federal Government’s revised guidelines for investments in Canada by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the oil sands entitled The Impact of Foreign Investment Restrictions on the Stock Returns of Oil Sands Companies (Eugene Beaulieu & Matthew M. Saunders authors).

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June 12, 2014

The National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association has published its Spring 2014 edition of the Canadian Competition Law Review.

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June 12, 2014

The American Bar Association has recently published a second edition of its book Joint Ventures: Antitrust Analysis of Collaborations Among Competitors (see: here).

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June 12, 2014

Several days ago I posted the first of a series of short notes discussing some of the more interesting, frequent and important competition and advertising law questions I’ve received over the past few years (for the first post see: here).

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June 11, 2014

The battle between ride-sharing apps and conventional taxis in cities around the world has been escalating for months.

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June 11, 2014

A new Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) report caught my eye discussing whether Canada’s Internet privacy policies are overbroad and overshadow other important rights and principles, such as free expression, competition and economic growth: Finding the Balance on Digital Privacy: Toward a New Canadian Model for Data Protection in the 21st Century (authored by Solveig Singleton).

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June 10, 2014

I’ve been blogging on competition and advertising law topics for quite a few years now – about six or seven years or so by my count – and written on a great many topics over those years. I blog on competition and advertising law for several reasons, including because I continue to find competition law related topics very interesting and, as a citizen, I think it is important to help maintain and increase the awareness of competition law and policy topics in our economy.

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June 8, 2014

I recently heard someone say that deciding to become a lawyer was a little like deciding to do homework for a living. There is certainly some truth to that.

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