May 27, 2014
Earlier today, the Competition Bureau announced that a Canadian telemarketer has been sentenced, following a guilty plea, to an 18 month prison sentence in a misleading advertising and deceptive telemarketing case. According to the Bureau, the telemarketer was engaged in deceptive marketing of online business directory listings.
May 27, 2014
John Bodrug, George Addy,
Stephane Eljarrat, Gabriel Querry
(Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP – reprinted with permission)
On May 23, 2014, Nazir Karigar was sentenced to three years in prison for agreeing, in his capacity as an agent of a Canadian business, to offer bribes to Air India officials and India’s then Minister of Civil Aviation in relation to a bid for a security contract. Mr. Karigar is the first individual to be sentenced under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (“CFPOA”).
May 21, 2014
Several days ago the Competition Bureau posted new remarks by the Commissioner of Competition from the Canadian Bar Association’s 2014 Competition Law Spring Forum (one of two annual Canadian competition law conferences hosted by the CBA). See: Remarks by John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition. These new remarks are a bit of a “one stop shop” for Canadian competition law developments over the past year or two. A few highlights of the Commissioner’s remarks that caught my eye included:
May 22, 2014
I’m getting closer to being a middle-aged guy – well, closer to middle age than a young guy. As such, I remember some of those things that commercials sometimes mock middle aged guys, or older guys than me yet, for remembering. Like Pintos, vinyl records, those plastic things you used to have to put in the middle of some records to play them, printed books and typewriters.
May 11, 2014
My colleague Andrei Mincov recently published a very interesting and innovative new book on intellectual property law, entitled The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Intellectual Property.
May 8, 2014
Earlier today, the C.D. Howe Institute issued the second of two reports on the Canada/U.S. “price gap” issue: Cross-Border Price Regulation: Anti-Competition Policy? For my comments on the first report, issued two days ago see: here.
May 8, 2014
Guest post by Jarod Bona
(Bona Law PC – reprinted with permission)
Law school exams are all about issue spotting. Sure, after you spot the issue, you must describe the elements and apply them correctly. But the important skill is, in fact, issue spotting. In the real world, you can look up a claim’s elements; in fact, you should do that anyway because the law can change.
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May 7, 2014
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