August 21, 2013
IBC Legal Conferences is holding an upcoming antitrust conference in Chicago in November.
August 20, 2013
Earlier today the Competition Bureau announced the fairly long-awaited decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (per Marrocco J.) in the Rogers Chatr misleading advertising and performance claims case (Canada (Competition Bureau) v. Chatr Wireless Inc., 2013 ONSC 5315 (Ont. Sup. Ct.)).
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).
August 19, 2013
As I said in some earlier posts, I had taken a bit of a summer hiatus from my blogs for a few weeks. Given that summer is edging away alas, I am beginning to focus again on Canadian and international competition law developments, events and new competition, advertising and regulatory law developments. To begin to kick off the (upcoming) fall developments, this new Canada/China trade initiative being launched by UBC caught my eye today:
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I’ve been doing more social media contests lately (i.e., Facebook and Twitter contests). If anything, it’s been another reminder that “one size fits all” does not work for contest rules using social media. In this regard, one of the first questions I typically ask clients operating promotional contests in Canada, even before what their promotion is all about, is how they plan to market it (e.g., retail outlets, packaging, web, radio/tv or what is invariably the answer – web plus social media – Facebook and Twitter).
July 28, 2013
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I’ve taken a bit of a summer hiatus from my blogs, not so much to go fishing (I wish) or anything quite so summery but rather since things have been oddly busy around here for summer. Despite the fairly hectic pace I couldn’t resist a short comment on a fishing contest case that went wrong (or perhaps more accurately may go right if this fisherman has his way).
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.
July 16, 2013
Two competition law cases caught my eye this morning in my daily media sweep involving trade associations – one with allegations of price-fixing against German flour mills and the other with a challenge by the Irish competition authority for an alleged boycott by Irish physicians.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
