Category Archives: Advertising Law

November 4, 2012

Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards files Competition Bureau misleading advertising complaint against for-sale-by-owner firm DuProprio

In an interesting story reported by the Montreal Gazette, the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards (“QFREB”) has filed a misleading advertising complaint with the Competition Bureau against the sale-by-owner real estate firm DuProprio (see also REM’s article and real estate industry commentary: QFREB files complaint against DuProprio with the Competition … Read the rest of this entry »

October 29, 2012

Upcoming Compliance Seminars: Competition Law & REALTORS: What You Say and Do Matters

I am pleased to be delivering two upcoming competition law compliance courses (Competition Law and REALTORS®) for the members of the Kamloops (November 26th) and Victoria (November 29th) real estate boards. The compliance seminars will include overviews of Canadian competition law enforcement, the Competition Bureau, … Read the rest of this entry »

October 27, 2012

Oakville Company Found Guilty of 21 Ontario Consumer Protection Act Charges, Fined $250,000, 6 Month Jail Term

Conventional thinking has been that the most serious consumer protection enforcement tends to be under federal law (e.g., the Competition Act or Criminal Code).  That reasoning changed somewhat last week with an Oakville company being found guilty by a Newmarket Ontario court of violating the … Read the rest of this entry »

October 23, 2012

Advertising & Privacy: The Future is Here: U.S. Federal Trade Commission Publishes Facial Recognition Technologies Report

“In the 2002 film Minority Report, Steven Spielberg imagined a world in which companies use biometric technology to identify us and serve us targeted ads.  Ten years later, that vision is coming closer to reality.  Having overcome the high costs and poor accuracy that once … Read the rest of this entry »

October 21, 2012

Advertising Events: Advertising Standards Canada (ASC): The Truth About Privacy: Canada and Beyond – November (Toronto & Montreal)

Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) will be hosting two upcoming seminars on privacy in Toronto and Montreal entitled “The Truth About Privacy: Canada and Beyond”.  According to the ASC, the seminars are based on a recent McCann study on how Canadian and worldwide consumers think about … Read the rest of this entry »

October 18, 2012

Key Tips to Successfully Running Contests (Sweepstakes) in Canada

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

October 16, 2012

Key Canadian Competition Law & Advertising Compliance Rules

I have been doing quite a bit of compliance work lately, and have been seeing a wide range of compliance by companies and associations, ranging from no compliance or guidelines whatsoever to full competition law compliance programs that follow the Competition Bureau’s recommended elements in … Read the rest of this entry »

October 11, 2012

CRTC Announces Public Consultations on New Mandatory Wireless Code

In the second of two recent major announcements (the first being yesterday’s release of the CRTC’s inaugural guidelines under Canada’s impending anti-spam legislation – see: here), Canada’s telecom regulator today announced public consultations on a new mandatory wireless code.  The thrust of the new consultations appears … Read the rest of this entry »