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Category Archives: Competition Bureau
Competition Bureau Announces First New Advocacy Initiative: Self-regulated Professions (Pharmacist Inducements in Alberta): Patient Care v. Competitive Markets
On September 10th, the Canadian Competition Bureau announced a public consultation for suggestions where it should intervene in regulated markets (i.e., where the Bureau does not have direct enforcement powers given the existence of legislation or regulations sanctioning conduct that would otherwise violate the Competition … Read the rest of this entry »
No Happy Holidays for Deceptive Telemarketer – Pleads Guilty to Deceptive Telemarketing, Nine Months Imprisonment
Yesterday the Competition Bureau announced that a Quebec telemarketer has pleaded guilty to deceptive telemarketing under the Competition Act and fraud under the Criminal Code and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment. According to the Bureau, this particular telemarketing operation had been promoting “government grants” … Read the rest of this entry »
New Publications: Canadian ASC Issues New Consumer Advertising Report
Canada’s national not-for-profit advertising self-regulatory body Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) has released a new report on Canadian consumers’ views on advertising, entitled 2013 Consumer Perspectives on Advertising. Top of the list of advertising annoyances for Canadian consumers?: misleading advertising (significantly more than other issues, such … Read the rest of this entry »
New Publications: Canadian Competition Bureau Freshens Up Its Little Black Book of Scams
Looking for a (perhaps slightly dark) entertaining read about popular scams? On November 1st the Canadian Competition Bureau updated its Little Black Book of Scams. This apparently very popular Bureau publication, first adopted by the Bureau from the Australian ACCC’s similar publication, includes discussions of … Read the rest of this entry »
New Canadian Contest Rules & Forms – Facebook “Like” Contests
Contests continue to be a popular and engaging way to promote brands, events, product launches and other things. Whether random draw contest, consumer generated promotion or other type, promotional contests are great for buzz, traffic and attention. Based on continued demand I’m pleased to offer … Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Gets Court Order to Stop Allegedly Canada-based Fraudulent “Yellow Pages” Directory Scheme
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has obtained a federal court order to temporarily halt the operations and freeze the assets of an alleged fraudulent Montreal-based “Yellow Pages” business directory scheme. In making the announcement, the FTC said: “Hiding behind borders to … Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 Canadian Contest (Sweepstake) Law Questions – Part II
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 »
Top 10 Canadian Contest (Sweepstake) Law Questions – Part I
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 »
