Category Archives: Publications

November 6, 2013

New Canadian Contest Rules and Forms Available – Canadian Trip Contests

Contests continue to be a popular and engaging marketing tool for brands in many industries. Readers of this blog will know that I follow contest and sweepstakes issues and work on a lot of Canadian and North American contests and other promotions. Based on a … Read the rest of this entry »

October 25, 2013

Trade Association Compliance on New Competition Commissioner’s Radar

Canada’s new Commissioner of Competition, John Pecman, spoke in Toronto yesterday and delivered remarks that, as in recent speeches, included an emphasis on trade association compliance. In this, his second speech since becoming Commissioner, the Commissioner signaled that trade and professional associations were once again … Read the rest of this entry »

September 30, 2013

Competition Bureau Announcements: No Appeal on Credit Cards, New Confidentiality Guidelines, Annual Internet Advertising Sweep (Children’s Games & Apps)

The Canadian Bar Association’s annual Fall Competition Law Conference is quickly approaching and, as usual, this is the time of year that Competition Bureau announcements typically accelerate, coinciding with the conference. In this regard, in addition to the Bureau’s announcement last week that it had … Read the rest of this entry »

September 19, 2013

Call For Papers: Canadian Competition Law Review

The Canadian Bar Association has issued a call for papers for the Spring 2014 edition of its Canadian Competition Law Review.  From the CBA: “The Canadian Competition Law Review (formerly the Canadian Competition Record) is published twice a year by the Canadian Bar Association National … Read the rest of this entry »

September 13, 2013

Facebook Loosens Up Promotions Rules for Contests Run on Facebook

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 »

June 6, 2013

New Publications: Canadian Competition Law Review – Spring 2013

The Canadian Bar Association has published a new issue of its Canadian Competition Law Review (see: here). This new issue includes articles on “The Economic Consequences and Constitutionality of Administrative Monetary Penalties for Abuse of Dominance” (G. Bishop), “The 2012 Abuse of Dominance Guidelines: An … Read the rest of this entry »

May 6, 2013

“Babies Can Read” is Back – A Curious Advertising Tale on a Monday Afternoon

Advertising can be funny sometimes, or odd, or a bit like faith or all of these.   Let me explain what I’m talking about.  A few months ago, in perhaps one of the strangest advertising law tales I’ve seen in awhile (or ever), I wrote about … Read the rest of this entry »

April 24, 2013

New Real Estate Council of BC Advertising Rules for Licensees

Yesterday, the British Columbia Real Estate Council issued its new Report from Council Newsletter, which includes a summary of the new and updated advertising requirements for British Columbia real estate licensees (see: here).  The Council’s new newsletter states: “Each month, the Real Estate Council receives … Read the rest of this entry »