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Canadian and foreign investment regulation outlook for 2013

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 10 2013

2012 proved to be a highly eventful year for foreign investment law in Canada. Although numerous foreign investments by SOEs in the Canadian energy sector

Competition Bureau sues 3 of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies for $31 million for misleading advertising promoting premium texting services

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 4 2012

On September 14, 2012, the Competition Bureau announced it had launched legal proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against three of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies (Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and Telus Corporation) and a wireless industry association (Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association CWTA) for misleading advertising under the Competition Act (the Act

Telemarketers beware

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 9 2012

If you are making a telemarketing call to a consumer, do not forget to comply with the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules established by the CRTC

Bureau challenges major telcos re premium text rich content fee disclosures: seeks $31 million plus refunds

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 28 2012

On September 14, 2012, the Commissioner of Competition (“Commissioner”) led yet another major misleading advertising action against major telcos in Canada, as well as the industry wireless teko association

Changes to foreign ownership rules applying to Canadian telecommunications companies

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 16 2012

On March 14, 2012, the Canadian government announced that it will permit foreign ownership of Canadian telecommunications companies that have less than a 10 share of the national telecommunications market

CRTC decision introduces telecommunications competition to Canada’s north

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 16 2012

In December 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissio issued a decision that will effectively introduce competition in the telecommunications sector in Canada's north

Canada lifts foreign ownership restrictions on non-dominant wireless carriers

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 16 2012

Foreign entities will be allowed to acquire full ownership of small carriers with less than a ten percent share of Canada’s wireless market under new rules announced by Industry Minister Christian Paradis on Wednesday

Businesses beware: a $10-million penalty for misleading advertising

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 31 2011

The Competition Bureau of Canada’s recent decision to impose a $10-million monetary penalty against a telecommunications company for misleading advertising has the advertising industry in a wary state

Superior Court issues partial sealing order in commissioner's case against Chatr Wireless

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 19 2011

In a recent ruling, Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice explored the principles underlying the law respecting sealing orders and its application to reviewable matters under Part VII.1 of the Competition Act

Criminal charges laid in Canada for international telemarketing fraud

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 28 2011

On September 22, 2011, the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) announced that charges had been laid against five individuals and four Montreal-based companies involved in an allegedly fraudulent telemarketing operation

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