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Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Western Canadian business groups have launched a constitutional challenge against Ottawa's anti-greenwashing provisions, claiming they infringe on corporations' freedom of speech by quashing debate on environmental [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Western Canadian business groups have launched a constitutional challenge against Ottawa's anti-greenwashing provisions, claiming they infringe on corporations' freedom of speech by quashing debate on environmental [...]

Two years ago, Cineplex started charging some moviegoers $1.50 extra to buy a ticket online. The Competition Bureau saw deceptive marketing. The bureau for decades was an afterthought. Today it [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Jones; Staff Contentious changes to the federal Competition Act aimed at preventing corporate greenwashing leave lingering risks for investors of falling victim to false or exaggerated environmental claims, [...]

Byline: PRESTON MANNING Former leader of the Reform Party of Canada and a former leader of the Opposition Under Justin Trudeau, federal-provincial relations are at an all-time low. This is [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff The Competition Bureau has published guidance on what might constitute corporate greenwashing as it begins consultations over how it will implement Ottawa's contentious new measures aimed [...]

Byline: JANIS SARRA Professor of law emerita at Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia We have been hearing much criticism of two amendments to [...]

Byline: EMMA GRANEY; Staff An oil sands industry group that scrubbed its website of all content in response to a new federal rule requiring truth in advertising was grossly overreacting, [...]

Unanimity on Parliament Hill is a rarity. Yet in late May, for the second time in six months, the House of Commons came together to support a final swath of [...]

Byline: GRANT BISHOP Calgary-based founder of KnightFork, which builds data-driven tools for carbon pricing and the energy transition A new 'greenwashing' rule hastily crammed into the Competition Act last week [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Several Canadian oil companies and lobby groups have added disclaimers to their websites and socialmedia feeds - in one case, scrubbing all content - in response [...]

It was the type of thing big businesses in Canada has been too comfortable saying for too long: less competition is better. In mid-January, Manulife announced that most people who [...]

That groceries are expensive these days or that the grocery market is controlled by a few large companies isn't breaking news. So it verges on stating the obvious when the [...]

Byline: MATTHEW BOSWELL Commissioner of the Competition Bureau Canada has a deep history with monopolies. This dates back to even before we were a country, when the Hudson's Bay charter [...]

Byline: PAUL DE JONG President of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada I f the federal government wants to build a more competitive Canada, the place to start is with [...]

Byline: JOSHUA KRANE, MARK OPASHINOV Partners at the law firm of McMillan LLP While working to bring Canadian competition law into the 21st century, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry [...]

Byline: LEONARD WAVERMAN Formerly the dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University and the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. He is a former [...]

Byline: MICHAEL KILBY, LAWSON HUNTER Michael Kilby is partner and head of the competition and foreign investment law group at Stikeman Elliott LLP. Lawson Hunter is senior counsel at Stikeman [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR Founder of Regs to Riches, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and the executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy [...]

When the CEO of the biggest bank in Canada announced a deal to get even bigger, he faced obvious questions about competition. He said he didn't see reason for worries. [...]

Byline: KELDON BESTER Co-founder of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation Where is Paul Martin when you need him? In the late [...]

The Competition Bureau in October embarked on a study of food prices at grocery stores. As everyone knows, in this year of inflation, the bill for groceries has jumped 10 [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE; Staff Matthew Boswell, Canada's Commissioner of Competition, is all but begging for substantive changes to the federal Competition Act, and he's out for legal blood to make [...]

Byline: ERIC ATKINS; Staff Canada's competition watchdog says WestJet Airlines' proposed takeover of Sunwing Airlines and Sunwing Vacations will lead to higher airfares and fewer options for travellers. The Competition [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Call it Canada's summer of discontent. Air travel sucked. The supermarket chains were gouging. Gas prices went crazy. And then, like a sour cherry on top of [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR, DENISE HEARN Vass Bednar is the executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy in digital society program and an adjunct professor of political science. Denise [...]

Byline: SHANE DINGMAN, Staff TORONTO -- Lead THE LISTING Almost 10 years after it began investigating an alleged price-fixing scheme that affected close to $20million worth of condominium renovations, the [...]

Byline: PIERRE LORTIE Lead Senior business adviser at Dentons Canada LLP The Canadian government is faced with a very unhealthy situation in which a foreign hedge fund that holds significant [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead The head of the federal Competition Bureau says Canadian competition law needs a makeover, and that Canada should take cues from the U.S. in reforming [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR Lead Executive director of McMaster University's new master of public policy in digital society program Last Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden introduced an executive order on promoting [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR, ROBIN SHABAN Lead Vass Bednar is executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy in digital society program. Robin Shaban is a principal at Vivic Research. [...]

Byline: SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON, Staff Lead A House of Commons committee that has been looking into pay practices in Canada's grocery sector is recommending that the federal government toughen enforcement [...]

Byline: ADAM GOODMAN, PHILIPPE COUILLARD Lead Adam S. Goodman is a partner in the competition and foreign investment law group at Dentons Canada LLP. Philippe Couillard, a former premier and [...]

Byline: ROBIN SHABAN Lead Principal at Vivic Research, an economic consulting firm that provides data-driven research for policy-makers and advocates Rogers and Shaw issued a joint communique on Monday announcing [...]

Byline: ANNA PORTER Lead Why should anybody care when publishing house Penguin Random House swallows competitor Simon & Schuster? Back last November when Penguin Random House (PRH) announced its successful [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR, ROBIN SHABAN Lead Vass Bednar is executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy in digital society. Robin Shaban is principal at Vivic Research. Canada's Competition [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT ADVERTISING / WIRELESS NETWORKS Canadian consumers might want to want to bookmark dictionary.com on their iPhones after a ruling by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge in [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER Sometimes, the best theatre in town happens off the stage. Claiming conspiracy, fraud, a breach of the Competition Act and irreparable harm, Toronto theatre impresario Aubrey Dan [...]

Byline: Sheridan Scott is commissioner of the Competition Bureau Much debate has taken place recently about the need to build Canadian corporate champions to take on the world. The reasons [...]