Category Archives: Compliance

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 »

Canadian Commissioner of Competition Talks Compliance Programs

Canada’s (relatively new now) Commissioner is on the road at the moment, having delivered remarks yesterday in India.  In a short but focused speech in Kashipur India, the Commissioner focused quite a bit on the history of Canadian competition law, the importance of competition 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 »

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 »

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 »