Tag Archives: Canadian

Canada’s New Anti-Spam Law (CASL): Federal Enforcement Agencies Work Out Enforcement For New Law

CANADIAN CASL (ANTI-SPAM LAW) PRECEDENTS Do you need a precedent or checklist to comply with CASL (Canadian anti-spam law)? We offer Canadian anti-spam law (CASL) precedents and checklists to help electronic marketers comply with CASL.  These include checklists and precedents for express consent requests (including … Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Competition & Advertising Law: 2013 Year in Review 1: Misleading Advertising

Steve Szentesi Kevin Wright (Davis LLP) Extract from a chapter to be published in CLEBC Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014 2013 was once again a busy year for Canadian competition and foreign investment law, administration and policy, including the June 12, 2013 … Read the rest of this entry »

Updated Overview of Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)

CANADIAN CASL (ANTI-SPAM LAW) PRECEDENTS Do you need a precedent or checklist to comply with CASL (Canadian anti-spam law)? We offer Canadian anti-spam law (CASL) precedents and checklists to help electronic marketers comply with CASL.  These include checklists and precedents for express consent requests (including … Read the rest of this entry »

Competition & Advertising Law Events: Canadian CBA Competition Law Spring Forum (Toronto): Save the Date

The Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association has announced some preliminary details for the 2014 Competition Law Spring Forum, to be held in Toronto on May 21, 2014 at the Toronto Board of Trade.  According to the CBA’s National Competition Law Section, more … 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 »

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 »