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		<title>Court pierces corporate veil on alter ego theory of liability</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/05/court-pierces-corporate-veil-on-alter-ego-theory-of-liability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Binetti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Litigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chan v. City Commercial Realty Group Ltd., the court &#8220;pierced the corporate veil&#8221; to hold the principals of a real estate brokerage personally liable for the debts of their corporation. The corporate defendant, City Commercial Realty Services (Canada) Ltd. (&#8220;City 1&#8221;), had initially sued the plaintiffs in respect of a real estate transaction, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MFDA panel finds that branch manager might have duty to monitor non-registrants at branch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Dekker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The self regulatory organization for mutual fund dealers, the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (&#34;MFDA&#34;), made an interesting decision on May 8, 2012 on a motion by a branch manager to strike out a regulatory proceeding arising from allegations that he failed to adequately monitor and report the wrongful activities of an insurance salesperson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual fund leveraging class action certified</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Dekker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Actions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commercial Litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Securities Litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[borrowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leveraging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money Concepts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaughnessy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In&#160; a decision released in February, Ontario Superior Court Justice J. B. Shaughnessy certified a class action against mutual fund dealer Investia Financial Services Incorporated, its franchisee, Money Concepts (Barrie), and two of its former registered salespersons, David Karas and James Stephenson, relating to allegedly improper leveraging strategies that were used in the purchase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Request to Admit served during adjournment of trial allowed by court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Binetti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debtor-Creditor and Banking Litigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the case of Sivaji v. Rajwani, [2011] O.J. No. 6270, 108 O.R. (3d) 478, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice allowed a Request to Admit to be served during a long adjournment of the trial. Justice A.D. Grace found that there is no inviolate rule that service of a Request to Admit has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court of Canada sets the rules on when Canadian courts have jurisdiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Dekker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Litigation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Club Resorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conrad Black]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, Canada&#39;s Supreme Court released a trilogy of long-awaited decisions in which it set universal rules on when courts across Canada can properly take jurisdiction over claims against foreign defendants. The first two cases, Club Resorts Ltd. v. Van Breda et al. and Club Resorts Ltd. v. Charron et al., related to claims brought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More gas price fixing guilty pleas</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/04/more-gas-price-fixing-guilty-pleas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Osborne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Matters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two gasoline retailers and five individuals have pleaded guilty to fixing the price of gasoline in Belleville, Ontario, and Victoriaville, Quebec, the Competition Bureau announced today. Suncor Energy Products Inc. (Sunoco) pleaded guilty to fixing the price of gas in Belleville, Ontario, from May to November 2007, and was sentenced to a fine of $500,000. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance Bureau must supply data pending hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/insurance-bureau-must-supply-data-pending-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/insurance-bureau-must-supply-data-pending-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Osborne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Anti-Competitive Conduct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competition Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competition Tribunal Litigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Insurance Bureau of Canada must continue to supply the Used Car Dealers Association of Ontario with claims data pending the hearing of UCDA&#39;s application for a permanent order that IBC continue to supply this data, the Competition Tribunal ruled on March 16. UCDA is a trade association representing 4,500 Ontario car dealers. Its Auto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas retailers fined $2 million for price fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/gas-retailers-fined-2-million-for-price-fixing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Osborne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Tire Corporation, Mr. Gas, and Pioneer&#160;Energy&#160;LP pleaded guilty to fixing the retail price of gasoline in Kingston and Brockville from May to November&#160;2007. They were fined a total of $2 million. See the Competition Bureau press release.]]></description>
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		<title>Competition Law Review</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/competition-law-review-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/competition-law-review-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Osborne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indirect purchasers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Year in Review / The Litigator (Print Edition)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Criminal, Reviewable Matters, Mergers, Marketing Practices, Private Enforcement, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond

<b>Top Stories</b>
<ul><li>Can indirect purchasers sue for price-fixing losses?</li>
<li>Bureau reverses the charges on hidden fees</li>
<li>Court throws the book at Yellow Page business directory scam</li>
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		<title>Democracy and the rule of law</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/03/democracy-and-the-rule-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy and the rule of law are cornerstones of the Canadian constitution. These concepts have been appealed to by both sides in the dispute over the Harper government&#8217;s plan to end the Canadian Wheat Board&#8217;s monopoly, and have resulted in two conflicting court decisions. In December, a Federal Court judge said that the government&#8217;s plan [...]]]></description>
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