Contributors: Michael Osborne, Sonny Ingram, Jennifer Dyck, and Christian Farahat.

Review of all Canadian Competition Law developments over the last 12 months, plus some US and EU developments, including: Mergers, Criminal, Private Actions, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond

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• Hard time for hard core cartels
• Class action requirements loosened
• Suncor – Petro-Canada merger gets green light
• Nadeau’s feathers ruffled by Tribunal

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Contributers: Kenneth Dekker, Jennifer Dyck, Christian Farahat, Sonny Ingram, and Michael Osborne.

An update on significant commercial litigation decisions released recently in Ontario.

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Contributors: Michael Osborne, Sonny Ingram, Sandra Monardo, Michelle Booth, Adam Wygodny, and Donna Wilson.

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Canada’s new competition law
Budget 2009 includes the most significant amendments to the Competition Act in a generation:
• A new “per se” conspiracy offence makes it illegal for competitors or potential competitors to fix prices, allocate markets, or control production of a product, even if there is no effect on competition…and more…

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Contributors: Michael Osborne , Jennifer Cantwell, Sandra Monardo, Michelle Booth, Sonny Ingram, Hooman Zardarzadeh

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Ice storm
Ice supplier Arctic Glacier Inc. tried to crush its fledgling competitor, Polar Ice Express Inc. by unlawfully interfering with its economic relations, an Alberta court found…

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CONTRIBUTORS: KEN DEKKER, MICHAEL OSBORNE, MICHAEL BINETTI,ADAM WYGODNY,AND HOOMAN ZARGARZADEH

CANADA’S TOP COURT DISMISSES SHAREHOLDER CLASS ACTION AGAINST DANIER LEATHER

In October, Canada’s Supreme Court upheld the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision overturning Canada’s first-ever securities class action judgment in favour of…

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