Real Estate Wars: Canada’s Competition Tribunal Rejects Attack on Toronto Real Estate Board’s MLS
In a much-anticipated decision, the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Commissioner’s application to force The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) to relax its rules surrounding how Multiple Listing Service (MLS) information was used by real estate agents. The Tribunal also ordered the Commissioner to pay TREB’s costs. At issue in the six-week long trial held in the fall of 2012 was whether TREB’s restrictions of how much information posted by real estate agents on MLS would be visible to the public at large over the Internet was an abuse of TREB’s dominant position and thus, anti-competitive. The Commissioner objected to [...] Full article
Competition Law Review
Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Top Stories, Criminal, Class Actions & Private Actions, Mergers, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, Related Developments, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond Full article
Reliance loses bid to end abuse of dominance case
A recent Competition Tribunal decision was cold comfort for hot water heater supplier Reliance Comfort Limited Partnership. The Tribunal dismissed Reliance’s attack on the Commissioner of Competition’s pleadings. The Tribunal [...] Full article
Tim Hortons Franchisees Must Be Content With Profits from Coffee, Not Food
Tim Hortons franchisees have lost their challenge to Tim Hortons’ “Always Fresh” model that allegedly reduced the profitability of donuts, TimBits, and other food items. In Fairview Donut Inc. v. [...] Full article
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Metal merger not anti-competitive, Bureau says
Samuel, Son & Co. Limited can complete its acquisition of Wilkinson Steel and Metals Inc. [...]
Japanese auto-parts maker to pay record $30 million fine for bid-rigging
Yazaki Corporation was fined $30 million after pleading guilty to rigging bids for wire harnesses [...]
Record $5 million bid rigging fine for auto parts maker
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently ordered Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., a Japanese supplier [...]
Leon’s acquisition of The Brick not anti-competitive, Bureau says
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