April 16th, 2013

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

W. Michael G. Osborne, Masiel A. Matus, Brigid Wilkinson, Michelle E. Booth and Michael Binetti
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP March 20th, 2013

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

David N. Vaillancourt
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP March 13th, 2013

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

Michael Binetti
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP January 10th, 2013

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