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		<title>Real Estate Wars: Canada&#8217;s Competition Tribunal Rejects Attack on Toronto Real Estate Board&#8217;s MLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Binetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a much-anticipated decision, the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Commissioner&#8217;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&#8217;s costs. At issue in the six-week long trial held&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2013/04/canadas-competition-tribunal-rejects-multiple-listing-service-application-against-toronto-real-estate-board/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Competition Law Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Michael G. Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Top Stories, Criminal, Class Actions &#038; Private Actions, Mergers, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, Related Developments, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond]]></description>
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		<title>Bureau to use compulsory evidence gathering powers first, Pecman says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masiel A. Matus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Competition Bureau&#8217;s first course of action will be to seek legally binding section 11 orders for production of documents from targets of civil inquiries (other than mergers), instead of relying on voluntary production, interim Competition Commissioner John Pecman announced in a recent speech. Section 11 of the Competition Act allows the Bureau to seek&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2013/02/bureau-to-use-compulsory-evidence-gathering-powers-first-pecman-says/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More charges come down the sewer pipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masiel A. Matus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Competition Bureau has announced an additional 23 criminal charges against Kelly Sani-Vac Inc., its vice-president, and the former president of Chalifoux Sani Laurentides Inc., for bid-rigging municipal sewer services contracts in Montreal. The charges in question relate to 15 calls for tender between September 2009 and September 2011. The approximate value for the sewer&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/12/more-charges-come-down-the-sewer-pipe/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fraud and telemarketing charges laid against five individuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Michael G. Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Competition Bureau announced on December 7 that fraud charges under the Criminal Code, and misleading advertising and deceptive telemarketing charges under the Competition Act have been laid against five individuals in connection with two Montreal telemarketing operations. One of the operations promoted government grants to American citizens. The other promoted the sale of office&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/12/fraud-and-telemarketing-charges-laid-against-five-individuals/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Discoverability, continuing effects, and Competition Act limitation periods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Michael G. Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent decision, the Federal Court of Appeal left open the possibility that the discoverability principle may apply to the two-year limitation period established for private actions under section 36 of the Competition Act, but confirmed that the effects of a conspiracy are not a part of the offence and thus do not extend&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/02/discoverability-continuing-effects-and-competition-act-limitation-periods/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Law suit alleging defamation by Competition Bureau allowed to proceed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Michael G. Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario&#39;s top court recently allowed parts of a claim that the Competition Bureau defamed suspects when it an announced bid-rigging charges against them to proceed to trial. In February 2009, the Bureau announced that criminal bid-rigging charges had been laid against 14 individuals and seven companies accusing them of rigging bids for federal government contracts.&#160;<a href="http://www.thelitigator.ca/2012/02/law-suit-alleging-defamation-by-competition-bureau-allowed-to-proceed/">[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Antitrust Division&#8217;s conduct in revoking immunity &#8220;fundamentally unfair&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thelitigator.ca/2008/01/antitrust-divisions-conduct-in-revoking-immunity-fundamentally-unfair/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=antitrust-divisions-conduct-in-revoking-immunity-fundamentally-unfair</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Michael G. Osborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division has lost its fight to evict Stolt-Nielsen S.A. from its immunity program.]]></description>
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