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The September 2026 issue of Blakes Competitive Edge examines recent developments in Canadian competition and foreign investment law, including the Competition Bureau's application to block a major food industry acquisition and new national security reviews under the Investment Canada Act.

Financial pressures on rural and critical access hospitals are well documented. Losses due to low reimbursements by private insurers, significant volumes of Medicare...

Political change, regulatory reform, and geopolitical uncertainty are major preoccupations for companies and their counsel navigating international mergers. These pressures were the focus of a recent GCR Live Europe event in Brussels, where competition experts, practitioners, and other stakeholders addressed the current and future landscapes of antitrust enforcement in the EU and US.

9月8日、中国国家市場監督管理総局は「中国不正競争取締り年次報告書（2025）」を公表した。報告書によると、2025年に全国の市場監督管理部門が摘発した各種不正競争事件は1万4679件、制裁金・没収金は6億1500万元に上り、このうちインターネット上の不正競争事件は1932件だった。

The European Commission has introduced comprehensive Guidelines on Article 102 TFEU addressing abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings. These Guidelines establish a three-stage assessment framework covering market dominance determination, competitive distortion analysis, and objective justification examination. The framework provides detailed analytical approaches for various forms of exclusionary conduct including predatory pricing, margin squeeze, exclusive dealing, and self-preferencing, wh

On July 15, 2026, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released its proposed Cartel Enforcement Guidelines (the “Guidelines”) for public consultation. The Guidelines, intended to improve transparency and predictability, provide the Bureau's updated enforcement framework for sections 45 to 49 of the Competition Act (the “Act”), consolidating and modernizing guidance previously contained in the Bureau's Competitor Collaboration Guidelines and Enforcement Guidelines on wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements.