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The amendments to Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act that recently came into force toughens penalties for foreign corruption.

Although banks are a federal responsibility, provincial consumer protection laws mandating disclosure of contract terms apply to banks that issue credit cards.

The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal from TELUS Communications Inc. in a class action that alleges that TELUS overcharged customers by rounding up calls...

A discussion on the key aspects lawyers should be aware of, and consider when conducting a negotiation.

A Quebec Superior Court judge recently convicted three individuals of conspiring to fix gas prices in two Quebec cities.

Securities class actions have come full circle.

Directors of a corporation cannot invoke the business judgment rule to justify decisions that violate a unanimous shareholders’ agreement, the Ontario Divisional Court held recently.

It’s business as usual for class actions after Canada’s Supreme Court issued a trilogy of decisions holding that so-called indirect purchasers can sue for damages caused by price fixing, and that whether indirect purchasers suffered harm can be certified as a common issue in a class action so long as the plaintiffs demonstrate a methodology capable of showing that price fixing overcharges were passed on to the indirect purchaser level.

A landfill merger that gave the buyer a monopoly and would prevent prices from falling was saved by efficiencies amounting to one-half of one person’s annual salary, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled recently in Tervita Corp. v. Canada (Commissioner of Competition).

Ebook retailer Kobo is challenging a settlement entered into by the Competition Bureau with ebook publishers.

On May 6, 2005, former Edmonton police detective Ross Barros arranged an important meeting with detectives Kevin Brezinski and Kelly Krewenchuk. Barros had re¬cently left policing to become a private investigator.

Canada’s foreign anti-bribery law, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), makes it a serious criminal offence for Canadians and Canadian companies to bribe foreign government officials.

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. pleaded guilty to fixing navigation surcharges imposed on international air cargo shipments to and from Canada and was fined $1.5 million.

The issue is important because the Competition Act's private right of action for damages (s. 36) is limited to actual damages proven to have been suffered by the plaintiff, plus costs of the investigation and litigation.

VW recently employed a quick settlement strategy to deal with the fallout from its admission, in September 2015, that it had installed software to cheat on emissions tests on 11 million diesel powered VW and Audi vehicles.

The Supreme Court did not need to clarify the law for class actions after July 24, 2014. On that date, an Ontario legislative amendment confirmed that securities class actions no longer need leave within three years.

Double Double Dismissal The Federal Court and the B.C. Supreme Court double-teamed "buy-side" statutory conspiracy claims in a pair of quintessentially Canadian class action decisions.