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Most branches of the Bureau are headed by a Senior Deputy Commissioner, with directorates that fall under a Deputy Commissioner. [4]In addition to its main operations, the Competition Bureau also jointly manages the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC), in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ontario Provincial Police.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet's Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday. The Competition ...
The Competition Bureau Canada opened an investigation in 2020 to probe whether the Alphabet-owned search engine giant had engaged in practices that harm competition in Canada's online ads industry.
Earlier this month, the Facebook-parent began blocking access to news on its platforms in response to the country's recently passed Online News Act, which would force companies like Meta and ...
The Scanner Price Accuracy Code is a Canadian retail voluntary practice managed by the Retail Council of Canada and endorsed by the Competition Bureau. [1] It was introduced in June 2002 [2]: 2 as Canadian retailers were in the midst of updating their point-of-sale systems with barcode readers [1] to "foster consumer confidence" with the new systems. [3]
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC; formerly known as PhoneBusters National Call Centre) is Canada's national anti-fraud call centre and central fraud data repository. [1] It was established in January 1993 in North Bay, Ontario, and is jointly operated by the Ontario Provincial Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Competition Bureau ...
In 1985, the conservative government of Brian Mulroney replaced the Combines Investigation Act, 1923, with the Competition Act, which came into effect on June 19, 1986. [1] [7] [2] The provisions in this Act regarding civil mergers, which deal with both horizontal and vertical mergers, replaced the ineffectual Criminal Code provisions under which only a handful of cases were brought between ...
[5] [6] The Competition Act dissolved the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission and created the Competition Tribunal and the Competition Bureau. Unlike the Commission, the Competition Tribunal has no authority to investigate offenses, as investigations are now the responsibility of the Competition Bureau to carry. [4]