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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 ...
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.
In December 2015, Cboe Canada, then the NEO Exchange, filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau alleging the TMX Group was “using its dominant market position to maintain control over the pricing of market data in the Canadian capital markets.” [29] On November 21, 2016 the Competition Bureau concluded their investigation after ...
The court ruled that Justice Kershman had erred, and it could not be determined, based solely on a Crown motion, whether or not statements made about TPG on the Government of Canada’s Competition Bureau website were defamatory. The ruling states, "The determination of that issue is better left to trial on a full factual record." [20]
The Competition Bureau investigated the purchase as a violation of the Competition Act. The Competition Tribunal held that Southam violated section 92 of the Competition Act and ordered the company to sell off one of the papers. The Tribunal found that the newspapers were not in the same market with regards to print advertising markets.
According to the Competition Bureau, the fine was the highest ever price fixing fine in Canadian history. [15] As a result of the guilty plead, Canada Bread is placed on federal government's list of "ineligible and suspended suppliers" and banned from bidding on any federal government contracts for 10 years. [16]