Sentences with phrase «canadian businesses and consumers»

The Competition Bureau, as an independent law enforcement agency, ensures that Canadian businesses and consumers prosper in a competitive and innovative marketplace.

Cyber security — In 2015, our Council helped lay the foundations of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX), an independent, not - for - profit organization that helps Canadian businesses and consumers detect and mitigate cyber attacks.

There were no bailouts, no bank failures and we continued to lend to Canadian businesses and consumers throughout the crisis.

Not exact matches

And while the iMirror is the kind of product that feeds directly into consumers» current assumptions of what IoT technology looks like, there are plenty of Canadian companies finding business applications that consumers will hardly notice.

These are four very real issues for Canadian businesses and Canadian consumers, making the iPod tax far from a manufactured controversy.

At Toronto's Eaton Centre on a busy Friday afternoon, outlets for Bell, Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) and Telus are bustling with twitchy - thumbed consumers eyeing the multitude of mobile options.

In the world of Canadian tech startups, which tend to build dull business - to - business products and services, Shop.ca stood out when it launched in 2012 — boldly eschewing the enterprise crowd for everyday consumers.

Nilam Ganenthiran, Toronto - based vice-president of business development and strategy at Instacart, says the Canadian grocery shopper now looks much like the American consumer did when the company debuted, in 2012: increasingly comfortable with online ordering, and willing to trust people hired to fulfil a grocery order.

The same survey also reported that consumers would stop purchasing from a company with irresponsible business practices; and I don't think the results are simply because us Canadians are so nice, eh.

«This measure represents real potential savings for hardworking Canadian families and our Government strongly encourages businesses to fully pass these savings onto consumers.»

Not only does Asia offer a new market and consumer base, but a growing entrepreneurial support network in these countries offer the infrastructure for Canadian companies to dock, learn and collaborate with new, inventive small businesses in the region.

While this was a missed opportunity for Canadian businesses and workers, new technologies have made accessing consumers easier and faster than ever before.

The joint Regulatory Cooperation Action Plan announced this week seeks to lower costs for businesses and consumers, increase trade and investment, and help U.S. and Canadian companies compete more effectively with new, strong rivals in global markets.

«The Liberal Party of Canada strongly supports free trade, as this is how we open markets to Canadian goods and services, grow Canadian businesses, create good - paying jobs and provide choice and lower prices to Canadian consumers,» says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

After leading a trade mission with some of Canada's leading Agri - food businesses to the developing economy in November 2014, the Canadian Agri - Food Policy Institute (CAPI) published a report stating that Canadian food and beverage products are not prominent on Chinese market shelves and are not as well - known as their American / European / Australian counterparts in the Chinese consumer world.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

The event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders including consumers, business leaders, financial specialists, academics, economists, non-governmental organizations and government representatives to examine real solutions to help Canadian families tackle their financial challenges.

Canadian attorney Charles Wright of Ontario firm Siskinds LLP said, «I would expect that if there's a change in business practices Canadians would benefit, but the case filed in the U.S. is on behalf of U.S. residents and seeks refunds to U.S. residents and so that would not do anything for Canadian consumers who have already made their purchases.

«Canadians are amongst the most connected consumers around the world, and we have put Canada on the world stage today as a global leader in mobile commerce,» said David Robinson, Vice President of Emerging Business, Rogers Communications.

«A consumer code will help Canadians make more informed financial decisions today and in Canada's rapidly changing, increasingly digital financial marketplace in the future,» said Maxime Bernier, minister for small business.

Once the bank's overnight rate starts to creep up, Canadian businesses will see their borrowing rates rise as will consumers who take out car loans and mortgages.

A top performer in the July 2009 David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute report on Purchasing Carbon Offsets: A Guide for Canadian Consumers, Businesses, and Organizations, Carbonzero has led the way in setting the industry standards for measurable and verified emissions reduction offsets in Canada.

reforms that would merely encourage an adequacy ruling from the EU, but rather areas in which harmonization of international standards with Canadian privacy law would truly help consumers and businesses protect information more consistently and with more certainty across jurisdictions

The Canadian Federation of Small Business, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the Restaurants Canada, the Canadian Franchise Association and others such as the Fraser Institute fear that the workers the government is trying to help will be negatively impacted because small business will have to adjust by reducing hours of work, layoffs, less hiring and increasing cost to goods and services to consumers; some going so far asBusiness, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the Restaurants Canada, the Canadian Franchise Association and others such as the Fraser Institute fear that the workers the government is trying to help will be negatively impacted because small business will have to adjust by reducing hours of work, layoffs, less hiring and increasing cost to goods and services to consumers; some going so far asbusiness will have to adjust by reducing hours of work, layoffs, less hiring and increasing cost to goods and services to consumers; some going so far as saying:

Will the CETA offer a framework to help Canadian consumers dealing with European businesses and vice-versa?

RK: The Act is in place to protect Canadian consumers and businesses and lead to a safer, more secure online environment.

The holiday shopping season is a boon to Canadian businesses, but can be a time of mental and economic pressure for consumers.

Here's a great career «success story» of one lawyer - Denise Lash of Canadian legal powerhouse Miller Thomson LLP - who leveraged her expertise in a fairly esoteric and dry practice area - condominium law - into a thriving media business - MondoCondo Media Group Inc. - that teaches consumers about condominium ownership and helps developers and condo - related vendors market to condo buyers.

Mr. Pearson is an active member of the American Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Association of Business Trial Lawyers and a Practitioner of Foreign Law in British Columbia, Canada.

The private right of action was meant to come into effect on July 1, 2017, but the government has suspended the implementation of this section to give a parliamentary committee more time to review the legislation and determine the best course of action to balance the protection of Canadian consumers against minimizing extra costs and unintended breaches by business owners.

The Ipsos Reid survey conducted for lawyers.com, an online legal resource centre from LexisNexis Canada that helps consumers and small businesses find lawyers and legal information, reveals that 48 per cent of Canadians have lived with a partner to whom they were not married.

There is a role for the Competition Bureau of Canada, and that is to ensure that big business isn't conspiring to take advantage of Canadian consumers, and that is the essence of their mandate.

The highly educated Canadian Consumer have failed to accept the discount business model forcing them to continually reduce their fees to try and compete.

The Competition Bureau has developed a range of tools to help Canadian consumers and businesses learn about anti-competitive conduct.

The Competition Bureau has developed multimedia tools to introduce specific topics to Canadian consumers and businesses.

The Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) gave the award to the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Business Services the registration system, said to be the first of its kind in the world.

«While some may take the position that CREA's «three pillars» of MLS operate as a barrier to entry for some business models, they have historically been intended to ensure that a high standard of service to consumers is provided by Canadian Realtors, and perhaps more importantly aiming to ensure that Realtors» professional agency obligations are fulfilled,» says Szentesi, a Vancouver - based lawyer who has previously provided legal counsel for CREA.

Respected Edmonton real estate agent comments about the Competition Bureau beating up on 96,000 hard working Canadians who have, by their own free wills, chosen to belong to a particular business association that protects and promotes buyer and seller interests and enables informed consumer decision making.

In case you missed the headlines earlier this week, after a two - year investigation into Canada's real estate brokerage industry, the Competition Bureau concluded that Multiple Listing Service (MLS) rules established by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) restrict consumer choice and limit the scope of alternative business models.