Sentences with phrase «of federal competition»

«Without a doubt, the person who had the single most important impact on Canadian real estate over the last 25 years is Melanie Aitken, former commissioner of the federal Competition Bureau,» says Brian Martindale, a retired sales rep and prolific commenter on REMonline stories.

CREA's initial notification to members last spring that zero per cent listings were not acceptable for MLS postings had raised concerns that, by refusing to post zero per cent listings, boards could be considered in breach of the federal Competition Act.

I wonder how many mollycoddled employess of the Federal Competition Bureau would last twenty - five months?

A bully is someone like the recently departed Commissioner of the Federal Competition Bureau, Ms Melanie Aitken.

I know that this system really works, because I directed strong and outrageous thoughts toward the federal government about one Ms Melanie Aitken, a very smart, but out - of - control egomaniac (In my opinion) whilst she occupied the office of Federal Competition Commissioner, and PRESTO!

Ironically, the law school bashers seem unaware of the federal Competition Act.

Such requirements, however, came under attack with the release of the federal Competition Bureau's 2007 report on the self - regulating professions.

Not exact matches

The competition regulator has initiated Federal Court proceedings against Perth - based franchise chain Pastacup and its co-founder Stuart Bernstein for alleged breaches of the Franchising Code of Conduct.

Using a website, a YouTube video and a few posters designed to be shared over social media, the board, which represents 34,000 Greater Toronto Area realtors, portrays itself as the guardian of consumer privacy and safety in an ongoing legal fight with the federal Competition Bureau.

Now the federal competition bureau has begun legal proceedings against Rogers (owner of Canadian Business) over alleged misleading advertising that claimed the startup services suffered more dropped calls.

The initiative, which originated out of Section 8 (a) of the Small Business Act — hence its name — provides participants with access to a variety of business development services, including the opportunity to receive federal contracts on a sole - source or limited competition basis.

The onus is now on the federal government to fix the bigger issue, which is a lack of competition between big players.

The current regulators — the Federal Communications Commission's Republican majority — and many of its critics both embrace a solution that 19th - century Americans tried and dismissed: market competition.

The committee is also calling on the Liberal government to better protect the personal data of Canadians who purchase and sell products online through enhanced cybersecurity, modernize federal e-commerce legislation, and come up with ways to fuel telecom competition to prod Canadians» use of mobile devices to make online purchases and sales.

Many industries have been deregulated, competition is global and federal income tax levels are nowhere near the 40 % top marginal rate of 1976 - 77.

«There is enough concern about competition in the drug industry to have galvanized forces at the state and federal level to create specific pictures of abuse,» said Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute after hearing of the investigative demands.

Walgreens, which operates about 8,000 U.S. stores, had proposed to sell off hundreds of stores to regional rival Fred's (fred) to mollify regulators, but many media reports suggested the Federal Trade Commission was not convinced that the plan would do enough to preserve competition.

Federal regulators are set to wave through Charter Communications» $ 55 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, with a few key conditions aimed at ensuring that the emerging video streaming industry, personified by the likes of Netflix and Hulu, can provide in future what the cable market has historically lacked: competition.

The federal government sees its decision as a way of encouraging more competition with Canadian telecom «incumbents» Rogers, Bell, and TELUS.

«In concluding that Aetna's acquisition of Humana would violate federal antitrust laws, the court has protected consumers and the competition on which they rely.

Their presentations in this competition were judged by members of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee: governor Ben S. Bernanke, J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Sandra Pianalto, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Instead, the Federal Reserve's new framework is premised on the payment of interest on reserves and on ensuring sufficient competition in money markets so that the rate of interest paid on reserves is passed through to other money market rates and thus to deposit rates offered to households and firms.2

The recent clarification of the powers of the federal Commissioner of Competition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competiCompetition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competitioncompetition field.

But a competition for a job like Federal Reserve chairman always has plenty of top - notch candidates who would be perfectly capable of doing the job.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

The Justice Department will sum up its position that the deal should be blocked by the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia because it believes the merger will harm consumers and competition.

Konrad W. von Finckenstein, Q.C., is a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, and was formerly the Chair of the CRTC, a Federal Justice, and Commissioner of Competition.

Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission to Hold Workshop on Competition in Real Estate

Congress just held a hearing on the nomination of former Congressman Scott Garrett to lead the U.S. Export - Import (Ex-Im) Bank — the federal agency that helps level the playing field for American workers against aggressive foreign competition.

When questioned by Tatts» shareholder Charlie Green of Hunter Green Institutional Broking whether the falling value and performance of both Tabcorp and Tatts in recent months meant the deal should be revisited, Mr Cooke said it «would be premature to form conclusions» before legal action brought the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in the Federal Court and regulatory approvals were finalised.

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal to stay the Competition Tribunal's June 3 order, which requires TREB to, in part, stop its «anti-competitive practices» and not exclude sold and other disputed data from its virtual office website (VOW) feed.

The Competition Tribunal appeal hearing between The Commissioner of Competition and The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) began Monday in the Federal Court of Appeal with TREB once again arguing that clients» privacy rights will be breached if certain data is exposed on the Internet on virtual office websites (VOWs).

The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data — a property's purchase history — is still before the courts, a years - long litigation between the Toronto Real Estate Board, CREA and the federal competition bureau.

The use by respondents of a multilevel marketing program, which is in the nature of a lottery, is contrary to the public policy of the United States and is an unfair act and practice and an act of unfair competition within the intent and meaning of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The Constitutionality of Federal Intervention in the Marketplace: The Competition Case, Howe Research Institute Commentary 7, by S.G.M. Grange.

If this means that the Government of Canada is just to transfer money without conditions to provinces, that does not help matters much at all, because for any given level of federal spending there will still be debilitating tax competition between the provinces.

The federal government needs to do more to help Canada succeed in the face of intense global competition, and one way to start would be...

The shareholder vote will take place, though the two companies are awaiting the result of Federal Court action brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and corporate bookmaker CrownBet objecting to the deal.

To begin with, the Democrats have become the minority party not just in presidential terms but at virtually every level of electoral competition, federal, state, and local.

The Federal Court has ordered Woolworths Limited (Woolworths) to pay penalties totalling $ 9 million for contraventions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (now called the Competition and Consumer Act 2010)(the Act), following admissions made by Woolworths in proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

In a statement of claim filed on Thursday in the Federal Court, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that in early 2008 Colgate - Palmolive, PZ Cussons Australia and Unilever conspired to coordinate pricing, package sizes and product formulations when introducing ultra-concentrate detergents for popular brands including Cold Power, Radiant and Omo.

Just ask competition tsar Rod Sims, who successfully prosecuted Coles in the Federal Court for «serious, deliberate and repeated» cases of «misusing their bargaining power».

1978 — Charlie Papazian and Charlie Matzen form the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) in Boulder, Colo., with the publication of the first issue of Zymurgy magazine, announcing the new organization, publicizing the federal legalization of homebrewing and calling for entries in the first AHA National Homebrew Competition.

The public benefit test was recently considered, albeit not in a media merger context, by the Full Federal Court in ACCC v Australian Competition Tribunal [2017] FCAFC 150 (Tabcorp) where the Court applied a broad concept of public benefit consistent with the Fairfax decision in New Zealand:

Against this backdrop, the company faces a class action, is being investigated by ASIC and the competition regulator ACCC has taken legal action in the Federal Court, alleging unconscionable conduct and misleading farmers in relation to forecasting a milk price of $ 6.05 when it allegedly knew dairy commodity prices were falling globally.

The necessary level of proof required to demonstrate a proposed merger would substantially lessen competition is unclear following the Full Federal Court's decision in Metcash.

Following this opposition from the regulator, AGL instituted proceedings in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that the proposed acquisition would not infringe s 50 of the TPA, which prohibits mergers which substantially lessen competition.

In the matters M155 / 2011, M156 / 2011 and M157 / 2011 the appeal was allowed; the court set «aside the orders of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia made on 4 May 2011 and 16 May 2011 and, in their place, order that a writ of certiorari, directed to the Australian Competition Tribunal, issue to quash the Australian Competition Tribunal's determination the subject of the proceeding» and remitted the matter to teh Tribunal for determination.

The Federal Court in Brisbane has made declarations in the ACCC v Cement Australia Pty Ltd & Ors matter, finding numerous contraventions of section 45 of the then Trade Practices Act 1974, now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (the Act).

Jax Arnold at In Competition has had fun with the ACCC's latest proceedings against Australian Egg Corporation Limited, discussing the «egg - citing» news out of the Federal Court relating to the ACCC's allegations of an «Eggsplosive» cartel attempt.