Tag: Canada
Canada’s Antitrust Watchdog Fines Keurig Over Recycling Claims
Canada's Competition Bureau stated that Keurig Canada will pay a CA$3 million penalty for making false or misleading claims that its single-use K-Cup pods...
Canadian Competition Watchdog Appoints New Chief Economist
Canada's competition commission announced the appointment of Dr. Lilla D. Csorgo as the Competition Bureau’s new TD MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics.
Dr. Csorgo will act as...
Mexican Watchdog OKs $31B Mexico-Canada-US Railroad Deal
Mexican regulators have approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion deal to acquire Kansas City Southern, which could create a railroad linking Mexico, Canada and the...
Canada’s Brookfield To Buy Scientific Games’ For $6.05B
Scientific Games announced on Wednesday, October 27, it would sell its global lottery business to Canadian investment company Brookfield for US$6.05 billion, reported Reuters.
The...
Uber Considers Gig Worker Benefits Model In Canada
Uber Technologies on Monday, August 30, proposed a plan for a flexible benefits fund for app-based ride-hail and food delivery drivers in Canada under...
Canadian Conservatives Vow To Crack Down On Food Price-Fixing
Canada's Conservatives are vowing to cut down on price-fixing in grocery stores in Canada except in the area of supply management, reported The Western...
Canadian Regulator Gets Court Order To Advance Rogers-Shaw Probe
Canada’s antitrust agency says it has received court orders to help its review of Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.
The Competition Bureau said...
Canada Reviews Aon-Willis Deal
Canada’s competition regulator is reviewing the proposed merger of global brokerages Aon and Willis Towers Watson, but the federal government is not saying whether...
Kansas City Southern Mega-Merger Faces Antitrust Scrutiny
Pushback from the US Justice Department has complicated the proposed railroad mega-merger between Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern, reported Bloomberg.
Canadian Pacific agreed last...
Pre-merger Notification Transaction-Size Threshold Decreased In Canada
The Competition Bureau announced on Tuesday, February 16, that the 2021 pre-merger notification threshold relating to transaction size will decrease to CA$93 million from...
