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The ‘obvious candidate’: Jeanne Pratt favoured by lawyers, academics to take over as competition commissioner

| 03/10/2026 5:37 pm EDT

The ‘obvious candidate’: Jeanne Pratt favoured by lawyers, academics to take over as competition commissioner

Acting competition commissioner Jeanne Pratt may soon have the ‘acting’ tag removed from her job title, according to leading legal scholars and competition lawyers....

Balsillie’s Centre for Digital Rights meets with OPC

telecom | 06/21/2018 4:00 pm EDT

A newly-minted data rights group spearheaded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie met with privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien in late May, according to the federal lobbying registry. The Centre for Digital Rights asked to meet with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, where the two discussed the group’s goals and its views on data privacy issues, OPC spokeswoman Tobi Cohen said in an email. “We shared perspectives on a number of privacy issues as this new group wishes to actively promote privacy rights,” Cohen said, adding the OPC regularly meets with a range of...

Matthew Boswell to head Comp Bureau in 1 year interim term

telecom | 05/30/2018 2:26 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plans

The Competition Bureau has an interim replacement for outgoing commissioner...

Competition Bureau shouldn’t compel market studies: C.D. Howe

telecom | 05/04/2017 8:34 pm EDT

Granting the Competition Bureau additional powers to compel businesses to provide information for market studies “could result in significant costs for Canadian businesses,” according to...

Regional telecom disruption on Competition Bureau’s radar: commissioner

Media | 04/05/2017 4:44 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau will be keeping an eye on how regional telecom providers can disrupt the incumbents’ hold on the market, the commissioner said Tuesday. In a speech to the...

Bell-MTS deal receives final approval, includes Xplornet in ‘surprise twist’

Media | 02/15/2017 3:07 pm EST

The introduction of Xplornet Communications Inc. into Manitoba’s wireless market was a “surprise twist” to the story of BCE Inc.’s $3.9-billion acquisition...

Competition Bureau fines Amazon $1M

Media | 01/11/2017 5:46 pm EST

Amazon.com Inc. must pay a $1-million fine over the pricing practices on its Canadian website following a Competition Bureau investigation. The bureau said in a press release Wednesday that Amazon compared its prices to a regular or list price, which “created the impression that prices for items offered on www.amazon.ca were lower than prevailing market prices.” After examining pricing practices between May 2014 and May 2016, the bureau “determined that Amazon relied on its suppliers to provide list prices without verifying that those prices were...

Competition Bureau appoints chief economist

Media | 08/22/2016 4:45 pm EDT

Paul Johnson has been named as the Competition Bureau’s leader of economic analysis, where he will play a key role in merger reviews, the competition commissioner said Monday. In a Monday press release,...

Comp Bureau approves proposed Sun Media sale

Media | 03/25/2015 2:27 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau said Wednesday it will not challenge Postmedia Network Canada Corp.’s purchase of Quebecor Inc.’s English-language Sun Media newspapers. The bureau said in a Wednesday release that the proposed acquisition is unlikely to lessen or prevent competition, citing several reasons including that Postmedia’s broadsheet...

Competition watchdog suggests ‘separation’ of incumbents’ retail, wholesale

telecom | 08/20/2014 8:03 pm EDT

Competition Commissioner John Pecman said Wednesday the CRTC should consider requiring a "vertical separation" of wholesale and retail operations at Canada’s wireless companies as part of the telecom regulator’s review of wholesale wireless competition. In a filing to the...

Competition Bureau not appealing Chatr decision

telecom | 03/24/2014 6:37 pm EDT

The federal Competition Bureau said Monday it will not appeal a court decision that hit Rogers Communications Inc. with a much lighter penalty than it had sought in relation to Rogers’ claims that its Chatr wireless service...

Incumbents’ wholesale roaming rates ‘unjust’: competition commish

telecom | 02/11/2014 4:48 pm EST

Canadian Competition Commissioner John Pecman called the roaming rates incumbent wireless firms charge new entrants “unjust” and repeated the Competition Bureau’s call for the CRTC...

Competition Bureau wants closer cooperation with CRTC

Media | 10/03/2013 9:05 pm EDT

Last month's deal for more cooperation between the Competition Bureau and the CRTC is “a first step, baby step,” Commissioner of Competition John Pecman said Thursday at a conference in Ottawa. “What really...