Business
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July 25, 2024
Court of Appeal upholds insurer liability for fire damage, rejecting coverage exclusion amendments
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that an insurer was liable to pay for losses caused by a fire in a vacant building as it was estopped from relying on a vacancy exclusion or policy amendments that excluded losses due to malicious acts.
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July 25, 2024
Federal Court rejects Competition Bureau's 'excessive' production order in Amazon investigation
The Federal Court has rejected an ex parte application by the Commissioner of Competition for an order that Amazon companies provide 36 data fields in regards to potentially hundreds of millions of products to establish whether Amazon turns “a blind eye” to fake reviews to enhance business.
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July 25, 2024
$500M Loblaw price-fixing settlement is Canada’s largest antitrust payout, say law firms
In what the law firms involved are calling the largest antitrust settlement in Canadian history, Loblaw Companies Ltd. and George Weston Ltd. have agreed to pay $404 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit over the companies’ involvement in a bread price-fixing scheme that stretched from 2001 to 2015.
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July 25, 2024
Court of Appeal decision underscores significance of obeying police instruction
On March 23, 2017, the Canadian Press reported that Angel McCool, then a 30-year-old Stratford woman, was charged with obstruction of police after her GMC utility vehicle was stopped on Highway 401 in Thames Centre, Ont.
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July 25, 2024
Ottawa ordered to disclose memos about CUAET immigration program targeted by Charter challenge
A novel Charter challenge — which contends that Ottawa’s expansive Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) policy for war-affected Ukrainians unfairly discriminated against Taliban-targeted Afghans who face stricter immigration requirements — is proceeding to next steps after the Federal Court rejected a bid by the federal attorney general to avoid disclosing information that sheds light on what went into devising the generous immigration policy for Ukrainians.
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July 25, 2024
An overview of Canada’s new Digital Services Tax Act
On June 20, 2024, Bill C-59 received royal assent, establishing Canada’s new Digital Services Tax Act (DST Act). However, it was stipulated, through Bill C-59, that the Act would only come into force on a date determined by order of the Governor in Council.
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July 24, 2024
Federal Court orders gas pricing firm to provide information for competition investigation
The Federal Court has ordered Kalibrate Canada, a company that provides pricing services to Canadian gas companies, to produce records and written information in relation to a Competition Bureau investigation into the impact of the company's services on prices at gas stations.
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July 24, 2024
Spirits suppliers seek court review of LCBO’s ‘contradictory’ pricing policies
Spirits Canada has announced that an “unavoidable legal challenge” has been caused due to the Liquor Control Board of Ontario's (LCBO)’s 2023 decision to “penalize suppliers for non-compliance with contradictory pricing policies.”
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July 24, 2024
CN Rail fined $8M for two 2015 derailments that caused oil spills
The Ontario Court of Justice has ordered the Canadian National Railway Company (CN Rail) to pay $8 million in relation to two 2015 derailments that caused millions of litres of crude oil to spill.
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July 24, 2024
Federal Court of Appeal upholds CRTC decision to raise telecom access rates for third-party providers
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision to raise the rates that large telecommunications companies can charge third-party service providers for access to their internet facilities and infrastructure.