October 27, 2016Related amendments to the Competition Act and PIPEDA are enforced by the Competition Bureau and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) respectively. The Competition Bureau is an indepe...
October 27, 2016CASL should not be taken lightly as, in addition to the broad application of the Act, there are considerable penalties for violations of its provisions. If you are a corporation, the CRTC will have th...
October 27, 2016CEMs, in the context of CASL, include any message sent by means of telecommunication, including text, sound, voice, and/or image message...
October 27, 2016Sending a CEM to an email obtained through a social networking web page is permissible under CASL. An email displayed on a social networking site would be considered a conspicuous publication, and CEM...
October 27, 2016It is important to understand how to properly construct a CEM that complies with the regulations outlined within CASL. The construction of CEMs that violate any of the conditions in CASL has the poten...
December 22, 2015Do you ever get annoying emails from companies you’ve never heard of? Or continuous emails from a company you once agreed to receive an email from years ago?
December 11, 2015Are you trying to use the web to reach out to as many people as you can to build your business? - Not so fast! Canada’s new anti-spam legislation (“CASL”), which came into force July 1, 2014, creates restraints on your ability to do this if you are sending commercial electronic messages (“CEM”).