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The Policy Challenges of Personalized Pricing
In most retail environments, the price is on or at the product. In a growing number of online marketplaces, the price may be in your profile. The practice known as surveillance pricing or algorithmic personalized pricing uses personal data for each potential buyer...
Manitoba Takes Sobeys to Municipal Board for Lease Relief
Unable to get one of Canada’s largest grocery chains to give up property controls included in its leases, Manitoba is taking four cases to the province’s municipal board. Each of those cases involves the lease of a Sobeys grocery store that the province says violates...
Where the Rubber Hits the Road
The 2025 Annual Report from Ontario’s motor vehicle dealer regulator describes in great detail its measures taken to improve consumer protection. The results of that organization’s annual ‘mystery shops’, however, indicate the message isn’t consistently reaching the...













