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Ontario ban on door-to-door sales in effect as of March 1st
March 6, 2018 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., Managing Editor Accounts payable and receivable, Business and Legal Issues, Competition, Corporate Administration, Finance and Accounting, Financial Compliance / Planning / Management, Fraud and Corruption, Leadership and Management, Records Management and Retention, Sales, Marketing and Operations

Door-to-door sales contracts have been among the top complaints received by the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Starting March 1, 2018, Ontario has banned unsolicited, door-to-door sales of certain household appliances to better protect consumers from aggressive and misleading contracting at home. This will bring about some changes for some companies business model and marketing strategies.
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Are you ready for the anti-spam legislation? Part 1
September 23, 2013 Maanit Zemel Anti-spam, Do-not-Call, Business and Legal Issues, Corporate Governance, E-Commerce, Finance and Accounting, IT, Privacy and Security, Not for Profit, Sales, Marketing and Operations

Spam emails—everyone receives them, no one particularly likes them. Some of us delete them. Some of us simply ignore them. But, are they such a problem that requires all Canadian businesses, big or small, to overhaul how they communicate with their customers and potential customers?—You be the judge.
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