S.L.A.P.P Lawsuits

Subway v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2020 ONSC 1263 (CanLII)

[1] This case arises from the February 24, 2017 broadcast of an investigative report on the show Marketplace (the “Marketplace Report”), created, aired, and published online by the Defendant, Canadian Broadcast Corporation and its employees the Defendants, Charlsie Agro, Kathleen Coughlin, Eric Szeto (collectively “CBC”). The subject matter of the Marketplace Report was a comparison of the chicken sandwiches sold by the Plaintiffs (collectively “Subway”) and four other fast food chains in Canada.