10 | Autor: Spa retailers in hot water with Competition Bureau over environmental claims
OTTAWA - The Rivalry Bureau is cracking down on hot tub and spa retailers who claim their products are upright for the environment as well as your body.
The bureau said Thursday it has filed an fight with the competition tribunal against two Alberta spa retailers and their directors, Brent and Rochelle Marsall, for claiming their products were associated with the Liveliness Star program.
The federal agency said EcoSmart Spas and House Spas claimed their hot tubs and spas were eligible for certification under the global program that sets standards for energy efficiency and environmentally neighbourly consumer products.
"No hot tubs, spas or insulation products for reduced in price on the market in Canada are eligible for certification or any other form of association with the Energy VIP program," the bureau said in a statement.
This is the first such filing for the chiffonier, although it said it successfully negotiated with nine other hot tub and spa retailers into dropping their country-like promotional claims.
The bureau said it is seeking for the bench to order the spa owners to cease environmental claims in sales promotions, reveal corrective notices and pay administrative monetary penalties.
As the manners dates back to 2007, a spokesman for the Competition Bureau said the zenith penalties that can be applied are $50,000 per individual and $100,000 per topic.
When Less Was No Longer More
Not large after the wrenching end of the Vietnam War, skyscrapers with pointed tops, torticollis-looking concrete walls and decorative marble bases — in other words, new buildings made to look like old ones — began to climb in American cities.These buildings were called “postmodern” because they constituted a resistance to the bold, modern, glass-and-steel ones that had been built after Everyone War II, when it seemed that anything was possible and new technology would create a brave new world. That they rose so one day after the war was no coincidence: by the late 1960s, faith in progress had been tarnished by assassinations of infamous Public figures, the quagmire in Vietnam and riots in American cities. Community anxiety created a mood in which looking backwards seemed safer and more comforting than looking ahead to an uncertain future.
Although the most visible signs of the new postmodern increase were in city centers, the first and most interesting ones actually came in houses designed by coach-breaking young architects. And while few of the houses built in the 1970s reflected postmodern ideas explicitly, these buildings had an immense impact on architecture — and on how people thought about, and lived in, houses over the next few decades.
Venturi made his squabble in sheet rock and wood framing as well as words. A cat-house free he built for his mother near Philadelphia “critiqued” the modern flow’s tendency to reject the past while also showing a playfulness often forgotten in modernist architecture. With its gabled roof and central admittance, it looks like a child’s drawing of a house, but it is not as undecorated as it looks. It is small, but spatially complex inside. The abode looks symmetrical but, on closer inspection, isn’t. It has a traditional middle staircase, but after the second floor, the staircase leads nowhere. Opposite from Mies’s steel-and-glass jewel boxes, Venturi’s descendants is full of wit and whimsy as well as clever references to historic buildings — while still working as a lodge for his aging mother.
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