Amazon to pay $1.1m fine over Canadian pricing practices

Amazon has agreed to pay a $1.1m fine after Canada's Competition Bureau found the ecommerce giant had created the impression prices for items on its site were lower than market prices.
Amazon will pay a $1m penalty and $100,000 towards the Competition Bureau’s costs as part of an agreement resolving the Bureau’s concerns with the online retailer’s pricing practices on its Canadian website.
The Bureau said that Amazon often compared its prices to a regular price—