{"id":904348,"date":"2026-09-21T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904348\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:42:15","slug":"stubhub-canada-fined-20k-under-ontario-ticket-capping-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904348\/","title":{"rendered":"StubHub Canada fined $20K under Ontario ticket capping law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Ontario government has fined ticket reseller StubHub Canada Ltd. $20,000 under a recent law that caps the sale of seats at face value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The province\u2019s consumer beware website shows a $10,000 fine for allegedly making a ticket available for sale above face value and another $10,000 for facilitating a transaction without having proof of the original price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The website shows both fines were issued on Sept. 9 but does not say what events the penalties were linked to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">StubHub Canada and the province did not immediately provide comment on the penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The company has been on notice since the spring, when the province sent 27 ticket resale websites, including StubHub, letters announcing the businesses would be inspected for non-compliance with the new law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It later added StubHub and SeatGeek Canada to the consumer beware list, fining SeatGeek Canada $25,000 in August for flouting the price cap law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Ontario government has fined ticket reseller StubHub Canada Ltd. $20,000 under a recent law that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,75,713,44,11867,6578],"class_list":["post-904348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}