Each monopoly is owned by a billionaire family (Weston, Sobey and Coutu).
It’s basically medieval feudalism up here. Price fixing and gouging are out of control. If Carney does anything meaningful to disrupt it he will be lauded for it for decades to come.
Racism is imbued in America’s DNA. It’s never easy to root out something so foundational. It takes a real hard look in the mirror and, let’s be honest, when America looks at itself in the mirror it isn’t for self-reflection.
Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers—themselves desperately afraid of being downsized—are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.
At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. A scenario like that of Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here may then be played out. For once such a strongman takes office, nobody can predict what will happen. In 1932, most of the predictions made about what would happen if Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor were wildly overoptimistic.
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. The words ‘nigger’ and ‘kike’ will once again be heard in the workplace. All the sadism which the academic left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.
Achieving our Country by Richard Rorty (1998).
I’m not a woman but will speak on what little I know from life experience.
From a woman’s perspective, an offer to share intimacy is not necessarily validating in the way a similar offer may be received by a man.
For some, perhaps many, women there is the looming question of whether an offer of intimacy is simply a man looking to make them the object of their sexual gratification. Many women are not interested in that.
As men, we’re not used to getting offers. So much so that when we get one it makes our day, week, month etc. For many women, the challenge is not getting offers, but there is a looming question of whether the offer genuine. What is the intention of the person showing interest? It’s not that men aren’t also concerned with these questions. It’s just that, for a variety of reasons, the stakes are lower for men. So they spend less time thinking about them and more on just being excited someone noticed them.
As disgusting as this is, is it really surprising when most of media is referring to a child rapist and sex trafficker as ‘disgraced financier’.
Not exactly cannibalism but mummia (powdered mummies) was popular in Europe from the 12th to 19th century.
As someone who has drove through Brampton at various points in the past four decades this is such a wild exaggeration it’s almost comical.
This article touches on core factors and discusses the elimination of regional variances in insurance premiums within Ontario: https://www.thestar.com/business/brampton-is-the-most-expensive-city-for-car-insurance-in-ontario-here-s-why/article_816b6b40-d767-596e-bdba-50e83c41af6d.html
An unsurprisingly one sided perspective on gentrification with no attention given to the displacement and economic exclusion of those already living in those ‘ghettos’ and ‘hoods’.
Can communities built on a settler mindset ever reconcile their past and grow beyond it? Or will it always be ok as long as the people that do it have money and dress / act / talk the way some may like?
Netanyahu, Putin and other great war criminals peace loving statesmen of the 21st century.
Depends how much you can fit in there.
The fact that she looks more like Freida Pinto than Usha Vance makes me think it’s AI.
I don’t disagree entirely but I also don’t see it as binary (one or the other).
The impact of European colonialism and neocolonialism have present day ramifications via colonial legacy institutions and the so called international ruled based order which was designed to maintain Western hegemony.
Western/European intervention in Africa did not end with the colonial era (see: neocolonialism)
Several great powers have emerged from the Global South. China is one example. There will be more. I don’t support imperial actions by any state actor.
We can criticize the ongoing impact of exploitation during European colonial era while also criticizing present day imperial actions by China, Russia and the US today.
Never said anything about it being exclusive but the scale of modern European colonization is very clearly unprecendented in human history and its caused ongoing challenges in the Global South to the present day. Neocolonialism works to perpetuate the imbalances caused by colonialism. Democracy and rule of law in Europe have a global foundation. Highly recommend the book Dawn of Everything which dives deeper into how philosophies of the indigineous peoples in the Americas contributed to enlightenment thought. I’m not in support of a narrative of guilty peoples or special races. I have nothing against Europeans or their states, past or present. But we have to look at history honestly in order to move forward as a society. Brushing it under the rug, which has been the approach of many colonial powers (see Britain’s Operation Legacy), will bite back sooner or later.
Help who exactly? If we’re trying to maintain a multinational production framework (focussed on hydrocarbon guzzlers) that both the US government and US corporations don’t seem interested in anymore then sure it’s bad from that perspective.
Between US and Chinese auto manufacturing, one is clearly backward looking and the other forward. Putting all our eggs in the backward basket because the US is such an amazing, awesome friend to Canada seems like a potentially dangerous play at this point.
The amount of Chinese EVs being let in amounts to 3% of the Canadian market. We should be more interested in the potential for knowledge and tech transfer which, if cultivated, can lead to an indigineous Canadian auto industry.
Unless the US successfully annexes Canada, then yes this would backfire. But most Canadians seem keen on fighting / preventing that outcome by whatever means necessary.
Help who exactly? If we’re trying to maintain a multinational production framework that both the American government and American corporations don’t seem interested in anymore then sure it’s bad from that perspective.
Between US and Chinese auto manufacturing, one is clearly backward looking and the other forward. Putting all our eggs in the backward basket because the US is such an amazing, awesome friend to Canada seems like a potentially dangerous play at this point.
Unless the US successfully annexes Canada, then yes this would backfire. But most Canadians seem keen on fighting / preventing that outcome by whatever means necessary.
Institutions carry the consequences of colonialism from the past into the present. It’s also important to recognize neocolonialism which acts to perpetuate the imbalances that the colonial era produced.
If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.
If we’re being literal, Elizabeth and then Charles haha.
Jokes aside, the impacts of European colonialism did not end with world war 2 and the resultant imbalance is intentionally perpetuated through neocolonialism.
Edmund Burke famously described societies and the institutions that sustain them as a "partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.”
In other words, institutions link the past, the present and the future, carrying forward both progress (industrial development, individual rights for some) but also the manifestations of exclusionary frameworks (slavery, segregation and colonialism).
If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.
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Depends on your risk tolerance. Low tolerance look at commodities. Higher tolerance look at emerging markets. Europe is pretty stagnant, would not recommend.
An imperial power that remains a global hegimon giving back land that it sees as valuable… hmm…
Carney needs to create favorable conditions for Aldi (a German company) to enter the Canadian market. They already have a strong presence in the north eastern US and they could easily undercut the existing Canadian grocery monopolies. This is a market in desperate need for healthy competition.
Costco already undercuts Canadian grocers. Most Canadians that have one available preferentially go there but it’s not enough. If the Canadian grocery market is bloated and inefficient, letting more light and agile (albeit foreign) players in will be a much needed wake up call for domestic corporations.
This is not advocacy to remove all red tape in retail. Target tried to break into the Canadian market and failed miserably because they couldn’t adapt to Canada. In my view that’s perfectly fine, but Canadians desperately need relief when it comes to cost of food and its unlikely that will come from their grocery oligopoly.