For Earth Day, a couple of thoughts:

- Cities are part of Earth
- Cities are good for the environment
- The more dense, the better

Podcast ep coming out soon where we go in on why this is a disaster for about an hour.

Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds Live Nation Entertainment Inc. illegally monopolized live events ticketing and amphitheater markets, a New York federal jury found Wednesday, a blow to the US’s largest concert promoter.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From this great new report out from @cfib.bsky.social www.cfib-fcei.ca/hubfs/advoca...

WOW. 80% of small businesses in Canada say addressing monopolies should be a priority for government. Unsurprising but still shocking, even to to me.

CBC investigation finds grocers Loblaw, Sobeys overcharging for underweight meat — again | RCI Findings come 1 year after similar CBC probe found grocers selling underweight meat.

Loblaws: we build future-forward experiences that solve complex problems

Also Loblaws: there is no way to determine the weight of meat
ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

Maybe this time

Will be different

Canadians really really really don't like algorithmic pricing. 50% want it banned and the 30% that want it allowed are calling for regulation.

Great to see building energy at the provincial and federal level to ensure Canadians can count on fair pricing in the marketplace.

Biblically accurate Statue of Liberty

Sports betting ads are everywhere — and the province is cashing in — but at what cost? Andrew Kim (@torontomet.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social how Ontario’s online gambling shift opened the floodgates, increasing access to a potentially addictive product. At 8pm | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan

Price controls make a troubling return to the mainstream Governments should focus more on boosting supply and productivity

It's not so much price controls @ retail level that we need, but rather we must tackle corporate concentration and market power by preventing big mergers and acquisitions all along food supply chains in the first place.

://www.ft.com/content/d272c711-178c-4c73-a397-5b8fac200e5f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Canada's Competition Bureau is currently reviewing the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal

Why city-run grocery stores may help combat rising food prices As food prices continue to rise, one Toronto city councillor is proposing non-profit, city-run grocery stores as a possible solution. CBC’s Alejandrina Alvarez looks at how the pilot program would wor...

Thanks to the CBC for having me on to talk about the potential of public grocery stores in Canada. The issues with competition in our food system go beyond the store shelf. We need to deal with monopolization further up the chain.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"What appears to trouble people is the idea that prices might be tailored to individual consumers in ways that are invisible, difficult to understand, and potentially exploitative."

Check out CAMP's brief on algorithmic pricing and collusion antimonopoly.ca/wp-content/u...

Canadians Are Skeptical of Algorithmic Pricing - Abacus Data %

Canadians know what's up.

"Across the country, Canadians express a strong desire for governments to step in and set rules governing algorithmic pricing practices, with many supporting outright prohibition of certain forms of automated pricing systems."

abacusdata.ca/canadians-ar...

Who controls Banff? Inside the decade-long battle over rail, gondolas, and the ‘Americanization’ of Canada’s national parks

Happy to speak to @faliceemo.bsky.social at @thehubcanada.bsky.social about the growing Americanization and monopolization of Canada's national parks.

thehub.ca/2026/03/19/w...

Moving rapidly from worrying that videos are AI to hoping videos are AI

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block $6.2 Billion Nexstar/Tegna Broadcasting Merger Merger would create a media giant covering 80% of U.S. television households OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, alongside a coalition of eight attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to...

In non-Ticketmaster news, last night a group of state attorneys general sued to block Nexstar from acquiring Tegna, a merger between the two largest television broadcasters. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Today's greatest inflationary pressures over the past year:
Groceries, rental housing, out of pocket purchases of healthcare services.
Electricity inflation has risen the fastest since November (year over year inflation)
From www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/c...

Province of Manitoba | News Releases | Manitoba Government Ending Predatory Pricing in Grocery Stores and Other Retail Province of Manitoba

Right now Manitoba is the only province in Canada that understands we can have a say over what goes into the prices we see on store shelves. news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.h...

Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada.

*Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information.

t.co/ZugFOj7983

"As U.S. state and Big Tech become one, we become digital serfs, and it sucks" By Canadian Shield Institute Managing Director @vassb.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that “these p...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When you talk like this, you're a monopoly

Ditto being able to transform into a human raises questions I don't want answered.

Good grief.

Competition Tribunal scraps Google’s Charter appeal, says it does not pass ‘true penal consequence’ test - The Wire Report The Charter appeal was filed in February 2025, when Google responded to the Competition Bureau’s 2024 lawsuit alleging it engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the online advertising market.

The Competition Tribunal has canned Google’s Charter appeal, allowing a lawsuit based on the company’s alleged anti-competitive conduct to proceed, saying it failed to meet the “indisputably high bar” of the true penal consequence test.

www.thewirereport.ca/2026/03/05/c...

I am hearing that Paramount-Warner Bros is both pro-competitive and pro-consumer

Just don't ask Claude for a word count