Growing Grocery Profits, Shrinking Pay Cheques
A new report from the Broadbent Institute examines how the financialization of the grocery retail industry has raised prices while shrinking pay cheques.
A new report from the Broadbent Institute examines how the financialization of the grocery retail industry has raised prices while shrinking pay cheques.
Perspectives is a new space for the Canadian progressive left to build on the ideas of political economy, governance and working-class political strategy.
With extreme heat, storms, forest fires, and floods Canadians should now expect their buildings to protect them from such weather extremes and to not add to the climate problem.
As these brave public workers undertake one of the largest strike actions in Canadian history, we progressives need to have their backs.
Poilievre won’t do anything to fix these problems, of course. It is one thing to know the issues, but it is quite another to solve them.
SaskTel — a publicly-owned telecommunications company — already enjoys significant market share in Saskatchewan, forcing the big guys to lower their prices to compete.
In mature, world-class economies, workers are properly understood as the foundation of economic success and unions are seen as critical partners in that success. Doug Ford has proven that Ontario, at least, has some growing up to do. Executive Director Jennifer Hassum on CUPE’s fight for labour rights, originally published in the Ottawa Citizen.
Within the context of capitalist orthodoxy, there are no good options; only bad choices which will lead to a recession, rising unemployment and deepening poverty and inequality.
Supply-side and demand-side measures to incentivize this shift are touted at the top of Budget 2022’s climate action measures. Relying on incentives for private sector and consumer investment in ZEVs, however, come with costs and implications that are not always considered.