Trump Sparks Trade War, Let Canada Spark Trade Cooperation

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. This version is slightly edited – read the full version here. Rare is the commercial economist who supports tariffs. These fly in the face of the cashflow/endless growth model which most economists have […]

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New Book Charts Roadmap For Smashing Corporate Monopoly Power In Canada

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The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets And Harm Canadians. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar. Sutherland House, 2024. “If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade” – U.S. Senator John Sherman, responsible for the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, and Costco comprise 80%

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Are Biden And Trudeau Responsible For Inflation And High Prices?

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Most of us have heard the term “It’s the economy, stupid!”. It actually comes from a handmade sign that Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist James Carville had in his office in 1992 US election. The majority of federal elections in Western democracies are mostly about the economy in some way. Interestingly, Carville had three points on

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Crossroads Blues: Canada’s Economy Never Seems To Get On The Right Path

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Blues legend Robert Johnson wrote and recorded the song “Crossroads” (Cross Road Blues) – the song he is most famous for and which many people likely know from the rock band Cream recording it in the 60s. There is also a legend around this song – that Johnson sold his soul to the devil at

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$16.3 Billion Saint Thomas Volkswagen EV Battery Plant Is A Bad Idea

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Government, Volkswagen, and Stellantis: Do the Jobs Justify the Cost? Two battery plants, Volkswagen and Stellantis, are vying for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing dominance. The federal and provincial governments are promising large contributions to help build these plants. Volkswagen is building a new plant in St. Thomas, which is set to begin producing in

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Labour shortage: Time to Embrace the Horror

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The Black Plague killed nearly 50% of the population of England.  As the population recovered, many impacts of the disaster faded.  However one social structural change, the doubling of real wages for labourers, was permanent.  Why? The shortage of peasant labor to meet landowner demand plus the fallowing of the least productive fields increased productivity

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