By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026If Canada was ever going to be a real country (not just two monopolists and a mining company in a trenchcoat) it *needed* a serious competition enforcer. Nominally, it has one, thanks to 2024's Competition Act. The only problem is Carney, who made sweeping cuts to the Bureau's funding. 16/ 1819
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026Thanks to Carney, Canada has a Competition Bureau with all the powers it needs to save Canada from its oligarchs - but it can't afford to *do* any of that stuff. 17/ 1757
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026Monopolists rip Canadians off like crazy. We even have a guy who mistook *Les Miz* for an HBR case-study, and embarked upon the country's worst-ever price-fixing campaign, gouging the country on *bread prices*: www.donotpassgo.ca/p/the-bread-... 18/donotpassgo.caThe Bread Price-Fixing Scandal is Far From OverPayouts for $49 in the class-action against Loblaw are now rolling out, but they're only scratching the surface of Canada's grocery cartel problem 1639