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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026(The Bread Bandit isn't solely to blame for the price-fixing. He had help! The plan was actually devised by Pete "Third Way" Buttigieg. Mayor Pete cited setting up Canada's bread cartel as his proudest accomplishment from his days as a McKinsey ghoul:) nationalpost.com/news/how-may... 19/nationalpost.comHow Mayor Pete's consulting work for Loblaws brought the Canadian bread price-fixing scandal to Democratic primaryFor six months in 2008, Pete Buttigieg says he spent 14-hour days hunkered down in a suburban Toronto office park, crunching data for Loblaws 46912
