Following the melting of the No Name price freeze, Loblaw had a bit of its own public meltdown. Meanwhile, the country’s largest newspaper chain continues its own perpetual self-dissolution, leaving damp puddles where once stood proud big-city dailies.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Vass Bednar
Further reading:
- Loblaws fights back on Twitter as social media storm erupts over soaring Canadian food prices - Toronto Star
- Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests - Toronto Star
- Canadian Media Spreads Police PR After Killing Of Tyre Nichols - Passage
- Richard Warnica’s Twitter Thread
- Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Consumer Protection Act
- Getting Royally Screwed - Regs 2 Riches
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