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e30: A CAMP Conversation with Keldon Bester and Robin Shaban
e30: This is going to be the last episode I do of Monopolies Killed My Hometown, thank you for listening to the podcast. In this last episode I want to bring on Keldon...
e29: Great Things are Happening
e29: In this week's episode I look at a lot of the great things happening in the anti-monopoly world currently. There appears to be a sea-change towards monopolies and...
e28: Canned Goods and more Rogers/Shaw madness
e28: In this episode we're looking at two topics - the Canning Industry in the 1930's and more on the Rogers/Shaw merger. We're going to start with the investigation ...
e27: Let Me Fix My Tractor!
e27: Apologies on this delayed episode. I was on holiday and didn't get this pulled together before I went away. This episode we're back to the Royal Commission on Pr...
e26: Unfair Access to Capital and Unaffordable Housing
Welcome back to more real estate discussions. This week we are talking about unfair access to capital and how I suspect it is contributing to our unaffordable housing ...
e25: Increase Competition to Increase Housing Supply
I planned on moving on to a different topic, but I'm going to stick with housing for now. Last week I looked at concentration in the building supply industry and how i...
E24: Construction Consolidation Contributes to Canadian Crisis?
We're going to take a break from the Price Spreads Report in this episode. Instead I want to talk housing, construction and consolidation. I come from the Construction...
e23: The more things change... the more they stay the same. Meat edition.
We're back to the Price Spreads Report, and this time we are focused on the Meat Packing Industry. This section fascinated me. I loved the commissions discussion about...
E22: Big Tobacco meet Big Tech?
In this week's episode we go back to the Price Spreads Report and look at the behavior of the Tobacco industry. Tobacco was dominated by one major player and they used...
E21: What happened to "Busy" Amherst?
I'm heading back to the Royal Commission on Price Spreads Report from 1934, specifically to look at the Chapter on Industry.I wanted to look back at this chapter speci...
e20 - Local Banking to Help our Communities
There's a been a lot of banking discussions in the last few months - the Silicon Valley Bank run, Credit Suisse, RBC looking to buy HSBC. There's so much talk about ba...
e19: Get that Trash Outta here - Municipalities can be anti-monopoly too
Welcome back to Monopolies Killed My Hometown. We're back after my little hiatus with an episode on garbage removal and how I see Municipalities contributing to the An...
e18: Rogers-Shaw and Competition Policy for all of us
Welcome back everyone! In this episode I dive into my take on the Rogers/Shaw merger. Tl dr; the Competition Policy Machine worked exactly how it has been designed. I ...
E17: Roll-Up Those Newspapers
Today's episode is all about local newspapers. I've had a long history with them, every Saturday my Dad would buy 4 different papers and we'd all sit around and read t...
E16: How to fix retail? - Price Spreads Report part 6
This episode is perfect timing. We're looking at the recommendations the Price Spreads Commission is making to try to fix the retail industry in the 1930's, and on Nov...
E15: What were they actually doing? - Price Spreads Report Pt 5
We're getting near the end of the discussion on the department and chain stores. This episode will be a look into the specific actions of the chain and department stor...
E14: The Price Spreads Report, part 4 - Chain Stores
Last episode was a dive into department stores, this week is all about chain stores – think Wal-Mart, Superstore, The Brick, Home Depot, Kent. We’re going to get in th...
E13: The Price Spreads Report Pt 3 - Department Stores
I'm continuing my deep dive into the Price Spreads report and it's look at the retail industry in the 1930's. This week's episode is all about department stores, speci...
E12: The Price Spreads Report, pt 2 - Retail as our Distribution System
In today's episode I dive into Chapter 7 of the Report of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads. This chapter is all about the 1934 Canadian retail scene and the impac...
E11: Introduction to the Price Spreads Report, pt 1
In today's episode, I reach back to 1934 and revisit the Report of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads. At the height of the Great Depression the price of bread rose...
E10: The Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project Launch Event
On August 11, 2022 we hosted the launch event for the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project. Myself, Keldon Bester and Robin Shaban were joined by Barry Lynn with the Open Ma...
E09: The Efficiences Defense - Let's Not Keep It.
This episode is being posted 1 day early because I have exciting news. Thursday, August 11th at 12:00 pm EST is the free, online launch event for the Canadian Anti-Mon...
E08: Attack on the Free Enterprise System - part 2
The "Attack on American Free Enterprise System" memo, or as it's better known The Powell Memo. Lewis Powell wrote this memo for the education committee of the American...
E07: Attack on American Free Enterprise System - Part 1
"Attack on American Free Enterprise System", or better known as The Powell Memo. Lewis Powell wrote this memo for the education committee of the American Chamber of Co...
E06: What kind of competition do I want? and some updates
Today's episode is slightly different than usual. In today's episode I provide updates on some amendments to the Competition Act introduced in this year's Federal Budg...
E05: Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives, part 2
In episode 5 of Monopolies Killed My Hometown, I actually get into the article, Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives by Peter C. Newman. Last week, in part 1, I m...
E04: Did Competition Policy help kill Maclean's magazine, local news and Canadian culture?
This is part 1 of 2 where I look back at the article "Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives" by Peter C. Newman from the May 24, 1958 edition of MacLean's magazine....
E03: Where did we start? What did MacKenzie King think?
E03: Going back to a paper written by William Lyon MacKenzie King, we can learn some of the thought processes behind passing the Combines Investigation Act, the precur...
E02: Where are we now? The Canadian Competition Act, Bureau, and Tribunal
E02: In this episode I explore where we are right now with our Canadian competition policy. I look at 3 areas: the Competition Act, the Competition Bureau, and the Com...
E01 Things appeared the same, but they felt different.
Welcome to Monopolies Killed My Hometown. In this episode I share the path that led me to identify that Monopolies and Corporate Consolidation is the root cause behind...
