Why city-run grocery stores may help combat rising food prices
CBC
As food prices continue to rise, one Toronto city councillor is proposing non-profit, city-run grocery stores as a possible solution. CBC’s Alejandrina Alvarez looks at how the pilot program would work.
Inside the ‘Americanization’ of Canada’s national parks: The decade-long battle over control of Banff and Jasper
THE HUB
What started as a plan to build a passenger train connecting Calgary to Banff has turned into something much bigger—and much stranger—involving an oil tycoon, a decade-long odyssey through Canada’s regulatory hurdles, an American tourism giant, and a deeper debate about who benefits from our national parks.
'I worry that retail is being brought to the party at the wrong time': Wasserman
BNN BLOOMBERG
Rachel Wasserman, founder of Wasserman Business Law and CAMP fellow, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the risks and benefits of private markets..
Should retail investors really get access to private markets?
The Globe and Mail
In piece for the Globe, CAMP fellow Rachel Wasserman and former chair of the Ontario Securities Commission and senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute Edward Waitzer argue that access to private markets for retail investors could drive up costs, drive down returns, increase market fragility through liquidity mismatches, and invite abusive transactions.
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The ‘obvious candidate’: Jeanne Pratt favoured by lawyers, academics to take over as competition commissioner
THE WIRE REPORT
Acting competition commissioner Jeanne Pratt may soon have the ‘acting’ tag removed from her job title, according to leading legal scholars and competition lawyers.
Google suffers setback in fight against Canada's competition watchdog
CITY NEWS
The Competition Tribunal dismissed this week a constitutional challenge from Google, which has been accused of causing harm through its hold on the online advertising world.