Letters: Budget Competition
November 9, 2025 - Budget 2025 brings competition in banking but misses the potential for an anti-monopoly approach to the economy, Tim Wu’s new book shows Big Tech’s extractive ways and the need for Canada to lead on anti-monopoly, and the U.K.’s CMA takes a second look at the Getty-Shutterstock stock photo merger.
Letters: Does What It Says on the Tin
November 2, 2025 - Federal government proposes banning non-compete agreements in regulated industries, consolidated agricultural input markets push U.S. and Canadian farmers to the brink, and Big Tech expands its spending spree trying to bend European policy to its will.
Letters: Grocery Gouge
October 26, 2025 - Canadian food inflation stubbornly persists as policymakers refuse to act against food chain monopolies, Ticketmaster’s dominance means five figure prices for Blue Jays World Series tickets, and massive AWS outage reflects the dangers of concentration in our economic infrastructure.
Letters: Gassed Up
October 19, 2025 - Federal government approves Sunoco’s takeover of Parkland gas stations and infrastructure, elevated lead levels in popular protein powders remind us of the need for regulation, and Open Markets releases a new report on Big Tech’s threat to freedom of speech.
Letters: Banking on Competition
October 12, 2025 - Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada comes out against Canada’s concentrated banking sector, book Launch! Anti-monopoly champion Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, and Brazil leads the way in regaining control over critical digital infrastructure.