#825 Low Blow, Loblaws! (canadaland podcast ep oct 2022)

Loblaws takes the heat over a tone-deaf price freeze.

And the unprecedented, unjustified, and perhaps unnecessary federal government power grab that nobody cares about.

Background reading:

• Canadians must give thanks to our Loblaw overlords for their generous new marketing campaign
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests
• Controversial political fixer re-emerges in Toronto election campaign
• Commons: Papa Pump and the Small Town Shakedown
• Use of Emergencies Act OK by me, whatever the hearings find
• Justin Trudeau accused Doug Ford of ‘hiding’ during convoy protest, documents show