‘rival’
America is similar, it just has more than 3 corporations running everything.
And a coffee shop which is widely loved but functionally is just a powerless figurehead.
Burger King’s Canada Coffeehouse
I always heard “Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother’s shoulders in a trechcoat.”
Although that one applies equally to Australia.
It is more like an oil company, a mining company, and a logging company all on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat
That’s the Irving family of the maritimes.
and two cell phone companies hanging off the torso pretending they are arms … and a big giant dong of a grocery store hanging off the groin.
Worst zoltron villain ever.
It’s a game of monopoly and we’re all losing.
Also the most boring game
We should have our wealthy play hungry hungry hippos. As in we toss them into a marsh with 4 hungry hippos.
If you’re playing monopoly, isn’t everyone a loser? 😝
What blows my mind 🤯
The landlords game has two different sets of rules you could play with. One set of rules was basically the same as the Monopoly we know today. When the game ends when one player acquires ownership of everything and bankrupts everyone else.
The other set of rules, called “prosperity”, involved a tax that redistributed wealth. The game ends when all players have doubled their original stake and everyone wins.
The game was intended to show how unbridled capitalism ultimately leads to a few billionaires owning everything and everyone else being poor/bankrupt. (Sound familiar?)
And compared it to the prosperity rules which were based on Georgism, a kind of socialism/capitalism hybrid that both rewards people for the value they produce while also creating surplus public revenue that can be used to create social safety nets.
Nice.
✨capitalism✨
in Canada we play Poleconomy.
Which is what the game of monopoly was designed to teach.
Hey, we have checks and balances in place.
The Senate is occupied by two railroads.
Wait what? Explain, please, we have rail reps in the Senate? Who appointed them??
Fuckin Loblaws selling " Presidents Choice" food in a country with no President. Except the President of Loblaws … Basically the coup already happened.
If he could get away with it, he’d rename is Peasant’s Choice.
Oh wait. He probably can get away with it.
Historically, the name came from Dave Nichol, who was president of the company for decades. He actually had a very strong hand in the selection of products that were included in the product line.
Apparently all kinds of people would pitch product ideas at him, and would taste test them and pick only ones he liked. The idea of “President’s Choice” wasn’t to be cheapo no name products, but unique and distinctive stuff personally picked by the company’s president.
And Dave wasn’t just some guy in the corner office. In his prime he was a Canadian personality, and you saw him in TV commercials. Once he left Loblaws in the '90s the President’s Choice stuff lost its panache and meaning.
Bit of a stretch to say they’re rivals.
Not Canadian… yet. How close I am to citizenship?
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Rogers
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Lobslaw
There are actually three major telecom companies making up 85%+ of the market share: Bell, Rogers, and Telus. Don’t be fooled by names like Virgin, Fido, and Koodo, as those are just the “lite” subsidiaries of the three major companies respectively.
For supermarkets the then there is Loblaws, as you said. But, it’s not like Sobeys and Metro are much better, they just keep their robber-baron executives better hidden.
Huh, I almost guessed Telus. Is Bell more of an east coast thing?
Bell was available in Nova Scotia when I lived there. It’s also in Ontario. I can’t speak for other provinces.
Bell is the second largest in Canada in number of suscribers.
Lobslaw 🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣
I’m keeping that one.
I suppose that’s one point against citizenship lol
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Bell, Rogers and… IGA?
Weston family, so a fuckton of chains across Canada. But their main chain is Sobey’s
…Superstore/Loblaws.
We also have a senate, consisting of appointed large dairy farmers.
Really crazy how Irving’s don’t get a mention.
As a Canadian, what the hell is an Irving?
Closest thing Canada has toa royal family. They own the east coast.
They’re not rivals.
Wait but Joe Rogan told me it’s governed by a communist, I don’t know what that is but it can’t be good
Long live Sasktel.
Until Bell decides to snuff it out. They’ll use their “legal” division (aka the CRTC) to outlaw it and no-one will squawk about it because: if you control the media, you control ‘the people’s’ voice. We live in the shittiest timeline.
And then bell asks us why we’re depressed.
Lol. It’s a crown corporation and WILDLY popular. No one will squawk? Any party would not withstanding that shit immediately because it’s popular, and then just wrap it in their party-specific words.
The LAST thing Bell wants is to draw national attention to how well a provincial offering is. The LAST thing they want is for people to see that there are alternative structures that are working for other Canadians.
I’m sure the conservatives will continue trying to figure out a way to push it to withering and crumbling… they definitely tried to sell off/privatize chunks of them in the past but the level of outrage they were met with has put those ideas to bed for the time being
“This part of the Crown corporation is profitable on its own, we should sell it off!”
“Why are we spending so much money to subsidize this Crown corporation!? We should sell it off!”
It’s a tough fight for them because of how familiar the population is with those corps.
Lab services in Sask have bounced between private and public several times… Nobody really notices (which is sad IMO)
But SGI and SaskTel… Everyone is a client, and everyone can look over any provincial border and go “whoa, don’t wanna end up like them”.
