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Hi folks. Turns's out that this weekend the CBC flagship call-in radio show 'Cross-Country Checkup' is on the theme of public grocery stores as a solution to the high cost of food. This is the idea that the government could set up a non-profit, government -run grocery store chain that doesn't have to make corporate profits as an alternative to Loblaws, Sobeys etc so that the price of food can be brought down 30-40 per cent - for an explanation of how this works see https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/how-public-grocery-stores-could-work-in-canada/ .

New NDP leader Avi Lewis has made public groceries a key plank of his platform, A Toronto council motion just passed to explore the idea of public groceries in that city and in Quebec a coalition is also exploring this idea. Elsewhere the US military already runs successful public grocery stores on military bases that are mandated to be over 20% cheaper than commercial grocery stores.

If you want to call in to CBCcross-country checkup and give your thoughts, opinion and experience on supermarket price gouging, the cost of food and how public groceries might be a solution you can fill-in this form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz7NLvAI678_BbjMastfUCchYQsLXJV-3XnBuGvKf6csA1eQ/viewform call: 1-888-416-8333 or text your comments at 226-758-8924.

Providing food is an essential public service - like healthcare and clean water - its past time to move food provision away from the greedy grocery barons and put it into public, democratic ownership.

CBC Cross country Check-up - CBC Radio - Sunday 5th April

PT: 1 p.m. MT: 2 p.m. CT: 3 p.m. ET: 4 p.m. AT: 5 p.m. NT: 5:30 p.m. see https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup

The public grocery topic will probably be in 4th second hour - the first topic is space travel.

Its all I can afford

My favourite part is right near the end, 6:35 when Ford says "Isn't it great, entrepreneurs are great, they create jobs. Jobs, jobs jobs. Protect the little guy."

You can tell that's what the comms staffer told him, word for word, before he went on. But Doug didn't realize you don't actually say "jobs, jobs, jobs".

I’m just wondering, is anyone going to ask for a little more in depth of explanation of why those countries may have suffered under nationalization of their economies resources? It feels like they need a bit more resistance on that idea.

It just kind of feels like they are ignoring the outside influence of say larger, red, white and blue country intentionally crushing countries who try to nationalize their resources or say switch away from the US petrodollar.

Like maybe mock this idea? What these massively profitable private corporations can’t handle a little competition? 😂 How weak of them. Maybe they should pull up their bootstraps.

Canadians are suffering under this unaffordability crisis because we are getting over charged for everything and these services aren’t even good. We need to resist we need to push them to do better.

For Stephen Lewis 🧡

Keeping in mind, most of this polling took place before the convention concluded and the national results are more or less the same as their previous poll. Avi Lewis is not mentioned in the polling material, and voters were asked questions specifically pertaining to the party as run by Don Davies.

Not a single voice here to represent the new leadership, but loads of unchecked, bad faith criticism from Avi's ops. Even Melanie Richer was awful. Status quo slop from CBC