David Moscrop

4 days ago | jacobin.com | David Moscrop

Canada’s oldest company is dead. Hudson’s Bay, an iconic department store chain whose first location opened in 1881, has closed its retail shops and laid off its remaining employees — over 8,300 of them. The closures bring an end to a story that stretches back to the seventeenth century and the early days of the colonial project of British North America, the fur trade, and what would later become the country of Canada.

1 week ago | portside.org | David Moscrop

Maybe We Need a New Word for “Inequality” Published May 28, 2025 It’s something beyond tragedy, beyond farce. The Trump administration and its Republican congressional allies are trying to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would, among other measures, make Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent. The total cost of the bill’s revenue-slashing provisions is expected to come in at $3.8 trillion over ten years. The rich will be the beneficiaries.

1 week ago | jacobin.com | David Moscrop

It’s something beyond tragedy, beyond farce. The Trump administration and its Republican congressional allies are trying to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would, among other measures, make Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent. The total cost of the bill’s revenue-slashing provisions is expected to come in at $3.8 trillion over ten years. The rich will be the beneficiaries. Republicans argue the tax cuts will create wealth. It’s simple, misleading, debunked trickle-down nonsense.

2 weeks ago | gzeromedia.com | David Moscrop

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2 weeks ago | gzeromedia.com | David Moscrop

Against the backdrop of surging Canadian nationalism in the face of Donald Trump’s threats and bullying, an Ottawa regulator is now trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is “Canadian culture”? The review is tied to implementation of the Trudeau-era Online Streaming Act, which requires digital streaming services that operate in Canada to help fund and promote “Canadian” content just as TV broadcasters have long had to.