Turns out healthcare isn't a profitable biz. Who knew?

Walmart to shutter all 51 health center locations supermarketnews.com/health-wellnes…

Is this the end of lettuce? Why Canada’s food supply is headed for uncharted territory (and why food inflation may be far from over)
thestar.com/news/canada/is… via @torontostar

In San Francisco, a former parking lot is now home to 131 affordable apartments with no parking. fastcompany.com/91113357/in-sa…

What fresh hell is this

Find out how Toronto-based medical imaging company RetiSpec is unlocking the future of Alzheimer's detection with its AI-driven eye scan.

Ft. RetiSpec and Eliav Shaked .

marsdd.com/news/toronto-s…

Lost my mind watching this when Grace eloquently lays out the material conditions that lead to mental and physical ill-health as outlined by experts only to be shut down by rightoid idiots going 'have you considered its the iPhones though'

So lucid.
I invite my economic brethern (and sistern, but they're mostly brethern) to read and comment.

#FutureOfWorkers #FutureOfEverything

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⏳We're accepting applications until 29 April.

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Reminder: inflation hit rates not seen in 40 year highs in 2022
The feds cut pandemic income supports in 2022
(Poverty rates are measured in constant dollars)

The latest example of why we need rigorous, smart, and thoughtful regulation of monopolies/oligopolies.
Their policies can kill first responders endanger others, per today's Los Angeles Times column by Michael Hiltzik:

There is so much bad news on the healthcare front in Ontario/Canada.
Start your day right with Kenyon Wallace and Megan Ogilvie's tale of how a new Toronto hospital plan is cutting surgical wait times to keep the public system public. thestar.com/news/canada/a-… via @torontostar

1. Today FTC issued a final rule banning noncompetes for workers across the country.

The rule will ensure that Americans have the freedom to pursue a new job, start a new business, or bring a new idea to market.

ftc.gov/legal-library/…

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

Good piece, good analogy

Thrilled that Elliot Haspel is joining me and Antonia Simon from the UK to talk about the profitization of childcare, May 17!

Register here:
sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

NEW in The Atlantic: We don’t have ‘affordable’ public schools, ‘affordable’ libraries or ‘affordable’ fire departments. Why do we accept ‘affordable’ as the goalpost for child care?

theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Wait until you hear about the cost of public school and the wages of public school teachers. Taxation truly makes magic happen

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor asks in the Trump immunity hearing: 'If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts that for which he can get immunity?'

Trump

America, what has happened to you?

Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/10445435/…

Here's an LTC story based on the repulsive governing-by-announcement strategy (they'll tell us what they want us to know).
thestar.com/business/opini…