BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260426T223906EDT-8247vlS1PN@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260427T023906Z DESCRIPTION:The first of three lectures by authors Vass Bednar and Denise H earn who draw on their new book\, The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Marke ts and Harm Canadians \, to detail the rise of “everything companies” – fi rms that aggressively expand their reach across diverse ecosystems\, aimin g to own and control critical assets in multiple sectors. This lecture on economics\, business regulation\, and smart public policy will be followed by an interview hosted by CBC’s Paul Haavardsrud\, host of The Cost of Li ving.\n\nThe first 100 attendees will receive a copy of The Big Fix.\n\nTh e lecture is free and open to the public. Please register to secure your p lace and take part in this important conversation.\n\nNew Monopolies: The Rise of Everything Companies\n\nWhen Canadians complain about high grocery prices\, cell phone rates\, and banking fees\, what we’re really talking about is corporate power. But beyond the grocers\, telecoms\, and banks\, more and more of the Canadian economy is controlled by only a handful of b ig companies in everything from funeral services to fertilizer.\n\nMonopol ies contribute to some of our biggest economic problems\, like rising ineq uality\, high consumer prices\, lower wages\, and stagnant growth. But wil l more competition\, alone\, solve these challenges? Markets are evolving\ , and companies are using new tricks to leverage their dominance into mult iple sectors\, controlling prices and capturing markets. In this engaging session\, the authors of The Big Fix \, detail the rise of “everything com panies” – firms that aggressively expand their reach across diverse ecosys tems\, aiming to own and control critical assets in multiple sectors. And companies that increasinly maintain an illusion of rivalry to disguise jus t how concentrated markets have become.\n\nThe Authors\n\nVass Bednar is t he Executive Director of McMaster University's MPP in Digital Society prog ram. Her work focuses on the intersection(s) between public policy and tec hnology. She contributes to policy discussions in Canada through her affil iations as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Inno vation (CIGI)\, a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum (PPF)\, opinion editor ials in the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post\, and her popular newsle tter 'regs to riches.' Vass was recently recognized as a Globe and Mail Re port on Business “Changemaker” for her work describing Cineplex’s unique m onopolization and calling out shady apps on Shopify. She is a graduate of McMaster's Arts & Science program and holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Toronto. She is the host of the Globe and Mail's podcas t\, Lately.\n\nDenise Hearn is a writer and applied researcher who advises governments\, financial institutions\, companies\, and nonprofits on anti trust\, economic policy\, and new economic thinking. She is currently a Re sident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment\, a joint center of Columbia University Law School and Columbia Climate School . Denise co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of C ompetition – named one of the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2018. Her wri ting has been translated into 10 languages and featured in major publicati ons globally. She currently authors the Embodied Economics newsletter. Den ise has an MBA from the Oxford Saïd Business School and a BA in Internatio nal Studies from Baylor University.\n\nThe Host\n\nPaul Haavardsrud is the host of the Cost of Living on CBC Radio One. He started his career as a b usiness journalist at Dow Jones News before moving to newspapers. In Grade 11\, he hit the game-winning three in the Crescent Heights Cowboys Invita tional basketball tournament. No big deal. He doesn’t really talk about it unless it comes up organically in conversation.\n\nThe Lectures\n\nThe Mc Gill Max Bell Lectures: Economic Ideas for a Stronger Canada is an annual Canada-wide lecture series that focuses each year on an economic policy ch allenge that impacts the lives of Canadians. This year we turn our attenti on to competition policy and spotlight writers and competition policy expe rts Vass Bednar and Denise Hearn who in their book and accompanying lectur es help us think about how markets are made and remade\, the importance an d limitations of present-day competition policy\, and the need to reconsid er the optimal role of the Canadian state in moderating corporate behaviou r.\n\nCan't join us in Vancouver? Vass and Denise will be in Montreal on O ctober 24 and in Toronto on October 29.\n DTSTART:20241015T210000Z DTEND:20241015T230000Z LOCATION:CA\, BC\, Vancouver\, V6E 1A7\, UBC Robson Square\, Theater (C300) \, 800 Robson Street SUMMARY:New Monopolies: The Rise of Everything Companies URL:/maxbellschool/channels/event/new-monopolies-rise- everything-companies-359826 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR