Are City-Owned Grocery Stores an Answer to Sky-High Supermarket Prices?

City consumer dept. hurts small business

New York’s small businesses are hanging on by a thread. From retail shops to corner bodegas and independent grocery stores, the past few years have not only forced small business owners to confront staggering economic challenges, but also a needlessly hostile regulatory environment brought on by out-of-touch policymakers. As always, everyday New Yorkers are ultimately left to pay the price. Unfortunately, this trend isn’t unique to New York. In …

Are city-owned grocery stores an answer to sky-high supermarket prices?

A grassroots campaign fuelled by left-leaning ideas led Zohran Mamdani to a resounding victory in New York City's mayoral democratic primary. Policy analyst Vass Bednar says one of those ideas — government-owned grocery stores — could potentially work in Canada.

Mamdani’s Win Was Not a Realignment

In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a narrative has emerged: The city is undergoing a political realignment. Pundits argue that Mamdani’s defeat of former Governor Andrew Cuomo signals the dawn of a new progressive era—one in which democratic socialism supplants centrism, and the nature of urban power is fundamentally reimagined. The New York Times even printed a piece declaring that, “This is a…