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DESCRIPTION:In the third and final lecture of the 2024 91Ö±˛Ą Max Bell Lect
 ures series\, Vass Bednar and Denise Hearn draw on their new book\, The Bi
 g Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians. The lecture will 
 be followed by an interview hosted by Nam Kiwanuka\, award-winning journal
 ist\, co-host and producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin\, and host of T
 VO’s latest project\, The Thread with Nam Kiwanuka.\n\nThe first 100 atten
 dees will receive a copy of authors' new book The Big Fix.\n\nThe lecture 
 is free and open to the public. Please register to secure your place and t
 ake part in this important conversation.\n\nThe Big Fix: How Companies Rem
 ake Markets\, Cash In\, and Keep it Hidden (and What to Do About It!)\n\nB
 ay Street is home to Canada’s financial titans who leverage their capital 
 to build the future. But increasingly\, companies and investors use capita
 l to amass market power\, entrench themselves\, and buy growth instead of 
 building it productively. The rise of private equity\, in particular\, has
  dramatically changed the economy. Canadians may not realize that every ti
 me they visit the vet\, go to a casino\, buy a Tim Horton’s coffee\, or fl
 y on WestJet\, they’re paying into an opaque and underregulated part of th
 e economy and enriching global investors. \n\nSimilarly\, many Canadians d
 on’t recognize the new tactics companies employ to pad profits\, like shri
 nkflation\, junk fees\, personalised pricing\, and other opaque activities
 . This lecture by Vass Bednar and Denise Hearn will discuss the profound 2
 1st century shifts that digital markets and the financialization of the ec
 onomy have brought\, eroding trust between consumers and corporations\, an
 d present current and future solutions to these challenges\, providing hop
 e that change is possible and already underway.\n\nThe Authors\n\nVass Bed
 nar is the Executive Director of McMaster University's MPP in Digital Soci
 ety program. Her work focuses on the intersection(s) between public policy
  and technology. She contributes to policy discussions in Canada through h
 er affiliations as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governa
 nce Innovation (CIGI)\, a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum (PPF)\, opinio
 n editorials in the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post\, and her popula
 r newsletter 'regs to riches.' Vass was recently recognized as a Globe and
  Mail Report on Business “Changemaker” for her work describing Cineplex’s 
 unique monopolization and calling out shady apps on Shopify. She is a grad
 uate of McMaster's Arts & Science program and holds a Master of Public Pol
 icy from the University of Toronto. She is the host of the Globe and Mail'
 s podcast\, Lately.\n\nDenise Hearn is a writer and applied researcher who
  advises governments\, financial institutions\, companies\, and nonprofits
  on antitrust\, economic policy\, and new economic thinking. She is curren
 tly a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investm
 ent\, a joint center of Columbia University Law School and Columbia Climat
 e School. Denise co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the De
 ath of Competition – named one of the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2018.
  Her writing has been translated into 10 languages and featured in major p
 ublications globally. She currently authors the Embodied Economics newslet
 ter. Denise has an MBA from the Oxford SaĂŻd Business School and a BA in In
 ternational Studies from Baylor University.\n\nThe Host\n\nNam Kiwanuka is
  an award-winning journalist and is the co-host and producer of The Agenda
  with Steve Paikin and host of TVO’s latest project\, The Thread with Nam 
 Kiwanuka. She also contributes columns to TVO.org and has been published i
 n the Globe & Mail\, Jane magazine\, the Toronto Star\, Chatelaine and Rea
 der’s Digest. She has moderated conversations with Jack Dorsey and Margare
 t Atwood\; has moderated the Ontario Leaders Debate for the Equal Pay Coal
 ition\; and has interviewed Salman Rushdie\, Esi Edugyan\, Martin Amis\, C
 olson Whitehead\, Dr. Jen Gunter and Walter Isaacson. As a public servant\
 , Nam forces on local stories and works to amplify stories that impact com
 munities throughout Ontario. She is a strong advocate for women’s healthca
 re. Kiwanuka was born in Uganda and lived in a refugee camp in Kenya befor
 e moving to London\, Ontario. Nam has worked with Sportsnet\, MuchMusic\, 
 BET and the BBC’s Focus on Africa and has volunteered with War Child\, Jou
 rnalists for Human Rights and the Canadian Red Cross. She has an indoor pl
 ant collection that rivals Allan Gardens and is on a mission to bake the p
 erfect chocolate chip cookie.\n\nThe Lectures\n\nThe 91Ö±˛Ą Max Bell Lectu
 res: Economic Ideas for a Stronger Canada is an annual Canada-wide lecture
  series that focuses each year on an economic policy challenge that impact
 s the lives of Canadians. This year we turn our attention to competition p
 olicy and spotlight writers and competition policy experts Vass Bednar and
  Denise Hearn who in their book and accompanying lectures help us think ab
 out how markets are made and remade\, the importance and limitations of pr
 esent-day competition policy\, and the need to reconsider the optimal role
  of the Canadian state in moderating corporate behaviour.\n\nCan't join us
  in Toronto? Vass and Denise will be in Vancouver on October 15 and in Mon
 treal on October 24.\n
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LOCATION:CA\, ON\, Toronto\, M5V 3X5\, TIFF Lightbox\, 350 King Street West
SUMMARY:The Big Fix: How Companies Remake Markets\, Cash In\, and Keep it H
 idden (and What to Do About It!)
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