When CNN asked me to score the big economic policy speeches this week by Trump and Harris, I decided not to grade against a curve, but rather to simply state what I saw.

Happy almost Labour Day! The great unsung story since 2019 is --surprise!-- upward mobility! You'd never know it from news coverage, but the # of poorly paid jobs fell as workers in high-paid jobs grew, *and* inflation fell! Part 2 of my 3 part series thestar.com/business/opini…

Why Canada will see wage growth and better jobs into 2025 — without triggering inflation thestar.com/business/opini… My last column in a three part series on wage growth and inflation for @torontostar. You couldn't have a better set-up for Labour Day 2024!

🚨BREAKING🚨 10,000 hotel workers across the continental USA and Hawaii are on strike 📢 We will not accept painful workloads that are breaking our bodies or jobs that can’t support our families. Enough is enough.

Happy Labour Day! Really! We're so primed for the bad news and who's being screwed by whom. Take a quick tour of the good news and how much of it there is. Come for the wage rate; stay for the uplift.

As Ontario's new Minister of Education does her back-to-school photo op in a school library, don't forget that the Ford Government eliminated protected funding for school libraries and library staff earlier this year. They also cut funding for public libraries in half in 2019.

On this Labour Day, for those in the back... Front the lips of the late, great Barbara Ehrenreich. RIP

Be one of these people. #LabourDay2024

Just in time for #LabourDay2024 ... oh, and the Bank of Canada rate announcement (Wednesday): What's the relationship between wage growth (what we all want for ourselves) and inflation (what nobody wants)? A 3-part series guaranteed to surprise you.

Happy Labor Day.

The Savannah Bananas race babies between innings. And it’s INCREDIBLE 😂

We are at the wage catch up phase of this inflation episode in many countries. Workers are fighting to restore their living standards. Wage increases are not the cause but the consequence of sellers‘ inflation. For the Canadian case read Armine Yalnizyan thestar.com/business/opini…

Truth. Just the facts, ma'am, as I documented in April thestar.com/business/opini… 6 operators facing a $500M class action lawsuit for gross negligence. 5 of them getting billions in renewed/expanded long term care contracts. (The 6th sold out)

Bank of Canada: "The slack in the labour market is expected to slow wage growth, which remains elevated relative to productivity." IMHO, productivity is not the right metric. The reason wage growth remains elevated is that the job market is transforming. Is this a bad thing? No.

Incredible reporting from Clarrie Feinstein: soaring insolvencies among Ontario's developers mean a growing supply gap in new builds, buyers losing everything and a looming wave of mergers and acquisitions. Caution: The big players *will* get much bigger. thestar.com/real-estate/mo…

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how journalism could and should cover grievance politics. By the talented Shannon Proudfoot Justin Trudeau and the angry steelworker is a perfect miniature of the moment /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/opini…