There Is No Such Thing as a #FreeMarket

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#Toronto - #REmarket

Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street.

"The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.

A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.

On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.

NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."

Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/

Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html

#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal

In the "free market" the corporations terrifically maximizes profits when the taxpayers freely subsidize the corporation. Free Market Albertans also subsidize petro and then shutter hospitals and schools for lack of taxdollars to operate the services the taxes are supposed to pay.

#AbPoli #FreeMarket #Suckers

Hàng ngàn người khó khăn tại TP.HCM phấn khởi vì chương trình Siêu thị mini 0 đồng – Tết Bính Ngọ 2026, được mua sắm miễn phí, hỗ trợ thiết thực cho cộng đồng trong dịp Tết.

#Tết2026 #Tet #FreeMarket #SiêuThịMini #HỗTrợNgườiKhóKhăn #SocialGood #Vietnam #HCM #CommunitySupport

https://vietnamnet.vn/hang-ngan-nguoi-kho-khan-that-nghiep-phan-khoi-vi-duoc-di-cho-tet-mien-phi-2486897.html

#WaPo layoffs looming as #Olympic coverage cancelled , Natalie Korach reported for #Status that "upwards of 100 newsroom layoffs" are "expected to hit the sports, metro and foreign teams hardest"

One unnamed editorial insider relayed to Brian Stelter recently that #JeffBezos kowtowing " revamp of the #Opinion section cost the Post hundreds of thousands of #subscribers and "now it looks like the staff will pay for it."

I also canceled my longstanding #subscription at the beginning of the second #Drumpf administration when grotesquely bleak & shocking #FreeMarket trumpeting editorial shifts were made, and I apparently was not alone, which has clearly put this historic and important but money hemorrhaging #DC #news outlet beholden to #billionaire #Bezos' beck & call into paper's precarious position ...

https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

"Martineau (1802 – 1876) found the workings of capitalism at odds with the professed moral principles of people in the United States. She pointed out the faults with the free enterprise system in which workers were exploited and impoverished while business owners became wealthy. She further noted that the belief that all are created equal was inconsistent with the lack of women’s rights."

A quote from a sociology class.

#HarrietMartineau #socialsciences #sociology #feminism #women #usa #freemarket #liberalism

A president who has turned against free markets, made immigration a nightmare, bashes his own judicial appointees and the Federalist Society, and now embraces the very foreign policy backed by neocons and hawks, but opposing which got him elected in the first place. Does anyone else feel kind of nostalgic for the first Donald Trump presidency, but 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 kind of?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/15/trump-first-term-nostalgia/

#DonaldTrump #freeMarket #immigration #interventionism #jurisprudence #politicalNostalgia #tariffs #USPolitics