Kian Malekanian

Kian Malekanian is a Toronto-based writer with North99.

Canada’s biggest banks refuse to cut credit card interest despite making $46.5 billion in profit last year

Big Six banks signal that profitability will not be sacrificed for relief

Kenney opposed corporate bailouts. Now he’s giving $1.5 billion to a company that made $4.4 billion in profit last year

Kenney has become the very sort of politician he derided a few years ago

Kenney blames Alberta’s top doctor for his decision to lay off 26,000 education workers

Thousands of education assistants, teachers to be laid off by May

New poll shows majority of Canadians oppose banks profiting off mortgage deferrals

Jason Kenney fires 20,000 education workers in the midst of COVID-19

UCP government forces mass lay-offs, uploads costs to federal government

Nearly 1 million Canadians call for rental, mortgage freeze during COVID-19

Advocacy groups send joint letter to federal, provincial governments

FACT CHECK: Ford’s promised $17 billion for COVID-19 is actually $4 billion

Roughly $13 billion of aid package is not new spending

During WW2, Corporate Profiteering Was Curbed. Does Covid-19 Require the Same Response?

An excess profits tax could deter corporations from exploiting crises for profit

Canadians are outraged over banks profiting from COVID-19 mortgage deferrals

Canadians are demanding their governments implement a rent freeze