The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, April 17, edition that Ontario Premier Doug Ford lamented Thursday that grocery store prices are sky high, but nixed the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing and slammed a pilot project for city-run grocery stores as socialist and "crazy." A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that the Manitoba government is moving to ban what it calls "predatory pricing" on groceries, though the issue has not been seen locally, after an investigation in the United States found some on-line shoppers using a third-party platform were charged different prices for the same item bought at the same time from the same seller. When asked about the proposal Thursday at an unrelated news conference, Mr. Ford said that would run contrary to a free market. "There's no better way of letting people get lower costs on no matter if it's cars or homes or groceries, than competition. That is what we believe in. That's a capitalist society, a market. The other one is socialism. Socialism does not work. You go around and dictating and overseeing every single price, no. If there's collusion on pricing, I'll go after them and tear them to shreds, but nothing beats a free market."