Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
Perspectives is a Canadian journal for political economy and social democracy by the Broadbent Institute. Our publication brings boldly left-wing ideas and inquiry into public debates and policy fora for building a Canada that is just and equitable, based on the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy.
We present commentary, long-form analysis, interviews, and other content to help inform strategists, organizers, academics, and policymakers of the theory, practice, and tactics that can be used to advance an egalitarian economy, dismantle systems of oppression, and build social movements based on justice and equality.
Episodes
24 episodes
Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana Thompson
It is important for policymakers to use evidence, like data and statistics, to make sound policy decisions. However, governments across Canada and in other places around the world continue to make policy decisions that affect trans lives and li...
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The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with Marc-André Gagnon
Despite Canada’s celebrated health care model, a lack of robust and universal drug coverage has resulted in a “fragmented system” that leaves ordinary Canadians without adequate care. Bill C-64 titled
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Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada with Angela Drew Kimelman
Walmart is notorious for its anti-union practices, pouring millions of dollars into union-busting campaigns every year. But this didn’t stop Angela Drew Kimelman, an Organizer at Unifor, from helping unionize over 800 workers at a Walmart wareh...
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Activists Make History - Series Preview
'Activists Make History' is a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal, hosted by Peggy Nash, author of 'Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected'As a union activist, feminist advocate, and former member of Parli...
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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost
Private nursing agencies are have grown in number and use amid the crises facing the healthcare sector by filling the gaps in chronic understaffing. The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions’ new report
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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb
Corporate tax breaks and loopholes in Canada have contributed heavily to the affordability crisis argues Silas Xuereb, researcher at Canadian for Tax Fairness, PhD candidate at University of Massachus...
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Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah Werner
When public services malfunction, such as the Phoenix Pay scandal or the
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Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley
The price of carbon is in the news again with Conservatives in Canada, and around the world where carbon pricing schemes exist, fuel backlash against the climate policy. Adding to their opposition to carbon pricing policy is today's profit-indu...
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Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada's Immigration System with Pablo Godoy
After a long summer break for the Perspectives Journal Podcast, we’re back! With the problematic Temporary Foreign Workers Program in the news, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Canada and other Western countrie...
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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber
The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Thursday, May 30th in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Interim Dean of Arts Amy Peng for hosting this Broadbent Institute event.<...
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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers
The housing crisis is apparent for most ordinary Canadians, especially for those paying rents and mortgages that feel increasingly out of reach. Recent data shows that among wealthy countries, Canada's housing cost increases have seen the faste...
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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
To help make Canada into a “good society,” Ed Broadbent was a major proponent of “industrial strategy” throughout the 1970s and 80s as leader of Canada’s NDP, to use this policy vision for social democratic change and challenge the domina...
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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen
In today’s apparently well-performing capitalist economy, working-class ordinary Canadians aren’t feeling like they live in a "Good Society" and acutely feel these economic pressures.Price inflation, lagging productivity, and record pro...
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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
This conversation with Nancy Fraser explores her work on the crises of capitalism, democracy, and participation. She is interviewed by Nick Vlahos, Deputy Director at the Center for Democracy Innovation, and Adrian Bua, Marie Curi...
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Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act
Earlier this fall, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, with the aim of jump starting construction of purpose built rental homes with a GST rebate on these kinds of projects,...
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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman
Perspectives Journal sat down with Professor Carolyn Whitzman to dive deeper into her Globe and Mail article published last August entitled
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Green Industrial Policy in Canada
On October 17th, 2023 the Green Economy Network, a coalition of labour, environmental, and social justice organizations working to build a green economy in Canada, held a workshop in Ottawa at the Canad...
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Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage
In this episode, we’ll take you to the book launch event of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality, held on October 22nd, 2023 at the Toronto Reference Library featuring co-authors Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele...
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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan
Perspectives Journal chats with Broadbent Institute Policy Fellow Ethel Tungohan; Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Professor of Politics at York University.Her new book released late this sum...
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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies
At the federal New Democratic Party’s 2023 convention held October 13-15 in Hamilton, Ontario, party memb...
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Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent
Perspectives spoke to Ed Broadbent, founder of the Broadbent Institute, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, and co-author of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight ...
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Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby
How does a social democratic government in British Columbia deliver on principles of justice and equality for its people? From sustainable economic development in the face of the climate crisis, to the pandemic measures, to the housing affordab...
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2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft. Armine Yalnizyan
This edition of the Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Tuesday, May 23rd at an event in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Dean of Arts Pamela Sugiman for hosting this Broadbent Inst...
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Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls at Progress Summit 2023
Chris Smalls is taking on billionaires and organizing workers for justice. Smalls is the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. Smalls was formerly an Amaz...
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