Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
The Perspectives Journal Podcast complements the journal and opinions content of Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy, to bring out left-wing ideas and strategy in a new and ever-evolving format. The podcast features interviews with policy experts, to dig deeper into the progressive angles of the issues affecting working-class, ordinary Canadians.
Hosted by editor-in-chief, Clement Nocos, the Perspectives Journal Podcast aims to bring forward timely analysis on issues from the multiple crises of the economy, cost-of-living and the environment, to the labour movement, as well as the state of Canadian democracy. The wide reaching breadth of this show aims to help inform policymakers and the public about approaches to today’s pressing problems that are rooted in Ed Broadbent’s Principles for Canadian Social Democracy.
Perspectives Journal also produces and features shows hosted by the Broadbent Institute’s friends and affiliates, providing a progressive platform for limited and irregular conversations that are still necessary to enliven Canada’s political discourse. The Perspectives Journal Podcast is a proud members of the Harbinger Media Network, Canada’s progressive podcast community.
Activists Make History
Activists Make History with Peggy Nash is a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal that finds the political underdogs and asks how they got started, against the odds, to fight for progressive change. Policymakers, activists and experts from underrepresented communities and backgrounds, that are typically pushed to the margins of Canadian political life, are front and centre in conversation with Peggy Nash, who has been a union activist, a feminist advocate, and a Member of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons for nearly a decade.
Reflecting on these experiences as a political outsider, and in conversation with other like-minded outsiders that take our struggles into the halls of power, Activists Make History aims to show how we can win a better world through elected office. Activists Make History is only made possible by the generous contribution of Unifor.
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
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 countries, we kicked off this season asking what’s behind this narrative, who’s to blame, and what the working-class is doing to fix this problem.
While the mainstream media casts blame on governments, there isn’t much direct criticism for the companies and industries actually exploiting these migrant workers. Also absent from the mainstream narratives on immigration are the voices of labour unions, and migrant workers themselves.
The Perspectives Journal Podcast spoke with Pablo Godoy, Regional Director, Western Provinces and Emerging Sectors for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Canada (UFCW Canada) on how the temporary foreign workers program has come to be so problematic, what needs to be done to fix Canada’s immigration system, and what labour is doing to act now while the federal government and industries sit on their hands, and let anti-immigrant sentiment ferment.
See also:
- Broadbent Fellow Ethel Tungohan's work on 'Care Activism' that shows how migrant care workers are organizing for a better care economy, featured in Perspectives Journal.
- The latest story from PressProgress' Labour Reporting Intern, Nadia Khan, on how Wage Inequality for Racialized Workers in Canada Reflects Lower Union Representation.
- Remarks by Simran Dhunna, an organizer from the Naujawan Support Network, speaking at the Broadbent Institute's 2024 Progress Summit on how migrant workers are organizing against wage theft and exploitation.
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