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
Class & Climate: Green Industrial Policy with Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
The climate crisis overlaps with the cost-of-living crisis, amid the US tariff threat. As our fossil fuel dependence exposes us to inflation and trade threats from the US, the labour and climate movements are uniting to demand more for working-class Canadians. Jim Stanford, economist and director of the Centre for Future Work and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior researcher Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood argue that green industrial strategy can make life more affordable in the long-term, and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels while charting an independent economic course for Canada.
This is the first episode of Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, a short series from the Perspectives Journal and the Green Economy Network mapping how climate action can deliver jobs and long-term affordability for workers — while debunking myths that these goals are a zero-sum trade-off with a clean environment. In this episode, Mertins-Kirkwood and Stanford define what green industrial policy is and explain why it’s having a renaissance in the middle of the Trump trade war.
Notes
- The Green Economy Network, "Our Common Platform", n.d., https://greeneconomynet.ca/common-platform/.
- Jim Stanford, "Canada Needs a New National Policy", Centre for Future Work, Feb. 23, 2025. https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/02/03/canada-needs-a-new-national-policy/
- Jim Standford, "New Report Shows Speculative Oil Markets Drove Inflation Crisis — And It’s Poised to Happen Again", Centre for Future Work, March 19, 2025.
- Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Marc Lee, "A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs", CCPA, Feb. 3, 2025. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/a-dozen-radical-responses-to-trumps-economic-warfare-that-go-beyond-canadian-counter-tariffs/
- Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, "Ten Trump-proof nation-building projects for a strong, independent Canada", CCPA, Feb. 25, 2025. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/ten-trump-proof-nation-building-projects-for-a-strong-independent-canada/
