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 tha ...
…
continue reading
'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 Parliament in Canada's House of Commons, Nash knows what it's like to start from scratch against the odds. In Activist…
…
continue reading
1
Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost
26:23
26:23
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
26:23
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 Opening the black box: Unpacking the use of nursing agencies in Canada reveals just how much this reliance on nursing agencies has cost. Dr. Joan Al…
…
continue reading
1
Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb
17:59
17:59
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
17:59
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 Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of a new report entitled, How tax breaks are worsening Canada's housing affordability crisis. Outside of calls to build hous…
…
continue reading
1
Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah Werner
40:08
40:08
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
40:08
When public services malfunction, such as the Phoenix Pay scandal or the failure of the pandemic travel ArriveCan app occur, it is easy to point the finger at the government and the political party in power. As Chris Hurl and Leah Werner describe in our latest Perspectives Journal podcast episode, there is some truth to this, but The Consulting Tra…
…
continue reading
1
Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley
23:18
23:18
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
23:18
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-induced inflation and affordability crisis. For the centrist regimes that pushed for this market-mechanism as …
…
continue reading
1
Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada's Immigration System with Pablo Godoy
33:53
33:53
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
33:53
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 f…
…
continue reading
1
Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber
50:05
50:05
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
50:05
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. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left’s foremost theorists on democracy and history, and often promoted the ide…
…
continue reading
1
The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers
37:49
37:49
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
37:49
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 fastest decoupling from income growth, and with that accelerated price inflation, according to Jeremy Withers, …
…
continue reading
1
Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
13:16
13:16
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
13:16
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 dominance of market mechanisms, ultimately to the working-class the tools to build a just and equal economic democracy…
…
continue reading
1
Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen
18:01
18:01
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
18:01
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 profits. These are the economic indicators that policymakers use to say that the economy is doing so well, and which…
…
continue reading
1
Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
51:44
51:44
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
51:44
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 Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ahead of their forthcoming co-edited special volume of th…
…
continue reading
1
Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act
33:07
33:07
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
33:07
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, and increasing competition in the grocery industry by strengthening the federal Competition Bureau, upgrading its ability…
…
continue reading
1
What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman
39:22
39:22
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
39:22
Perspectives Journal sat down with Professor Carolyn Whitzman to dive deeper into her Globe and Mail article published last August entitled Canada’s progressive parties have lost the plot on the housing crisis. This was a response to Prime Minister Trudeau’s earlier blunt statement that “housing is not federal responsibility” while ordinary Canadia…
…
continue reading
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 Canadian Labour Congress to present its updated “Common Platform”, an action plan for investments in job creation and emissions reductions in key economi…
…
continue reading
1
Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage
51:46
51:46
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
51:46
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, Jonathan Sas, and Luke Savage. The quartet of authors take you behind the scenes of the book, explaining the impe…
…
continue reading
1
Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan
25:08
25:08
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
25:08
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 summer is called Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care, published by Un…
…
continue reading
1
Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies
22:01
22:01
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
22:01
At the federal New Democratic Party’s 2023 convention held October 13-15 in Hamilton, Ontario, party membership voted unanimously for the NDP to withdraw support of the Liberal government’s Confidence and Supply Agreement, holding the minority Parliament together, if they do not deliver on a universal, comprehensive public national Pharmacare progr…
…
continue reading
1
Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent
33:21
33:21
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
33:21
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 for Equality. Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas …
…
continue reading
1
Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby
42:40
42:40
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
42:40
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 affordability crisis and public safety, the Broadbent Institute hosted British Columbia Premier David Eby for a fi…
…
continue reading
1
2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft. Armine Yalnizyan
42:32
42:32
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
42:32
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 Institute event. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left's foremost theorists on democracy and history, and of…
…
continue reading
1
Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls at Progress Summit 2023
42:02
42:02
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
42:02
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 Amazon warehouse supervisor, but was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against the company’s unsafe pan…
…
continue reading