Beste Canadian Economy podcaster (2024)

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Activists Make History: Winning Renters’ Rights with Chiara Padovani 30:48

2d ago30:48

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Chiara Padovani details her political journey in organizing renters and defending tenant rights against the encroachment of for-profit interests in housing. Toronto, like other cities across Canada, has been coping with the rising housing affordability crisis as inflated rents, increased evictions, and massive real estate investment firms have beco…

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Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana Thompson 26:56

10d ago26:56

26:56

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 livelihoods, while data collection and maintenance on trans people remain lacking or incomplete. Despite adv…

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The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with Marc-André Gagnon 32:47

15d ago32:47

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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 An Act Respecting Pharmacare was recently passed in Canada. Providing the framework for universal public drug coverage in Canada, Bill C-64 has been …

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Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada with Angela Drew Kimelman 27:18

24d ago27:18

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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 warehouse in Mississauga, Ontario. In our first episode of Activists Make History, a new podcast series from Pe…

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Activists Make History - Series Preview 1:09

29d ago1:09

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'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…

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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost 26:23

1M ago26:23

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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…

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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb 17:59

2M ago17:59

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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…

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Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah Werner 40:08

2M ago40:08

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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…

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Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley 23:18

2M ago23:18

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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 …

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Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada's Immigration System with Pablo Godoy 33:53

3M ago33:53

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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…

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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber 50:05

6M ago50:05

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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…

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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers 37:49

6M ago37:49

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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, …

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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood 13:16

7M ago13:16

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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…

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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen 18:01

7M ago18:01

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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…

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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser 51:44

7M ago51:44

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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…

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Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act 33:07

11M ago33:07

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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…

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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman 39:22

11M ago39:22

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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…

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Green Industrial Policy in Canada 35:10

1y ago35:10

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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…

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Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage 51:46

1y ago51:46

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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…

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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan 25:08

1y ago25:08

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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…

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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies 22:01

1y ago22:01

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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…

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Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent 33:21

1y ago33:21

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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 …

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Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby 42:40

1y ago42:40

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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…

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2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft. Armine Yalnizyan 42:32

1+ y ago42:32

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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…

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Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls at Progress Summit 2023 42:02

1+ y ago42:02

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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…

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Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy

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Activists Make History: Winning Renters’ Rights with Chiara Padovani 30:48

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Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana Thompson 26:56

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The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with Marc-André Gagnon 32:47

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Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada with Angela Drew Kimelman 27:18

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Activists Make History - Series Preview 1:09

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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost 26:23

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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb 17:59

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Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah Werner 40:08

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Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley 23:18

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Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada's Immigration System with Pablo Godoy 33:53

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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber 50:05

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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers 37:49

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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood 13:16

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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen 18:01

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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser 51:44

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Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act 33:07

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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman 39:22

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Green Industrial Policy in Canada 35:10

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Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage 51:46

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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan 25:08

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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies 22:01

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Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent 33:21

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Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby 42:40

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2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft. Armine Yalnizyan 42:32

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Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls at Progress Summit 2023 42:02

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