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Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy

Broadbent Institute

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

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37:24

Class & Climate: Green Industrial Policy with Jim...

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2025/03/28

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-ter...

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26:01

Activists Make History: Democracy in Action with...

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2025/03/26

Josel Gerardo is a young activist and shares how she is driving democratic engagement in the Filipino-Canadian community. In this episode of Activists Make History, Peggy Nash sits down with Josel Angelica Gerardo to explore her journey as a community organizer and advocate for Filipino-Canadian political engagement. From growing up in the Philippines while her mother worked in Canada to navigating life as a newcomer, Josel shares how these experiences shaped her commitment to grassroots acti...

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21:15

A Better Way Forward with Liliana Camacho

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2025/03/12

Liliana Camacho explains that while rising costs are squeezing businesses, increasing wages and capping rent are not the problem—they’re actually part of the solution. Even Canadian businesses know that low wages and the high cost of housing are two big factors in the cost-of-living crisis, and are hurting customers and business itself. Liliana Camacho, economist at the Better Way Alliance, argues that while rising costs are squeezing businesses, increasing wages and capping rent are not the ...

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30:04

Activists Make History: Campaigning for Progress with...

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2025/02/24

The first-time candidate for Parkdale–High Park says progressive campaigning can be the antidote for despair. In this episode of Activists Make History, Peggy Nash sits down with Alexa Gilmour, Ontario NDP candidate for Parkdale–High Park, to learn about her journey as a first-time candidate in the 2025 Ontario election. Alexa shares what inspired her to run, the challenges of stepping into electoral politics, and the lessons she’s learned on the campaign trail. From mobilizing grassroots ini...

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35:21

Industrial Policy after Neoliberalism with D.T. Cochrane

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2025/01/24

For decades, social democrats have championed industrial policy, prioritizing the governance of the economy and market regulation as a way to build a more just and democratic society. But as a new era of neoliberalism — or post-neoliberalism — dawns, economist D.T. Cochrane sees Canada at a crossroads, in urgent need of a renewed vision of industrial policy.The Canadian Labour Congress’s senior economist points to the shortcomings of Canada’s carbon tax and tells us what the future of the Can...

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50:06

Activists Make History: Meeting the Moment with Lana...

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2025/01/17

Unifor president Lana Payne explains what’s at stake for Canadian workers in response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats and how unions are adapting to meet the moment.In this episode of Activists Make History, a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal, we sit down with Lana Payne, president of Unifor and a trailblazer in Canada’s labour movement. Payne shares her remarkable journey from union halls in Newfoundland to leading Canada’s largest private-sector union, fighting for workers ever...

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32:38

Power for the Public with Edgardo Sepulveda

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2024/12/16

Earlier this fall, The Alberta Federation of Labour released a new report entitled Power in the Public Interest: Re-regulation and increased public ownership in Alberta’s electricity sector. A headline from a press release of the report reads: “Albertans have overpaid $24 billion for electricity since 2001.” This is long before the interruptions and constraints caused by more recent inflation or long before any carbon taxes were implemented, but the report points to the province’s deregulated...

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27:11

Dude, Where's my Bus? with Nate Wallace

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2024/12/06

In a joint statement by Environmental Defence Canada released on October 28th at the Transit for Tomorrow Summit in Ottawa, a number of mayors and municipal representatives from cities across Canada, public transit activist groups and transit agencies like the STM in Montreal, declared:“Transit is the most powerful method of tackling traffic congestion. It is the lifeblood of economic growth in our biggest cities. It is a solution to the rising cost of living. It helps us reduce carbon emissi...

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27:11

Dude, Where's by Bus? with Nate Wallace

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2024/12/06

In a joint statement by Environmental Defence Canada released on October 28th at the Transit for Tomorrow Summit in Ottawa, a number of mayors and municipal representatives from cities across Canada, public transit activist groups and transit agencies like the STM in Montreal, declared:“Transit is the most powerful method of tackling traffic congestion. It is the lifeblood of economic growth in our biggest cities. It is a solution to the rising cost of living. It helps us reduce carbon ...

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35:44

Neoliberalism’s Undead with Alex Himelfarb

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2024/11/29

Alex Himelfarb argues that neoliberalism – or “capitalism with the gloves off” – has become embedded in the fabric of Canadian government and society, and has not yet died off despite its reckoning.Neoliberalism is not dead, according to former Clerk of the Privy Council and Broadbent Institute research fellow Alex Himelfarb. The ideology that pervades government and society in Canada and around the world is also facing a severe crisis and backlash – one that could give way to far-right fasci...

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30:48

Activists Make History: Winning Renters’ Rights with...

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2024/11/26

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 become more commonplace. For Chiara Padovani, a social worker, organizer for the York South-Weston Tenant Union, and former Toronto City Council ...

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26:56

Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana...

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2024/11/18

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 advancements in other forms of policy supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, Canadian policymakers have failed to advance necessary records of trans death...

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32:47

The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with...

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2024/11/13

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 celebrated by some as a welcome and necessary step forward.However, Marc-André Gagnon, Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Admin...

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27:18

Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart...

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2024/11/04

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 Perspectives Journal, Kimelman shares the concerns of the warehouse workers and the dangerous conditions they faced. The Mississauga warehouse u...

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Activists Make History - Series Preview

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2024/10/30

'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 Activists Make History, she'll speak with activists, elected officials, political experts and leaders who've been there and done that, showing how ordinary ...

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26:23

Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada...

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2024/10/16

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 Almost, Professor of Nursing at Queen’s University and author of the CFNU report spoke with the Perspectives Journal Podcast about how, in the end, p...

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17:59

Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas...

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2024/10/07

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 housing supply, Xuereb draws attention to a lesser discussed issue within the broader debates in Canadian housing: financialization. Without tackling f...

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40:08

Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah...

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2024/10/01

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 Trap: How Professional Service Firms Hook Governments and Undermine Democracy, Hurl and Werner’s latest book, makes the case that the issue is much de...

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23:18

Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians?...

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2024/09/17

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 their main climate policy plank, they’ve been put on the back foot.In Europe, for instance, Green and Liberal parties have suffered major setbacks i...

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33:53

Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing...

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2024/09/04

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 ...

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