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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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26:20

Social Democrats of the North: League for Social...

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2026/02/18

The League for Social Reconstruction was a group of socialist thinkers, brought together by the crisis of the Great Depression, that laid the intellectual foundations for modern Canadian social democracy. Through the crisis of the Great Depression, Canadian socialist intellectuals came together as 'The League for Social Reconstruction' to lay out the political and economic ideas that would become the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the 1933 Regina Manifesto; the party's policy progra...

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35:05

Activists Make History: Winning for Working People...

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2026/02/10

The longshoreman and leadership hopeful shares his vision for Canada's NDP as the party of workers and everyday people. SUBSCRIBE to the Perspectives Journal Podcast and Activists Make History for previous interviews with the 2026 NDP leadership race candidates. Rob Ashton is a trade unionist, longshoreman, and candidate running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. He has spent more than three decades working on Canada’s docks and in the labour movement, rising through the ranks of the I...

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31:22

Activists Make History: A New Era for the NDP with...

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2026/02/04

The NDP leadership hopeful reflects on her roots in student organizing to usher in a new era for progressive organizing in the federal NDP. SUBSCRIBE to the Perspectives Journal Podcast and Activists Make History for previous and upcoming interviews with the 2026 NDP leadership race candidates. Tanille Johnston is a social worker, city councilor, and candidate running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. A member of the We Wai Kai First Nation, she has led an impactful career in Indigeno...

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20:42

Social Democrats of the North: Agnes Macphail,...

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2026/02/03

Rather than treating feminism and social democracy as separate projects, Agnes Macphail understood both as essential to building a more democratic and equal society. A committed social democrat, Agnes Macphail was Canada’s first woman elected to Parliament and a leader whose politics were shaped by a lifelong opposition to patriarchy and sexism. Over two decades in the House of Commons, she used her parliamentary career to champion causes including peace, prison reform, progressive taxation, ...

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32:38

Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with Patriotic...

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2026/01/28

Even the rich agree: extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy. In a new survey conducted by Patriotic Millionaires of millionaires and billionaires across G20 countries, 65% agree that extreme wealth is a threat to democracy. Yet, in front of billionaires on the Davos stage of the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Mark Carney touts tax cuts and subsidies for AI data centres while mourning the end of the liberal world order and democratic backsliding. On the other hand, NDP leader...

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35:36

Activists Make History: Big Tent Organizing with...

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2026/01/27

Heather McPherson is channeling value-driven politics in her campaign for NDP leadership. SUBSCRIBE to the Perspectives Journal Podcast and Activists Make History for previous and upcoming interviews with the 2026 NDP leadership race candidates. Since 2019, Heather McPherson has been Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, securing a once-contentious parliamentary seat through three federal elections. Raised in a working-class home in Edmonton, she spent more than 15 years working with ...

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31:57

Activists Make History: From the Ground Up with Tony...

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2026/01/24

Tony McQuail is channeling decades of grassroots activism to platform rural issues and a green progressive vision for the federal NDP. Stay tuned for future episodes with other candidates in the 2026 NDP leadership race. Tony McQuail is an organic farmer and candidate running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. A lifelong activist, he has run for office multiple times, served on the Huron County Board of Education, and spent decades organizing around sustainable farming, rural issues, a...

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33:55

Activists Make History: Stories that Change the World...

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2026/01/21

Avi Lewis shares how his NDP leadership campaign is connecting social movements for a common political front. Avi Lewis is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and candidate running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. Born in Toronto, he built a career telling stories about movements for economic and social justice, from worker-run enterprises to global climate campaigns. On this episode of Activists Make History, host Peggy Nash talks to Lewis about his efforts connecting social moveme...

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24:26

Social Democrats of the North: William Irvine, The...

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2026/01/15

This Scottish-born preacher turned politician helped lay the foundation for early social democratic electoral success in Alberta and across Canada. William Irvine’s life and career reflects the power of persistence in struggles. Born to a working-class familyin the Shetland Islands, Irvine immigrated to Canada to lead a Unitarian church congregation in Alberta. After arriving in Calgary in 1916, he was swept up by the social gospel movement of the time. He ran for political office with the La...

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22:45

Social Democrats of the North: E.A. Partridge, The...

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2025/12/19

A pioneer of Canadian prairie socialism, E.A. Partridge was a radical farmer who organized Saskatchewan grain growers in the face of rampant price fixing. The founder of the 'Grain Growers' Grain Company' cooperative and publisher of the Grain Growers' Guide, Partridge was a major player in the history of Canadian social democracy. Learn about his "Partridge plan" and the social democratic roots of western Canadian alienation on this episode of Social Democrats of the North. -- Social Democra...

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21:58

Social Democrats of the North: J.S. Woodsworth, A Man...

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2025/12/01

One of the most iconic socialists in Canadian history, most on the Canadian left may likely identify J.S. Woodsworth as Canada's first social democrat. Woodsworth was an organizer of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, founded in 1932. This episode of Social Democrats of the North reflects on the Social Gospel that saw Jesus as a radical socialist, the farmers and labour movements that struggled for power over the Canadian Prairie...

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53:55

Activists Make History: Women United — Toronto Book...

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2025/11/21

The new book by Peggy Nash & Julie White tells the untold stories of dozens of women leaders in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union. In November 2025, Between the Lines books published Women United: Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union by Peggy Nash and Julie White. The co-authors were interviewed by Tricia Wilson, Director of Equity and Racial Justice at Unifor, at their November 13 book launch in Toronto. About Women United: Based on the firstha...

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Social Democrats of the North: Francis Marion Beynon,...

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2025/11/17

What was the place of feminism in early Canadian social democracy? This episode looks at one of the first feminist social democrats in Canadian history: Francis Marion Beynon. Her work as journalist in Winnipeg in the early 1900s was critical for pointing out how exploitation wasn’t just about workers and bosses — it was also about the way that women were being treated by their husbands at home. -- Social Democrats of the North: Canadian Visions for Justice & Equality from Confedera...

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Social Democrats of the North: Olivar Asselin, The...

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2025/10/31

In the early 20th century, Montreal was a hotbed of radical thinking on working-class politics and Quebec’s place in Canada. Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal's most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec's working poor. Named, in-part, after Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Asselin foray into the military was more misguided than his namesake's campaigns for liberation, but still establishe...

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Activists Make History: Draw the Line with Atiya Jaffar

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2025/10/20

The 350 Canada Campaigns Manager collaborated with climate, labour, Indigenous, and social justice movements to draw the line against fossil fuel expansion. On September 20, 2025, thousands of Canadians took to the streets uniting climate justice, migrant justice, economic justice, Indigenous rights, and anti-war movements, calling for government action. Helping coordinate the more than 70 community demonstrations across Canada was Atiya Jaffar, National Campaigns Manager at 350 Canada. Activ...

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Social Democrats of the North - Phillips Thompson:...

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2025/10/15

The prolific satirist-turned-labour-leader penned the first full account of working-class struggles in 19th century Canada. Shortly after Confederation, Canadian cities were teeming with impoverished workers and rapid industrialization. While socialist movements were taking shape across Europe, Phillips Thompson became a leading voice for Canadian labour in Southwestern Ontario. Writing sharp political satire under the pen name “Jimuel Briggs,” Thompson gained recognition as one of Canada’s e...

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22:04

On Fascism with Jon Weier

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2025/10/10

In September 2025 the Broadbent Institute joined left–wing think tanks from Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain to support the establishment of a global network of think tanks that produce rigorous analysis, foster data-driven debate, and contribute to the search for proposals in defense of democracy. In the declarative agreement behind the establishment of the new Red Internacional de Pensamiento Democratico or International Network of Democratic Thought, progressive civil soc...

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Social Democrats of the North - Médéric Lanctôt:...

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2025/10/01

It’s 1867 and Canada has just officially separated itself from Great Britain and become its own country. But, are there any social democrats around? In this episode, we meet Médéric Lanctôt - the journalist, politician, and union leader from Montreal who can be considered to be Canada’s first social democrat. From working with the homeless to organizing a federation of unions, learn about how Lanctôt fought back against the political and economic elites of his time who were selfishly lining t...

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Carney and the Calgary School with Mack Penner

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2025/09/18

In the the Summer 2025 issue of Perspectives Journal, University of Calgary post doc and Parkland Institute board member Mack Penner wrote ‘Carney and the Calgary School: or, Passive Revolution and Canada’s Social State in the Neoliberal Era,’ tracing the origins of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic thinking to the Calgary School. The Calgary School is described as an informal grouping of conservative academics that played an active and significant role in Canadian politics during the 199...

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Activists Make History: Holding the Line with Wesley...

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2025/09/16

Peggy Nash chats with Air Canada flight attendants union leader Wesley Lesosky about the recent strike and the fight for fair pay in the airline industry. In August 2025, Air Canada flight attendants made headlines for striking when the employer left the bargaining table and for refusing to follow back-to-work orders issued by the Carney government at the behest of business. Leading the charge was Wesley Lesosky, a steadfast union leader and president of the CUPE Air Canada component. From hi...

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