Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies: Why We Need a New Paradigm – 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture
The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Isabella Weber, demonstrating how economic shocks and corporate profits have affected our affordability crisis. From gas to groceries, this lecture provides valuable context and a policy toolkit for helping ordinary Canadians through economic crisis.
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How Mis/Disinformation is Driving Alberta to the Right, Part 1: Understanding the Origins
Misinformation and disinformation are polarizing Alberta politics, stoking division and a reactionary shift to the right.
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“For All Mankind”: Address to the 1978 Socialist International Congress
As modern socialists we accept with pride and determination our historic and continuing struggle for liberty and equality, not simply for ourselves but for all mankind.
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From Marketing to Movement-Building: Ground Game and Community Organizing in Party Politics
It’s been said that “the ground game can only take you so far”. But what if the right kind of ground game can count for more than we realize?
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The Socialist Challenge and Beyond
“Our socialist challenge is to tackle what I have called the economic question. This fundamental question is about economic power, and who will wield it. It is about our national priorities, and who will decide them.”
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Canadian Socialism against US Domination
In 1967, responding to an open letter calling for an alliance of socialists and liberals to address growing American encroachment in Canada , Ed Broadbent argued forcefully that the two ideologies were committed to ends so radically different that cooperation on the basis of shared nationalism was both incoherent and impossible.
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The Socialist Internationalism of Ed Broadbent
For Ed Broadbent, the rights and norms of the United Nations covenants and declarations represented the practical application and sum value of social democratic principles.
Reviews
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The Scandalous Grip of Neoliberalism
Two important books from Lorimer Press highlight the insidious impact of neoliberalism on Canada’s political, social, and economic landscape, detailing its roots, devastating results, and the urgent need for democratic renewal and progressive reform.
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Home Truths: A Practical Policy Toolkit for Fixing the Housing Crisis
In ‘Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis’ Carolyn Whitzman finds opportunities for hope in outlining a path towards housing for all across Canada.
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Escaping the Consulting Trap
Chris Hurl and Leah Werner reveal the consulting industry’s hand in hollowed-out public services and draw an escape plan for Western democracies hoping to emerge from consultants’ nebulous grasp.
Perspectives Journal Podcast
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Industrial Policy after Neoliberalism with D.T. Cochrane
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.
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Activists Make History: Meeting the Moment with Lana Payne
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.
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Power for the Public with Edgardo Sepulveda
Regulatory economist and consultant Edgardo Sepulveda joins the Perspectives Journal Podcast to explain what it will take to bring power back into the public interest in Alberta.
Video
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What Makes a Good Society? With Jen Hassum
The Broadbent Institute’s Executive Director Jen Hassum explains how Ed Broadbent’s vision of the ‘Good Society’ offers a roadmap for building a more equal, inclusive and progressive Canada.
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Organizing to Win the Movement — not the Moment with LaToia Jones
LaToia Jones stays true to progressive values and organizes beyond the win or the loss to build resilient movements.
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A Progressive Toolkit to Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis
Housing expert Carolyn Whitzman chronicles the shifts in government housing policy over recent decades and shows what needs to be done to make housing accessible for all Canadians.
