A New Economic Turning Point with Armine Yalnizyan
Leading economist Armine Yalnizyan discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons to be learned.
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Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley
Broadbent Fellow Brendan Haley shows why social democrats need to platform their own climate policy alternatives to market solutions.
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Challenging Corporate Power to fix Affordability with Jim Stanford
Jim Stanford talks through the shortcomings of Canadian federal policies in easing the cost of living crisis and shows how organized labour is supporting the working-class.
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Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
Brett Christophers’ book, ‘The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet,’ argues why the energy transition can’t be left to the market.
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Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada’s Immigration System with Pablo Godoy
While the mainstream media casts blame on governments, there isn’t much direct criticism for the companies and industries actually exploiting these migrant workers.
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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A Progressive Solution to Canada’s “Productivity” Crisis with Angella MacEwen
Highlighting the power of human and social capital, Angella MacEwen offers an alternative path to boosting Canadian productivity.
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Private Equity and Health Care: Should Canadians be concerned?
An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corporate practice of medicine.
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Defending Workers from Inflation, AI and the Affordability Crisis with Kaylie Tiessen
Facing the increasing risk presented by AI amid crises, Unifor’s research department has been on the frontlines developing new strategies to defend workers against precarity.
