Welcome to Perspectives: a Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
Perspectives is a new space for the Canadian progressive left to build on the ideas of political economy, governance and working-class political strategy.
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Seeking Social Democracy: An Interview with Ed Broadbent
“Coming back to the commitment by the state, instead, I say, we need an expansion of the role of the state through decommodification. This will lead to the real freedom of more citizens, in a way that simple political and civil rights cannot.”
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Progressive Governance in Unprecedented Times
Through the pandemic, mounting disasters induced by the climate crisis, and the as epicenter of Canada’s housing affordability crisis, BC held on to a progressive government among the provinces to lead through these crises.
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What’s Wrong with the Fraser Institute Report on Building Energy Efficiency
With extreme heat, storms, forest fires, and floods Canadians should now expect their buildings to protect them from such weather extremes and to not add to the climate problem.
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Progress vs. 2023: A Guide to the Fight Ahead – 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture
The 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Armine Yalnizyan—a leading voice on Canada’s economic scene.
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Real populists go to bat for public workers
As these brave public workers undertake one of the largest strike actions in Canadian history, we progressives need to have their backs.
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Will the Response to the US Inflation Reduction Act Reveal Canada’s Lack of Green Industrial Policy?
Steering markets towards achieving societally relevant goals is the reason to have an industrial policy in the first place. While policymakers must monitor international changes and adapt accordingly, an effective green industrial policy must be more than a short-term response to American policy actions.
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La réaction canadienne à la loi américaine sur la réduction de l’inflation (Inflation Reduction Act) mettra-t-elle en évidence l’absence de politique industrielle verte du Canada?
La politique industrielle devrait être conçue de manière à favoriser l’atteinte des objectifs sociétaux pertinents du Canada et non de manière défensive face aux événements qui se déroulent aux États-Unis.
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Sunny times are over — it’s time for progressive Canadians to own this angry era
Poilievre won’t do anything to fix these problems, of course. It is one thing to know the issues, but it is quite another to solve them.
