A Green New Deal to Fight Trump’s Trade War
The fight against Trump’s tariffs is a chance for Canada to lead by aligning clean energy with strong communities, empowered workers, and a high-road industrial strategy that delivers for working people.
Climate Action
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Reclaiming the NDP’s Working-Class Roots Through Public Power
Public ownership of electricity has been one of the great progressive victories in Canadian history—a model that delivered high union density and good jobs for generations.
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Class & Climate: Moving Canada for Climate Action with Blandine Sebileau
Equiterre’s Sustainable Mobility Analyst shows how clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.
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Class & Climate: Union Power with Brandon Dyck – IBEW
The energy transition runs on union power. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is one of the labour unions that will generate the electricity needed to seize the potential and jobs of a just transition.
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Class & Climate: Green Industrial Policy with Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood define what green industrial policy is and explain why it’s having a renaissance in the middle of the Trump trade war.
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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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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.
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Why Canadians are Stuck Waiting for the Bus with Nate Wallace
Investment in public transit has weakened, ridership has stalled as commuters are forced to drive, and the economy loses billions in lost productivity.
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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.
