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.
Just Transition
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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: Building a Green Workforce with Lindsay Amundsen
Lindsay Amundsen of Canada’s Building Trades Unions explains what a just transition really means for workers—and how union-led training programs are preparing the workforce for the green economy.
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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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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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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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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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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Why is Canada lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to industrial policy, and how can industrial strategy help Canada take serious climate action?
