A New Economic Turning Point with Armine Yalnizyan
Leading economist Armine Yalnizyan discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons to be learned.
Labour
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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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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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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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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.
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Wellness and the Working-Class: The Artifice of Benefits under Capitalism
Wellness Spending Accounts (WSAs) first-and-foremost enhance the “bottom line” at the expense of the working-class.
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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?
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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen
In today’s apparently well-performing capitalist economy, working-class ordinary Canadians aren’t feeling like they live in a “Good Society” and acutely feel these economic pressures.
