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Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North: E.A. Partridge, The Great BuilderA pioneer of Canadian prairie socialism, E.A. Partridge was a radical farmer who organized Saskatchewan grain growers in the face of rampant price fixing. The founder of the 'Grain Growers' Grain Company' cooperative and publisher of the Grain Growers' Guide, Partridge was a major player in the history of Canadian social democracy. Learn about his "Partridge plan" and the social democratic roots of western Canadian alienation on this episode of Social Democrats of the North.--Social Democrats of the North: Canadian Visions for Justice & Equality from Confederation to the Quiet Revolution is a...
2025-12-1922 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North: J.S. Woodsworth, A Man of FaithOne of the most iconic socialists in Canadian history, most on the Canadian left may likely identify J.S. Woodsworth as Canada's first social democrat. Woodsworth was an organizer of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, founded in 1932. This episode of Social Democrats of the North reflects on the Social Gospel that saw Jesus as a radical socialist, the farmers and labour movements that struggled for power over the Canadian Prairies, and their expansion into a national social democratic movement.--Social Democrats of the North: Canadian Visions...
2025-12-0121 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North: Francis Marion Beynon, Feminist FirebrandWhat was the place of feminism in early Canadian social democracy? This episode looks at one of the first feminist social democrats in Canadian history: Francis Marion Beynon. Her work as journalist in Winnipeg in the early 1900s was critical for pointing out how exploitation wasn’t just about workers and bosses — it was also about the way that women were being treated by their husbands at home. --Social Democrats of the North: Canadian Visions for Justice & Equality from Confederation to the Quiet Revolution is a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal by Broadbent Resea...
2025-11-1716 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North: Olivar Asselin, The Radical JournalistIn the early 20th century, Montreal was a hotbed of radical thinking on working-class politics and Quebec’s place in Canada. Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal's most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec's working poor. Named, in-part, after Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Asselin foray into the military was more misguided than his namesake's campaigns for liberation, but still established himself as a social democratic force in Quebec's nationalist politics.--Social Democrats of the North: Canadian Visions for Justice & Equality from Con...
2025-10-3117 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North - Phillips Thompson: Labor Reform SongsterThe prolific satirist-turned-labour-leader penned the first full account of working-class struggles in 19th century Canada.Shortly after Confederation, Canadian cities were teeming with impoverished workers and rapid industrialization. While socialist movements were taking shape across Europe, Phillips Thompson became a leading voice for Canadian labour in Southwestern Ontario. Writing sharp political satire under the pen name “Jimuel Briggs,” Thompson gained recognition as one of Canada’s earliest labour journalists, and a spokesperson for the Knights of Labor, North America’s largest labour organization of the late 19th century. His 1887 book The Politics of Labor was one of th...
2025-10-1516 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracySocial Democrats of the North - Médéric Lanctôt: Canada's First Social DemocratIt’s 1867 and Canada has just officially separated itself from Great Britain and become its own country. But, are there any social democrats around? In this episode, we meet Médéric Lanctôt - the journalist, politician, and union leader from Montreal who can be considered to be Canada’s first social democrat. From working with the homeless to organizing a federation of unions, learn about how Lanctôt fought back against the political and economic elites of his time who were selfishly lining their own pockets while thousands starved in the streets.--Abo...
2025-10-0115 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracyNeoliberalism’s Undead with Alex HimelfarbAlex Himelfarb argues that neoliberalism – or “capitalism with the gloves off” – has become embedded in the fabric of Canadian government and society, and has not yet died off despite its reckoning.Neoliberalism is not dead, according to former Clerk of the Privy Council and Broadbent Institute research fellow Alex Himelfarb. The ideology that pervades government and society in Canada and around the world is also facing a severe crisis and backlash – one that could give way to far-right fascist forces if progressives cannot build an alternative.From explaining inequality, to the reckoning of the left w...
2024-11-2935 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracyThe Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy WithersThe housing crisis is apparent for most ordinary Canadians, especially for those paying rents and mortgages that feel increasingly out of reach. Recent data shows that among wealthy countries, Canada's housing cost increases have seen the fastest decoupling from income growth, and with that accelerated price inflation, according to Jeremy Withers, a new class of housing investors has grown.According to the data, more and more new housing is being purchased without the intention of being the home that they buyer lives in. This trend has increased over time, all across Canada, and investors have become a...
2024-05-2837 min
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracyCompetition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries ActEarlier this fall, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, with the aim of jump starting construction of purpose built rental homes with a GST rebate on these kinds of projects, and increasing competition in the grocery industry by strengthening the federal Competition Bureau, upgrading its ability to investigate companies and closing loopholes in the merger approval process that may contribute to rising prices and profits.The federal NDP doesn't think this bill has gone far enough and have requested a number of amendments to the first draft to...
2023-12-2233 min
Harbinger ShowcaseForging Unity in a Time of Division w/ the Broadbent Institute (Harbinger Society Presents ep50)The 2023 Progress Summit conference, happening March 8-10 in Ottawa, is an ambitious event bringing together hundreds of socialists, social democrats, leftists, NGOs, labour organizers and rank and file union members from around the country, featuring compelling speakers and big ideas from around the world.The annual Summit is convened by the Broadbent Institute, an influential left-ish think tank that works on movement building around income inequality, a green economy and democratic renewal, creating a space for building stronger understanding and solidarity across a wide range of movements....
2023-03-0636 minHarbinger ShowcaseForging Unity in a Time of Division w/ the Broadbent Institute (Harbinger Society Presents ep50)The 2023 Progress Summit conference, happening March 8-10 in Ottawa, is an ambitious event bringing together hundreds of socialists, social democrats, leftists, NGOs, labour organizers and rank and file union members from around the country, featuring compelling speakers and big ideas from around the world.The annual Summit is convened by the Broadbent Institute, an influential left-ish think tank that works on movement building around income inequality, a green economy and democratic renewal, creating a space for building stronger understanding and solidarity across a wide range of movements....
2023-03-0636 min
Harbinger Society PresentsForging Unity in a Time of Division (w/ the Broadbent Institute)The 2023 Progress Summit conference, happening March 8-10 in Ottawa, is an ambitious event bringing together hundreds of socialists, social democrats, leftists, NGOs, labour organizers and rank and file union members from around the country, featuring compelling speakers and big ideas from around the world.The annual Summit is convened by the Broadbent Institute, an influential left-ish think tank that works on movement building around income inequality, a green economy and democratic renewal, creating a space for building stronger understanding and solidarity across a wide range of movements....
2023-03-0636 min
Bill Kelly ShowOnt. not ruling out privatization to help ER crisis, Remembering Hamilton legend Gord Lewis & Still no regulation for Online Haters!The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s health minister is not ruling out privatization as the government looks at ways to deal with a major staff shortage straining hospitals across the province.Sylvia Jones said the government is considering many ideas in an effort to keep emergency departments from closing.Should we be concerned?GUEST: Clement Nocos, Director of Policy with the Broadbent Institute-He was a man who wrote the music and performed at the concerts — the wild, manic wonderful concerts — that many people, especially Hamilt...
2022-08-1150 min
habibti pleaseEpisode 32 - The Jakarta Method with Vincent Bevins (Premium Teaser)The austerity measures that were first implemented during the pandemic will not ease post-pandemic. Global vaccine apartheid continues to exist and it seems that only those in North America with relations outside of North America or to communities. It feels eerily familiar for people who straddle worlds to be aware that “back to normal” means back to normal for people completely detached from the global reality of how COVID continues to ravage people outside of the imperial core. This episode takes a look at how the world we all now came to be. One where vacci...
2021-06-0808 min