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U.S. President Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on most imports from Canada will cause severe economic dislocation across Canada. Hopefully, a combination of negotiations backed by counter-measures announced by Canada will succeed in removing the tariffs in coming months. However, Trump’s actions have permanently damaged the credibility of any Canadian economic strategy based on continental free trade. In this commentary, originally published in the Toronto Star, Centre for Future Work Director Jim Stanford argues Canada needs to develop a new ‘National Policy’: one focused first and foremost on developing Canadian industries and capacities....

Renewable Energy, Good Jobs To achieve a net-zero energy economy, Canada must do more to de-carbonize its electricity profile. To do so, significant public investments in renewable energy and grid integration will be required. We call on the federal government to inves

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Canadian governments could take advantage of their access to cheaper borrowing and patient capital to bring power generation back into the democratic control. Public ownership of generation and transmission would accelerate deployment of low carbon energy sources according to social and ecological need, not private profit.

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The European far right’s pivot to attacking green policies shows why Canada needs a climate change approach that centres the interests of working people.

Canada's largest cities come together for a "Joint Declaration", calling on the federal government to work with local and provincial governments to address the funding crisis facing the country’s largest transit agencies.

The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Isabella Weber, demonstrating how economic shocks and corporate profits have affected our affordability crisis. From gas to groceries, this lecture provides valuable context and a policy toolkit for helping ordinary Canadians through economic crisis.

As workers and as citizens, we have the right to demand better. We urge you to read this report, share it widely, and join us in the fight for an electricity system that serves the public interest.

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? Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives focusing on international trade and climate change policy in Canada, sat down with the Perspectives Journal Podcast at the 2024 Progress Summit in April to discuss Canada’s industrial policy vision.

After a long summer break for the Perspectives Journal Podcast, we’re back and with the problematic Temporary Foreign Workers Program in the news, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Canada and other Western countries, we kicked off this season asking what’s behind this narrative, who’s to blame, and what the working-class is doing to fix this problem.

Building It Green is a national training program to strengthen the construction industry’s ability to support journeypersons, apprentices, and trades instructors as they meet the challenge of a net-zero future and the challenges posed by climate change.

A conversation with scholar Matt Huber on climate strategy and class politics.

Last fall, municipal and transit-sector leaders issued a joint declaration calling on the federal government to fix our broken public transit funding model. So far, they’ve been ignored.

Find out how the government can help Canada double its public transit ridership by 2035 and reduce emissions by 65 million tons.

Public Transit, Good Jobs The Green Economy Network (GEN) has a comprehensive plan to address the current needs of public transit systems across the country and develop high speed rail travel between the nation’s most populous urban centres and along its busiest routes

The Broadbent Institute is Canada’s preeminent social democratic think-tank, founded in 2011 by Ed Broadbent, and guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy.

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Perspectives is a journal for political economy and strategy for building a world that is just and equitable. Guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy, the journal refines analysis and progressive inquiry of political economy, public policy, history, and social movements, to bring them into public debates and political fora.

Fraser has argued that much scholarship in political science and democratic theory on these issues is hampered by “politicism”: an inclination to view the political in separation from other social spheres, which fails to appreciate the structural nature of contemporary crises. Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised, however it needs to be situated within a broader understanding of the social totality to understand how it is affected by crisis dynamics in other spheres and how it might contribute to attenuating, or resolving, these.

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