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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice. In the Talking Points podcast, we discuss major policy and economics questions facing Canada today with CCPA economists and researchers, policy-makers, friends in the labour and social justice movement, and others.
Update frequency:
every 139 days
Average audio length:
30 minutes
English
Canada
14 episodes
since Dec. 2, 2015
episodic
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CCPA BC's analysis of the 2021 Federal and Provincial Budgets. This event took place on Zoom on April 29, 2021 as a supporter event. Due to a technical issue the recording starts a few minutes into the event. The CCPA-BC is located and does their work primarily on the unceded territory belonging to…
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On October 3, 2019, the CCPA-BC and UBC's Vancouver School of Economics were pleased to present the 2019 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture.
In an era of high inequality, continuing poverty, homelessness and housing issues, and concerns about the impact of new technologies on work, there is an app…
Learn about the secret weapon Canadian mining companies are using to extract money from developing countries when environmental measures, Indigenous rights and community resistance create democratic roadblocks to their extracting oil, gas and minerals.
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is …
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CCPA Monitor editor Stuart Trew speaks to Kevin Rebeck, president of the Manitoba Federation of Labour, about the events and legacy of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the importance of direct action, within and beyond the labour movement, to achieving social justice goals in a new era of retr…
With just a matter of days until marijuana legalization legislation comes into force in Canada, the CCPA Talking Points podcast asks activists and legal experts about what’s ahead, and who’s left behind, in the new world of cannabis capitalism.
In this first episode of the CCPA's rebooted podcast, hosts Alyssa O'Dell and Stuart Trew talk to CCPA economist David Macdonald about the Liberal government's proposals for closing costly tax loopholes, and Melinda St. Louis from Public Citizen about this week's NAFTA negotiations in Ottawa.
Following the Paris climate summit last year -- and an ambitious 1.5 degree target to limit global warming -- the Trudeau government promised a First Ministers meeting within 90 days. Marc Lee joins us to discuss the outcome of that meeting, the road ahead for climate policy in Canada, and the issu…
In an extended interview, Scott Sinclair discusses the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the Canadian economy, jobs, and the dairy and auto sectors. Scott also breaks down the flawed assumptions of some economic modelling used to support the case for deals like the TPP.
Scott Sinc…
Canada has said it will sign on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new twelve-country international economic pact. But the corporate-driven TPP is about much more than “free trade”, and concerns are mounting. We go in-depth with four experts: Scott Sinclair, director of the CCPA’s Trade and Invest…
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