Podcast

8 Minutes

Canada Podcast

Needed now: EI reform, work and wages

PV September 15, 2020

[buzzsprout episode=’5748790′ player=’true’] By Liz Rowley The Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament until September 23 is an effort to position the Liberals as defenders of the 7 million people who lost their jobs...

5 Minutes

Culture Podcast

Series shows capitalism as major cause of the drug crisis

PV August 24, 2020

[buzzsprout episode=’5303191′ player=’true’] The Business of Drugs Netflix series hosted by Amarylis Fox Directed by Erik Osterholm, Jesse Sweet, Nick Carew, Eric Strauss Much of the world is facing a crisis around the use...

5 Minutes

Canada Podcast

New Brunswick Tories grab for power in snap election call

PV August 24, 2020

[buzzsprout episode=’5303287′ player=’true’] By Caleb Thompson New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has called a snap election for September 14, well in advance of the 2022 date established by the provincial Legislative Assembly Act, which...

7 Minutes

Canada Podcast

Quebec’s welfare system shows the limits of capitalist reformism

PV August 23, 2020

[buzzsprout episode=’5443150′ player=’true’] “Social Solidarity” or social regulation? By Jason Johnson In 2002 the Quebec National Assembly adopted the Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. This law obliges the Quebec government to establish...