Dr. Steven Bittle is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and an expert on corporate crime. We discuss how so many of the Canadians who have died from COVID have been elderly residents of for-profit long term care homes. At what point would the death of so many of a corporation’s customers be considered a crime? Steven walks us through this question, and explains what would have to happen for a long term care corporation to be prosecuted for a crime.

Dr. Jean-François Mercure is Senior Lecturer in Global Systems in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter. Hector Pollitt is Head of Modelling at Cambridge Econometrics, an organization that makes economic data meaningful for policy-makers. Their work shows how different fundamental assumptions regarding the finance sector and the nature of money, lead to climate-change models with radically different results.

Prof. Kevin Milligan is an economist at the University of British Columbia. His work on public finance and labour economics speaks to many areas of everyday life. We talk about how rich men live eight years longer than poor men in Canada, and why that’s a problem for our public pension system.