Alumni of the Emerging Leaders Program reflect on the program and Ed Broadbent’s vision of the “Good Society” at the 2024 Progress Summit.

Charles Taylor is one of the great Canadian thinkers of the last century, and Prospect magazine has called him perhaps “the most important philosopher writing in English today.” The author of ...

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Jack Layton Progress Prize and 2025 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research. The deadline for online nomination submissions is Friday, February ...

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Broadbent Research Fellows are a diverse, multidisciplinary group of distinguished scholars, policy experts, and leaders that inform the Institute’s research and training agenda. The contribution of ...

The late Jack Layton served as leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2003 to 2011, when he became the Leader of the Official Opposition. During his long career in public service, Layton ...

Each year the Broadbent Institute hosts the Progress Summit, bringing together thought leaders, movement builders, elected officials, and frontline activists to help us understand our current ...

Social democracy is the full extension of democratic principles to both society and the economy, to strengthen social and economic equality, and empower the working-class against the inequalities ...

A research agenda for original ideas on Climate Action, Decommodification, Empowering Workers, Rights & Democracy, and Science & Tech for All. Progressive, social democratic intellectual exchange in ...

In January 2016, the Broadbent Institute lost our dear friend and inspiration, Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left’s foremost theorists on democracy and history, and ...

The 2023 edition of the Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Tuesday, May 23rd at an event in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Dean of ...