Budget 2023 Reaction: Green Industrial Policy with Brendan Haley
The federal Liberal government’s budget touts $56 billion in tax credits to spur investments in climate change measures. These come in response to the US Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act,...
Budget 2023 Reaction: Capital Gains Taxes with Professor Rhys Kesselman
It’s Federal Budget Day 2023, and it’s tax season, and among the spending and revenue measures being proposed by the Liberal government are changes to capital gains taxes. Director of Policy...
Broadbent Institute Announces Jennifer Yin Barrett as Senior Director of Strategy and Operations
The Broadbent Institute is pleased to announce Jennifer Yin Barrett as the organization’s new Senior Director of Strategy and Operations. Jennifer comes to the Institute with over a decade of...
Recognizing Progress: Announcing Broadbent Institute 2023 Awards
Each year, in partnership with the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, and former MP and city councillor Olivia Chow, the Broadbent Institute has the honour of awarding the Jack Layton Progress...
New Housing Report: Beyond Simply Building More
Photo by Narciso Arellano on Unsplash As the Ontario government begins to undertake the task of addressing housing affordability in the province, it is important to consider both long-term and...
Introducing Building the Whirlwind
People across Canada face significant threats and challenges. And yet, people are building social movements that offer compelling visions and spur collective action. From the Arab Spring to Black Lives...
Ed Broadbent Announces the 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize Recipient
On behalf of the board of directors, I am pleased to announce that economist and former Progress Summit speaker Armine Yalnizyan is the recipient of the 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood...
Sunny times are over — it’s time for progressive Canadians to own this angry era
Progressives love a happy warrior. Can you blame us? Progressive politics is, ultimately, an act of hope. It’s founded on the idea that more unites people than divides them —...
Shortlist for the 2023 Jack Layton Prize and Charles Taylor Prize
The Broadbent Institute is proud to announce our shortlist of nominations for the 2023 Jack Layton Progress Prize and the 2023 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research. The...
Pierre Poilievre is filling a void the left should occupy
The Tory leader is building a new kind of diverse Conservative coalition: one that is younger and angrier and more distrustful of institutions — with a wink to the protest...
