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Pages tagged "progress summit"


Canada's pandemic response left workers behind. Our climate response cannot do the same.

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · April 01, 2022 3:09 PM

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Ed Broadbent: Canada has ‘ignored’ social and economic rights for decades

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · April 01, 2022 11:35 AM

Speaking at the 2022 Progress Summit, former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent said successive governments in Canada have neglected its legal obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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Voting for something

Posted on News & Blogs by Jennifer Hollett · April 08, 2016 3:26 PM

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Editor’s note: Debate on electoral reform loomed large at Progress Summit 2016. Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent told delegates at Canada’s largest annual progressive policy conference that the fight for proportional representation is a fight that progressives can - and must - win.

And Postmedia News columnist Andrew Coyne and Alex Himelfarb, former clerk of the Privy Council, representing the Yes side in the Great Debate: Be it Resolved that Canada Needs Proportional Representation, argued persuasively about how the current winner-take-all system is broken and PR is the only solution to remedy the problems of first-post-the-post.

Below, Broadbent Institute Leadership Fellow Jennifer Hollett shares her perspective.

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Remarks delivered by Ed Broadbent at Progress Summit 2016

Posted on News & Blogs by Ed Broadbent · April 01, 2016 10:00 AM

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Below is an excerpt of speech delivered by Ed Broadbent at Progress Summit 2016.

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Gloria Steinem to headline Canada’s largest annual progressive policy conference

Posted on In the News by Broadbent Institute · March 15, 2016 7:58 AM

 

 

OTTAWA — The Broadbent Institute is hosting the country’s flagship conference for progressives. The mix of training and policy sessions from top international organizers and thought leaders at Progress Summit 2016 will showcase the pulse and strength of Canada’s progressive movement and offer solutions to shape the future.

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Like Manning, Broadbent finds new life as thought leader

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · March 29, 2015 12:00 PM

L. Ian MacDonald / iPolitics

Ed Broadbent on the left, as Preston Manning has on the right, has not only re-invented himself as a thought leader, he too has created a think tank that is a valuable source of ideas and public discourse.

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Progressives united, but who gets their vote?

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · March 29, 2015 10:00 AM

Tim Harper / Toronto Star

The good news for the body politic in this country is that it is now flying on two wings.

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February 14th Women's Memorial March Committee wins inaugural Jack Layton Progress Prize

Posted on News & Blogs by Rick Smith · March 27, 2015 12:02 PM

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The Broadbent Institute is about ideas and action, so when we set out to organize our second annual Progress Summit months ago, we decided to begin a new tradition: the creation of annual awards recognizing the work of a great campaigner and an important thinker who have made significant contributions to building a better Canada. 

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Progressives must be ready to change Conservative ideas, NDP stalwart says

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · March 27, 2015 10:00 AM

Joanna Smith / Toronto Star

OTTAWA—New Democrats and their like-minded friends must be more than anti-Conservative if they want to lead Canada in a new direction, says former party leader Ed Broadbent.

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At last, encouraging news about democracy: Delacourt

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · March 27, 2015 10:00 AM

Susan Delacourt / Toronto Star

Is it possible for Canadians to hate politics but still believe in government?

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