Join us for the Broadbent Institute’s 2025 Progress Summit, taking place in Ottawa at the City Centre Delta Hotel from April 9th to 11th. Early Bird Registration is now open until January 31st.

Join us for the Broadbent Institute’s 2025 Progress Summit, taking place in Ottawa at the City Centre Delta Hotel from April 9th to 11th. The Progress Summit brings together thought leaders, movement ...

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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 ...

We believe in building a Canada that is just and equitable. In this, egalitarian social democratic values serve as our guide. All people have equal worth and equal rights – and all benefit from living ...

The Broadbent Institute is Canada’s preeminent social democratic think-tank. Founded in 2011 by Ed Broadbent, and guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy, the Institute ...

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 ...

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Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden gave the keynote speech at a Broadbent Institute’s luncheon on “The Progressive Moment” in Ottawa, on May 22, 2013.

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 ...

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

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 ...