"The trade unions are such a progressive force; their victories over the irresponsible concentration of power in our economic system belong to all Canadians. We must, therefore, support the trade unions, and together act with determination to turn a liberal democracy into an industrial democracy."

Alongside the 80th UN General Assembly in NYC, the Broadbent Institute joined Rumbo Colectivo and progressives from Chile, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico in agreeing to the principles of the new 'International Network of Democratic Thought'. 🔗➡️ broadbentinstitute.ca/democracia-siempre/

affordable housing 🤝 the good society Akuah Frempong (Emerging Leaders Program '23) reflects on Ed Broadbent's vision of the Good Society and the fight for safe, affordable housing.

As the UN holds its 80th General Assembly, German MEP @matthias-ecke.eu reminds us, international cooperation is not only urgently needed: it's also within reach. "If you're feeling disillusioned, don't let yourself be disillusioned. If we give up, who else will step in?"

From Perspectives Journal – Issue no. 4: Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold back unhoused individuals from political participation. Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/ballots-without-barriers/

"The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are necessary but insufficient guarantors of democratic equality," – @lukewsavage.bsky.social Ed Broadbent on free speech: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/democratic-free-speech/

From Perspectives Journal – Issue no. 4: Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold back unhoused individuals from political participation. Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/ballots-without-barriers/

Full lecture: youtu.be/pUmZbAUtQvA?...

The Broadbent Institute is heartbroken to hear of the passing of @uswmetallos.bsky.social legend Leo Gerard. WATCH his 2020 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture: broadbentinstitute.ca/awards/ellen-meiksins-wood-prize/2020-leo-gerard/ Ed Broadbent on Leo Gerard, awarding the 2020 Prize:

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 Mack Penner & Clem Nocos explain how Mark Carney has become the new political face of an ideological orientation that shares his western-Canadian background, but none of his partisan identifications. perspectivesjournal.ca/carney-calga...

The Broadbent Institute is heartbroken to hear of the passing of @uswmetallos.bsky.social legend Leo Gerard. WATCH his 2020 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture: broadbentinstitute.ca/awards/ellen-meiksins-wood-prize/2020-leo-gerard/ Ed Broadbent on Leo Gerard, awarding the 2020 Prize:

The United Steelworkers have just announced the passing of their president emeritus, Leo Gerard Gerard, who was born in Creighton Mine, Ontario near Sudbury, was the second Canadian to head the international steelworkers union

New on the Perspectives Journal podcast: Carney and the Calgary School with Mack Penner University of Calgary post doc Mack Penner explains the "Calgary School's" undue influence on federal governments since the 1990s. Listen now at perspectivesjournal.ca/carney-calgary-school-podcast/

NEW PUBLICATION: One Hundred Years of Progressive Influence: Social Democracy in Canada @clementnocos.bsky.social and David McGrane examine Canada's last century of social democratic movements and parties. Full report from @feps-europe.eu : broadbentinstitute.ca/research/next-left-canada/

New on Perspectives Journal: Canada and Europe Need to Build a Firewall Against US Tech Coercion by Drew Mitnick and Teresa Eder of @boellus.bsky.social 🔗 ➡️ perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europe-tech-sovereignty/

"By building our digital sovereignty, we can be free [...] to serve our own needs and aspirations, to reflect and nurture Canadian values and identities, to be a truly free and sovereign federation in this new age." Full letter: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/concerning-canada-digital-sovereingty/

Writing @broadbent.bsky.social's PERSPECTIVES Drew Mitnick & Teresa Eder explain why Europe and Canada can only protect their digital ecosystems against US interference if they start investing in tech sovereignty now. perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europ... 🔶

NEW PUBLICATION: One Hundred Years of Progressive Influence: Social Democracy in Canada @clementnocos.bsky.social and David McGrane examine Canada's last century of social democratic movements and parties. Full report from @feps-europe.eu : broadbentinstitute.ca/research/next-left-canada/

A conference on refugee healthcare lost sponsors, and a talk for employees at Canada's public health agency was cancelled, after Palestine advocates were labelled "antisemitic." A look at the campaigns targeting doctors who want to discuss the health crisis in Gaza: pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

What happens when governments try to crack down on homelessness without actually providing housing? On the new Sources, Ashley Schuitema of @wrlegalservices.bsky.social breaks down what a new court ruling means for encampments: pressprogress.ca/what-court-r...

The Broadbent Institute and the 🇨🇦Canadian delegation to the 2025 Pan-American Congress were pleased to be welcomed by 🇲🇽President @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social ahead of a full agenda discussing progressive public policy across the Americas. panamericancongress.org

Progressives need solidarity across borders. Hear more from @naomiaklein.bsky.social @ perspectivesjournal.ca/end-times-naomi-klein/

New op-ed: What Canadians Can Learn from Progressives Across the Americas by @clementnocos.bsky.social "Their struggles are ongoing and incomplete, but their transformative visions and substantial wins can leave Canadians thinking: why not us too?" 🔗 ➡️ perspectivesjournal.ca/2025congress-cdmx/

New on the Perspectives Journal podcast: Carney and the Calgary School with Mack Penner University of Calgary post doc Mack Penner explains the "Calgary School's" undue influence on federal governments since the 1990s. Listen now at perspectivesjournal.ca/carney-calgary-school-podcast/

While campaigning on progressive values, Mark Carney's early policy choices—like ordering striking unions back to work and conceding to the US Trump administration—contradict this image. Read more from @hassum.bsky.social and @lukelebrun.ca : broadbentinstitute.ca/defend-services-hassum-lebrun/

Policy makers have all kinds of ways they avoid making structural change on homelessness. Read our latest article in Perspectives and see if any of these sound familiar: perspectivesjournal.ca/temptations-...

In a world where tech is a tool of geopolitical coercion, Europe and Canada have a chance to lead. Our colleagues Teresa Eder and Drew Mitnick explore how a shared digital strategy could serve as a firewall against U.S. tech coercion. Check it out 👉 perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-euro

My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:

Proud to see four Laurier MAP students here, publishing on barriers to voting while unhoused in Ontario from their collaborative work with @wrcls.bsky.social. Congratulations Mary, Romanpreet, Lily and Aya!

New on Perspectives Journal: Canada and Europe Need to Build a Firewall Against US Tech Coercion by Drew Mitnick and Teresa Eder of @boellus.bsky.social 🔗 ➡️ perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europe-tech-sovereignty/

"An independent, democratic digital ecosystem [will] safeguard privacy, protect freedom of expression, and ensure that technology is developed to benefit the many, [not] a handful of people in Washington and Silicon Valley." Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-europe-tech-sovereignty/

On ep83 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show @theprogressreport.ca on the Calgary cop dragnet, @breachmedia.ca on Carney's genocide complicity, @naomiaklein.bsky.social on the rise of End-of-the-World Fascism @broadbent.bsky.social's PERSPECTIVES + more www.spreaker.com/episode/ep83...

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's PERSPECTIVES 📢Activists Make History📢 @peggynash.bsky.social and Airline Division CUPE union leader Wesley Lesosky discuss the recent Air Canada flight attendants strike & the fight for fair pay in the airline industry perspectivesjournal.ca/ac-strike/ 🔶

New on Activists Make History: Holding the Line with Wesley Lesosky The president of @cupescfp.bsky.social's Air Canada component tells @peggynash.bsky.social what was at stake in the recent strike and how to reach a fair wage deal for underpaid airline workers. 🎙️🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/ac-strike

From @pressprogress.ca editor @lukelebrun.ca : "[Mark] Carney took a strong position on the single defining issue of the biggest Canadian election in a generation and then basically flip-flopped." Read the full op-ed in today's @thestar.com : www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

New in Perspectives: The Ontario NDP Must Invest in Public Nuclear Power "The Ontario NDP needs to be bold in its vision for an electricity grid that powers economic growth and delivers affordable hydro to all Ontarians." From @jameshasaface.bsky.social : perspectivesjournal.ca/ondp-invest-...

New on Perspectives Journal: Ontario’s Costly Nuclear Folly The province has pushed nuclear onto the fast-track while demoting clean, cost-effective and safe renewables to the sidelines.

When governments attack the welfare state’s third pillar, rolling back tenant protections and public health laws, this causes inequality to deepen, and housing and cost-of-living crises to grow worse, Gregg Olsen explains. From Perspectives Journal no. 4:

New in Perspectives: The Ontario NDP Must Invest in Public Nuclear Power "The Ontario NDP needs to be bold in its vision for an electricity grid that powers economic growth and delivers affordable hydro to all Ontarians." From @jameshasaface.bsky.social : perspectivesjournal.ca/ondp-invest-...

Writing @broadbent.bsky.social's PERSPECTIVES journal Mack Penner connects Carney and the Calgary School unpacking the 'Passive Revolution and Canada’s Social State in the Neoliberal Era'. perspectivesjournal.ca/mark-carney-... 🔶

Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/editorial-su...

NEW RELEASE: PERSPECTIVES JOURNAL NO. 4 Bringing clarity amid a moment of obscurity, issue no. 4 of Perspectives Journal offers progressive answers on housing, public sector cuts, and the new neoliberal status quo. Read now at perspectivesjournal.ca

"In sector after sector sector [...] workers are saying 'Enough is enough'." — JPHornick of @opseusefpo.bsky.social Watch 'The Rising Tide of Canadian Labour with JP Hornick: youtu.be/HZT7vMzUUpI?...

"The labour market shortages that immigration is supposed to fix are not being addressed by the current system, which focuses on Temporary Foreign Workers, while leaving migrants with needed skills in fields like care work backlogged." from "Shifting Borders": broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shi...

Last month's Air Canada flight attendants' strike wasn't history being made. It was history repeating itself. @hassum.bsky.social explains how Mark Carney broke the "great compromise": ricochet.media/labour/the-a...

"As workers at Canada’s biggest airline [...] flight attendants at Air Canada are in a position to set a new standard for the industry." @emmaarkell.bsky.social reports on Air Canada flight attendants in @jacobinmag.bsky.social, originally published in @pressprogress.ca: jacobin.com/2025/09/air-...

While the mainstream media casts blame on governments, there isn’t much direct criticism for the companies and industries actually exploiting migrant workers. perspectivesjournal.ca/fixing-immig...