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Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine - Broadbent Institute 35 legislators from nine countries, including government officials from Canada, Brazil, and Chile, sign a historic declaration in defense of sovereignty and against the “hemispheric coercion” of the D...

"Sovereignty resides in the peoples of the Americas, not in any single State or man above the rest."

Canada is Betting on AI for National Economic Growth: Here’s Why Working-Class Canadians Lose | Perspectives Journal The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers.

Canada has an opportunity to build digital infrastructure that serves the public interest rather than private monopolies.

Without this shift, cost-of-living pressures will persist while corporate concentration deepens and profits remain concentrated among the rich and powerful.

Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with Patriotic Millionaires Canada | Perspectives Journal Dylan Dusseault of Patriotic Millionaires Canada explains why we need to tackle extreme wealth inequality in order to save democracy.

Even the rich agree: extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy.

New on the Perspectives Journal Podcast: Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with @dylandusseault.bsky.social of @patmillscanada.bsky.social

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Press Release - January 28, 2026 - Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine - 35 legislators from nine countries, including government officials from Canada, Brazil, and Chile, sign a historic declaration in defense of sovereignty and against the “hemispheric coercion” of the Donald Trump administration. - Logo of the Broadbent Institute - Logo of the Panamerican Congress - Photo: Delegates at the 2025 Panamerican Congress, Mexico City.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine

Read the full statement: broadbentinstitute.ca/panamerican-declaration-against-monroe/

Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with Patriotic Millionaires Canada | Perspectives Journal Dylan Dusseault of Patriotic Millionaires Canada explains why we need to tackle extreme wealth inequality in order to save democracy.

Even the rich agree: extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy.

New on the Perspectives Journal Podcast: Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with @dylandusseault.bsky.social of @patmillscanada.bsky.social

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Enjoyed talking with @clementnocos.bsky.social for @patmillscanada.bsky.social about why cutting taxes is not the way to encourage investment or entrepreneurship, why even the wealthy want to tax the rich, and why billionaire wealth flight is an empty threat.

Activists Make History: Big Tent Organizing with Heather McPherson | Perspectives Journal Heather McPherson is channeling value-driven politics in her campaign for NDP leadership.

On a new episode of 🌅ACTIVISTS MAKE HISTORY🌅 from the @broadbent.bsky.social PERSPECTIVES journal host @peggynash.bsky.social welcomes MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social to explain why she's channeling value-driven politics in her campaign for NDP leadership.

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On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 Dylan Dusseault of Patriotic Millionaires Canada sits down with host @clementnocos.bsky.social to explain why we need to tackle extreme wealth inequality in order to save democracy.

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Press Release - January 28, 2026 - Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine - 35 legislators from nine countries, including government officials from Canada, Brazil, and Chile, sign a historic declaration in defense of sovereignty and against the “hemispheric coercion” of the Donald Trump administration. - Logo of the Broadbent Institute - Logo of the Panamerican Congress - Photo: Delegates at the 2025 Panamerican Congress, Mexico City.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Panamerican Parliamentary Leaders United Against Return of Monroe Doctrine

Read the full statement: broadbentinstitute.ca/panamerican-declaration-against-monroe/

Light blue graphic for the Jack Layton Progress Prize. A green button appears at the top with the text "2026 Shortlist" next to a geometric leaf. A mature, suited man is pictured below with a mustache against a grey and purple backdrop.

The Jack Layton Progress Prize honours campaigns and activists who are carrying forward Jack's vision for a more just and democratic Canada.

Meet the 2026 Layton Prize shortlist: broadbentinstitute.ca/layton-taylor-awards-2026-shortlist

Shortlists for the 2025 Jack Layton Prize and Charles Taylor Prize The Broadbent Institute is thrilled to announce the shortlists for this year's Jack Layton Progress Prize and Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research. The winners will be announced at t...

A special mention and congratulations to @amyjanzwood.bsky.social for being shortlisted for the 2026 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research!
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New on Activists Make History with @peggynash.bsky.social: Big Tent Organizing with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social

McPherson explains how values-driven organizing goes hand-in-hand with building a bigger tent for the federal NDP.

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The Democratic Politics of Industrial Policy and Defining Canadian Abundance | Perspectives Journal The return of industrial policy has come with a resurgence in critical attention to the meaning of state capacity, not just as a barometer of state success but even as a barometer of state legitimacy.

Free market boosterism does not make for good government strategy in a world of trade wars.

Canada is Betting on AI for National Economic Growth: Here’s Why Working-Class Canadians Lose | Perspectives Journal The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers.

"Canada’s bet on AI, only if successful as an inflator of growth, would represent another manifestation of trickle-down economics."

@madisonvieira.bsky.social of @balsillieschool.bsky.social explains how profit-driven AI will leave the working class behind 🔗⬇️

Happy to share that an opinion piece I wrote for the Broadbent Institute has been published today!

I call into question the Carney government’s heavy investment in AI, and argue that its corporate-centred approach is reminiscent of neoliberal trickle-down economics.

Canada is Betting on AI for National Economic Growth: Here’s Why Working-Class Canadians Lose | Perspectives Journal The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers.

"Canada’s bet on AI, only if successful as an inflator of growth, would represent another manifestation of trickle-down economics."

@madisonvieira.bsky.social of @balsillieschool.bsky.social explains how profit-driven AI will leave the working class behind 🔗⬇️

A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

NDP Leadership Race Should Look to History on How to Change Canada | Perspectives Journal With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government still a few seats short of a majority government, working-class Canadians should start asking NDP leadership candidates how they would wield the balance of...

"This federal NDP leadership race presides over a caucus of just 7 MPs [...] But this is not a unique situation for the Canadian left-wing in the House of Commons. Nor does it mean that the working-class can’t influence public policy in Canada."

@clementnocos.bsky.social and Dave McGrane explain 🔗⬇️

Activists Make History: Stories that Change the World with Avi Lewis | Perspectives Journal Avi Lewis shares how his NDP leadership campaign is connecting social movements for a common political front.

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 host @peggynash.bsky.social discusses experiences from the campaign trail including this conversation with @ndp.ca leadership candidate @avilewis.ca.

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Activists Make History: From the Ground Up with Tony McQuail | Perspectives Journal Tony McQuail is channeling decades of grassroots activism to platform rural issues and a green progressive vision for the federal NDP.

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 @ndp.ca leadership candidate @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social to discuss channeling decades of grassroots activism to platform rural issues and a green vision for the party.

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A purple graphic features the text "The world reacts to Mark Carney’s declaration at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, 'the old order is not coming back' in spite of neoliberalism being largely responsible for its decline. At the 2016 Progress Summit, Ed Broadbent was prescient in stating," above a 2016 quote from Ed Broadbent that reads "If a blind faith in unfettered markets continues to prevail, I believe the social foundation for our democracies will continue to be shaken." A geometric leaf appears in the top right corner.

Mark Carney declared that, “the old order is not coming back” despite neoliberalism being largely responsible for its decline.

It’s up to progressives to re-envision how we defend democracy in Canada and abroad.

Read more at broadbentinstitute.ca/old-order-carney-social-democracy

Activists Make History: From the Ground Up with Tony McQuail | Perspectives Journal Tony McQuail is channeling decades of grassroots activism to platform rural issues and a green progressive vision for the federal NDP.

New on Activists Make History: From the Ground Up with Tony McQuail

On this second candidate spotlight interview, Peggy Nash spoke to McQuail about platforming rural issues and his green progressive vision for the federal NDP.

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Labour and the NDP: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future | Perspectives Journal The NDP’s ability to credibly advance this alternative vision depends largely on whether the labour movement is itself willing and able to engage in such political and economic education.

The challenge for both the NDP and the labour movement is [...] putting forward an alternative vision and understanding of the economy that directly addresses their material interests in ways that unite workers through shared class interests.

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A purple graphic features the text "The world reacts to Mark Carney’s declaration at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, 'the old order is not coming back' in spite of neoliberalism being largely responsible for its decline. At the 2016 Progress Summit, Ed Broadbent was prescient in stating," above a 2016 quote from Ed Broadbent that reads "If a blind faith in unfettered markets continues to prevail, I believe the social foundation for our democracies will continue to be shaken." A geometric leaf appears in the top right corner.

Mark Carney declared that, “the old order is not coming back” despite neoliberalism being largely responsible for its decline.

It’s up to progressives to re-envision how we defend democracy in Canada and abroad.

Read more at broadbentinstitute.ca/old-order-carney-social-democracy

"In Canada, it has been so disheartening to see the Liberals abandon the very principles that they helped to create. [...] This government is choosing to defend the human rights of some people but not others. The principle of universality has been eroded under the Liberals."

How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...

Property controls are yet another way that grocery chains exert their market power in ways that raise prices and undercut people's agency and choice in food systems. @keldonb.bsky.social @clairek.bsky.social See link in comments for recent analysis on same...

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The Monopoly Problem at the Heart of Canada's Food System | Perspectives Journal While the ongoing cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians has been provoked by recent global events, the consolidation of the Canadian food system has been a long-running and strenuous process.

And... with @keldonb.bsky.social on concentration in Canada's food system
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"In Canada, it has been so disheartening to see the Liberals abandon the very principles that they helped to create. [...] This government is choosing to defend the human rights of some people but not others. The principle of universality has been eroded under the Liberals."

In the mid-20th c. lower-income and less educated voters largely supported left-wing parties, while wealthier and more educated groups leaned right.

This pattern has fractured.

Broadbent Fellow @pgraefe.bsky.social w/ @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Simon Kiss explore the working-class vote in Canada.

New on Activists Make History with @peggynash.bsky.social : Stories that Change the World with @avilewis.ca

Peggy Nash is bringing conversations from the campaign trail to Activists Make History, speaking with NDP leadership candidates, starting with Avi Lewis.

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