Broadbent's campaign swings through Montrose School on Montrose Ave. in an effort to influence a new generation of potential NDP voters. (Photo: Toronto Public Library/Toronto Star Photograph Archive) ...

Ed Broadbent campaigns in Toronto's Financial District, 1979. (Photo: Toronto Public Library/Toronto Star Photograph Archive) During his early years in Parliament, Ed Broadbent’s signature pursuit was ...

Throughout his life, Ed championed the rights of working people, fought to expand democracy beyond the ballot box, and was a lifelong critic of economic inequality.

The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are ...

The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are ...

Ed Broadbent in a media scrum during the 1988 federal election campaign. (Photo: Toronto Public Library/Toronto Star Photograph Archive) On October 25, 1968, Ed Broadbent rose in the House of Commons ...

Ed Broadbent (1936 – 2024) was the Founder of the Broadbent Institute and was Chair Emeritus of the Institute’s Board of Directors. A champion for ordinary Canadians and tireless advocate for ...

Luke Savage is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Jacobin, the New Statesman, the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Literary Review of Canada.