@Babcia54 I hate to be critical of the NDP given the alternative (Conservative Party nationally/provincially), but they have to be held to a high standard, imo. Too bad the Greens are so unappreciated, too. I struggled for some time to identify my political ideology, until I read Ed Broadbent's inaugural address to the Canada House of Commons (screenshot): social democracy! 🙏

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

#NDP #EdBroadbent #BroadBentInstitute #Canada #politics #SocialDemocracy

What is social democracy?
https://perspectivesjournal.ca/what-is-social-democracy

* not only re: welfare state, public services, expanding social rights, but also regulated capitalism, economic democracy, transcendence of capitalism as economic system
* 1st of 4 pt series: political history, critical evaluation of social democratic tradition in Western politics / Canadian experience
* full 2017 paper: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/broadbent/pages/7732/attachments/original/1592500518/Reflections_on_the_Social_Democratic_Tradition_-_Report.pdf?1592500518

#Canada #SocialDemocracy #WelfareState #EdBroadbent #BroadbentInstitute #capitalism #socialism

RIP Ed Broadbent

Former federal #NDP leader and founder of the #BroadbentInstitute Ed Broadbent has died at the age of 87.
"Our country has lost a fierce champion for ordinary #Canadians, an intellectual who strongly believed in building a good society," the Broadbent Institute said in a statement announcing his death.

#RIP #OTD #EdBroadbent

@LALegault Completely agree! 😀 👍️

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@broadbent
@pressprogress
@llebrun

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"This is another step that proves PressProgress takes its commitment to accuracy and responsible journalistic practices seriously"
https://pressprogress.ca/pressprogress-joins-canadas-national-newsmedia-council/

#IndependentJournalism #PressProgress #BroadbentInstitute #Canada #journalism #InvestigativeJournalism #watchdogs