Social Democrats of the North: E.A. Partridge
A pioneer of Canadian prairie socialism, E.A. Partridge was a radical farmer who organized Saskatchewan grain growers in the face of rampant price fixing.
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Social Democrats of the North: Olivar Asselin, The Radical Journalist
Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal’s most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec’s working poor.
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NDP Leadership Race Should Look to History on How to Change Canada
With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government still 5 seats short of a majority government, working-class Canadians should start asking NDP leadership candidates how they would wield the balance of power.
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Possibilities of Power: A Retrospective of the Ontario New Democratic Government, 1990 to 1995
Reflecting on the ONDP government led by Bob Rae from 1990 to 1995, it is clear that the success of today’s ONDP depends on its ability to deliver on substantive reforms that materially benefit Ontario’s diverse working-class.
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Seeking Social Democracy Live: Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage
Ed Broadbent and his co-authors spoke at the Toronto Reference Library to launch their new book on Canadian social democracy.
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Social Democracy without Borders and the Good Society
To be humane, societies must be democratic — and, to be democratic, every person must be afforded the economic and social rights necessary for their individual flourishing.
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Seeking Social Democracy: An Interview with Ed Broadbent
“Coming back to the commitment by the state, instead, I say, we need an expansion of the role of the state through decommodification. This will lead to the real freedom of more citizens, in a way that simple political and civil rights cannot.”
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The historical imperative to get recovery right
The clear lesson from the past is that, once the sort of inequality that beset the Roman Empire – or that we are experiencing in Canada today – sets in, more often than not it has proven disastrous and in many cases spelled doom for entire societies.
