# Ed Broadbent

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The End of the End of History (feat. Luke Savage)

Josiah is joined by Luke Savage (@LukewSavage, Michael & Us, Jacobin) to reflect on the last fifteen years of U.S. electoral politics in light of the current election year: the failures of the Obama administration, the hyperpolitics of the Trump administration, and the attempted 'return to normalcy…

Ed Broadbent Spent a Lifetime Seeking Democracy, Equality and Real Freedom

Send us a note! You might know Ed Broadbent as the former leader of Canada's federal NDP. But Broadbent was more than just a political party leader -- he also spent a lifetime seeking social and democratic change outside partisan politics in academia and civil society, both in Canada and around the…

Showcase ep25 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES & REDEYE)

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode we report on Israel's targeted attacks on education, knowledge and culture in Gaza on REDEYE, explore how the late NDP leader…

Northern Ontario's punk rock politician

Today we're joined by none other than the Honourable Charlie Angus, longtime Canadian Member of Parliament for the enormous federal riding of Timmins-James Bay in Northern Ontario. Charlie - who some call the Canadian Bernie Sanders - is a diehard New Democrat. For those who don't know, the New D…

Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

To help make Canada into  a “good society,” Ed Broadbent was a major proponent of “industrial strategy” throughout the 1970s and 80s as leader of Canada’s NDP, to use this policy vision for social democratic change and challenge the dominance of market mechanisms, ultimately to the working-class th…

What Can the U.S. Learn From Canadian Politics? (w/ Ed Broadbent)

Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Ed Broadbent was perhaps the best-known democratic socialist in Canada. He served for 14 years as the head of the country's New Democratic Party, after beginning his career as a political theorist. Broadbent's new book Seeking Social Democracy:…

Myra Sable, Sable & Rosenfeld

Sable & Rosenfeld's Myra Sable talks about approaching her 55th year running Canada’s pre-eminent gourmet food company, her big business breakthroughs with Eddie Creed/Garfield Weston/Eli Zabar, why she trademarked ‘Tipsy’ as part of her product names, her memorable interactions with Andy Warhol/Gl…

S2E03 - SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SELF-REALISATION - Frances Abele

Ed Broadbent’s political thought and action was based on a desire for a fuller and richer democratic life, and a basic respect for his fellow Canadians. In one of his final years, Broadbent wrote that his political task had been “to communicate a social democratic vision to ordinary Canadians,” pro…

North of the Border: A Canadian Perspective on the Free Trade Era (with Luke Savage)

In the fifth episode of our series on trade, journalist and author Luke Savage joins Pitchfork Economics Producer Freddy Doss to unpack how decades of “free trade” between the U.S. and Canada have reshaped both economies—entrenching corporate power, hollowing out manufacturing, and weakening democr…

Socialism After Capitalism

2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize and Lecturer Bhaskar Sunkara spoke to Luke Savage at Toronto Metropolitan University about what a modern 21st century socialism should look like. What’s worked, what’s failed, and what comes next? Is economic democracy compatible with capitalism? When so many figures,…