Jen Hassum

Executive Director

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Jen Hassum is the Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute. In the last two decades,  Jen led teams at the municipal, provincial and national levels. She is recognized as an innovator in building online community and mobilizing users to real-world action.

Most recently as the Publisher of PressProgress, she helped oversee its growth into an award-winning national news organization read by millions of Canadians. Over the years, her work has contributed to historic electoral victories, winning new organized workplaces and helping win important public policy gains for working-class people. She studied history at York University and the University of Toronto and lives in Cambridge, ON with her partner and two young kiddos.

Recent Publications


August 21, 2025
Ricochet

OPINION | The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian.

Jen Hassum looked at the Carney government’s decision to order striking Air Canada flight attendants back to work, instead of calling for the employers to get back to the bargaining table.

March 13, 2025

On Trump’s Trade War and New Liberal Leadership

Jen Hassum shares her thoughts with international media on Trump’s escalating tariff war and the new Liberal leader Mark Carney.