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Addressing Economic Racism in Canada’s Pandemic Response and Recovery
In the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 was said to be “the great equalizer”, impacting people across all walks of life. Now, well-documented racial health inequities for COVID-19 have proven…
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Big Data and Criminal Justice: What Canadians Need to Know
We outline what ‘big data’ is, how it is used in the context of criminal justice in Canada and beyond, and how we might think about the potential beneficial and…
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An Electoral System for All: Why British Columbia Should Adopt Proportional Representation
Now, rather than relying on FPTP and defenses like “Well, this is how we’ve always done it!” we can choose an electoral system for the 21st century.
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Progress in the Age of Trump
The Broadbent Institute commissioned Stratcom to research current political attitudes among Canadians on issues of inequality and economic security, and in relation to the Trump presidency.
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Reflections on the Social Democratic Tradition
The term social democracy means the full extension of democratic principles to both the social and economic sphere and overlaps closely with the concept of democratic socialism, which denotes building…
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Submission from the Broadbent Institute to the Canada Revenue Agency’s online consultation on charities’ political activities
This brief outlines the distinct lack of clarity of the current rules regulating political activity and highlights how the biased scrutiny and targeted auditing of certain types of charities has…
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Submission to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform
Because of endemic problems with our first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system in a modern, multiparty context - notably, false majorities, distorted outcomes, wasted votes and the underrepresentation of women and other…
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Workplace Democracy for the 21st Century: Towards a New Agenda for Employee Voice and Representation in Canada
In this discussion paper, we make the case for a renewed national dialogue on 'workplace democracy'; advancing the fundamental rights of employees to associate freely and to have some say…
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An Electoral System for All: Why Canada Should Adopt Proportional Representation
We can choose a system that will serve and represent Canadians fairly and equally while better engaging them in the political process. And that’s a system based on proportional representation.
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Canadian Electoral Reform: Public Opinion on Possible Alternatives
This is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians' attitudes about voting system design and preferences for electoral reform. It also estimates what the outcome of…
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Right-leaning Charities Continue to Claim 0% Political Activity to CRA
This report analyzes the 2014 filings of 10 right-leaning charities. It reveals that nine out of 10 again claim 0% political activity in their 2014 submissions to the CRA.
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The Millennial Dialogue Report
Canadian millennials have little confidence in politicians and are even more jaded than their American counterparts are about