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Generations of progressives paid their respects to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent and celebrated his legacy and accomplishments during a state funeral held in the nations capital on Sunday afternoon.

The working class kid from Oshawa, who rose to lead an NDP caucus of 43 MPs, will receive a state funeral on January 28

Being on the left will never be easy given the forces we confront, and that pessimism of the intellect must be fused to optimism of the will. Few understood this as well as Canada’s perennial optimist Ed Broadbent, and that is why the new book, Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality, is an inspiring read.

Neoliberalism and ruthless privatization has brought us dire inequality. The antidote lies in a strengthening of the social and economic rights that flourished in the postwar years

POETRY Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) Erín Moure and Elisa Sampedrín House of Anansi Press, August Award-winning poet and translator Erín Moure looks for the future of poetry in its queer and female past by approaching the work of American poets Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and