00:30 Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow introduces the Jack Layton Progress Prize
08:05 Remarks by Access BC on receiving the 2024 Jack Layton Progress Prize
12:15 Broadbent Institute Board of Directors Member Stephanie Nakitsas introduce the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research
14:10 Remarks by Sheila Block on receiving the 2024 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research
18:03 Announcement by Broadbent Institute Executive Director Jen Hassum on the awarding of the 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize to Isabella Weber; announcement of the Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture, May 30th at Toronto Metropolitan University.
The late Jack Layton served as leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2003 to 2011, when he became the Leader of the Official Opposition.
During his long career in public service, Layton was fond of a great campaign. Whether working with local environmentalists to erect a windmill on the Lake Ontario shore, co-founding the White Ribbon campaign for gender justice, shining a light on the scourge of homelessness, or running in multiple political campaigns at the municipal and federal levels, Layton loved nothing more than the creation of empowering efforts to rally people around a common cause.
In his honour, and in partnership with Olivia Chow, the Jack Layton Progress Prize is awarded annually to an individual or organization who has run a particularly noteworthy political or issue campaign reflecting the ideals exemplified by Layton, including justice, sustainability and democracy.
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Charles Taylor is one of the great Canadian thinkers of the last century, and Prospect magazine has called him perhaps “the most important philosopher writing in English today.”
The author of countless articles and the groundbreaking Sources of the Self and The Malaise of Modernity, Taylor has also received the prestigious Kyoto and Templeton Prizes. As a philosophically committed social democrat, much of his work has been rooted in real world concerns. He has been a candidate for the federal NDP and president of the Quebec NDP and, in 2007, was co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation with regard to cultural differences in the province of Quebec.
In recognition of Taylor’s rich legacy of politically resonant scholarship, the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research is awarded annually to a researcher whose work has made an important contribution to policy debates relevant to building a more socially just Canada.
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The 2024 Jack Layton Progress Prize was awarded to Access BC in recognition for advancing sexual and reproductive healthcare in British Columbia andacross Canada.
the 2024 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research was awarded to Sheila Block in recognition of an outstanding career of research that informs and stregnthens social movements fighting for justice.
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Join the Broadbent Institute for the 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture featuring celebrated economist Dr. Isabella Weber, who has shown the role corporate profiteering has played in today's affordability crisis.
Tickets are now available for the 2024 Lecture on Thursday, May 30th at Toronto Metropolitan University. Visit 2024-ellen-meiksins-wood-lecture.eventbrite.ca for more info.
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