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‘Ed was who I wanted to be when I grew up,’ says Singh after NDP legend Broadbent died on Jan. 11

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Ed Broadbent, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pictured Oct. 6, 2019, at the Farmers' Market at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa. Broadbent was helping Singh and the NDP campaign in Ottawa-Centre, the riding Broadbent once held. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

January 15, 2024

At one time the most popular political leader in Canada, former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, who led the party from 1975 to 1989, died on Jan. 11, aged 87, and the tributes were flooding in last week.

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