Editing Ed Broadbent (section)

==Personal life==
In 1971, Broadbent married a young [[Franco-Ontarians|Franco-Ontarian]] widow, Lucille Munroe. Munroe died of cancer on November 17, 2006, at the age of 71.<ref name="GlobeandMailNovember2006">{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Sandra |date=November 18, 2006 |title=Ed Broadbent's 'moral compass' loses battle with cancer |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ed-broadbents-moral-compass-loses-battle-with-cancer/article1110253 |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |location= |access-date=January 11, 2024 |archive-date=January 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111202734/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ed-broadbents-moral-compass-loses-battle-with-cancer/article1110253/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Broadbent married the [[Marxism|Marxist]] historian and political theorist [[Ellen Meiksins Wood]], an old friend, in 2014. She was a political theorist and socialist historian, author of several books, and a professor at [[York University]] for three decades.<ref name="Globe obit" /> She died of cancer at the couple's Ottawa home at 73 in January 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ellen Meiksins Wood, author and third wife of Ed Broadbent, dead at 73|url=http://www.timescolonist.com/ellen-meiksins-wood-author-and-third-wife-of-ed-broadbent-dead-at-73-1.2151461|access-date=January 14, 2016|work=Victoria Times-Colonist|agency=Canadian Press|date=January 14, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114232035/http://www.timescolonist.com/ellen-meiksins-wood-author-and-third-wife-of-ed-broadbent-dead-at-73-1.2151461|archive-date=January 14, 2016}}</ref>

Broadbent died on January 11, 2024, at the age of 87.<ref name="Globe obit"/><ref name="CBCJanuary2024"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/former-ndp-leader-ed-broadbent-dies-1.6721821|title=Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent dead at 87|website=[[CTV News]]|date=January 11, 2024|access-date=January 11, 2024|archive-date=January 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111203049/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/former-ndp-leader-ed-broadbent-dies-1.6721821|url-status=live}}</ref> His [[state funerals in Canada|state funeral]] on January 28 at [[Dominion-Chalmers United Church|Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre]] in Ottawa was the first Canadian state funeral for a party leader who was never [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]] nor [[Leader of the Opposition (Canada)|leader of the official opposition]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Ken |title=Politicians cross party lines to praise Ed Broadbent at state funeral |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/politicians-cross-party-lines-to-praise-ed-broadbent-at-state-funeral |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=28 January 2024}}</ref>