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Cardus Announces 2023 NextGEN Fellows
Cardus NextGEN Fellow Program kicks off 3rd year with new group of up and coming Canadians.
Toronto Can be Safer With Better Choices
Support for fair and open contract bidding is building in Toronto—the last Ontario city that still reserves construction contracts for companies associated with a select group of favoured unions. Our research brief makes the case for why Toronto simply can’t afford to keep paying more and getting less.
Four Ways Ottawa Can Improve Family Policy
The first goal of family policy should be to help families, not improve economic output or meet some other goal. Cardus Family has produced family policy framework to help the federal government to adopt a cohesive, consistent, strategic approach to family policy.
Families Can Pay as Little as $649 for Ontario Independent Schooling
One persistent myth is that independent schools are all bastions of wealth and privilege.
STATEMENT regarding Budget 2023 and predatory lending
Canada’s federal government announced a “crackdown” on predatory lending. While the goal is good, Cardus suggests the long-term solution is to ensure those without access to credit can find lower-cost alternatives to payday loans.
Hate Crimes a Growing Problem for Canada's Religious Communities
Cardus has released a research brief called Toward a Hopeful Future: Facing Down Religious Hate. The brief notes that religious hate crimes annually reported to Canadian police more than doubled between 2009 and 2021.
Canadians Need a Fuller Picture of Indigenous Faith and Religion
Cardus interviewed 12 Indigenous Canadians about their religious faith and its interaction with their culture. We’ve now collected those interviews in a new booklet to help educate all Canadians.
Alberta's 2023 Budget Helps Families But Lacks Support for Gambling Addicts
The 2023 Alberta budget makes some progress in helping families and K-12 students, but misses an opportunity to help gambling addicts, according to Cardus’s analysis.
Married With Children Still The Norm In Canada
Six in 10 children in Canada live in married-parent families, a proportion that's held steady since 2016 after declining for decades. That’s the key finding in a new Cardus report on previously unreleased Statistics Canada data from the 2021 census.