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Cardus NextGEN Fellow Program kicks off 3rd year with new group of up and coming Canadians.

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.

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.

One persistent myth is that independent schools are all bastions of wealth and privilege.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.