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Exploring Alberta’s Independent School Landscape
Diversity, Growth, and Trends
Apr 23, 2024
Polling with the Angus Reid Institute
Mar 27, 2024
The State of Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada
Too many Canadian kids who need palliative care don’t get it.
Feb 13, 2024
Memo: Ontario’s Budget 2024 Consultation
Ontarians have been invited to provide feedback to the government on setting priorities for Budget 2024. Cardus is providing eight recommendations that address the following areas: supports for volunteers and the charitable sector, lowering the cost of Toronto’s public infrastructure projects, addressing gambling addiction, helping parents with child care costs, correcting inequalities in special education funding, ensuring that post-secondary education supports the working class, and increasing employment opportunities for people with criminal records.
Jan 31, 2024
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Cardus Education studies excellence in education, graduate outcomes, and the development and accessibility of diverse schooling options to meet student and family needs.
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Cardus Work & Economics studies policies related to organized labour, work, gambling and saving, and charities in order to support the common good.
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Cardus Family studies the family, child care, and marriage, as well as the ways they can help strengthen civil society.
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Cardus Health encourages the development of social systems that support the desire for a natural death, improve the quality and availability of palliative care, and equip patients and caregivers in end-of-life situations.
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Cardus Faith Communities studies Canadians’ freedom of religion and conscience, the place and role of religion in society, and the ways in which religious congregations contribute to the common good.
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View All Media CoverageOpen Bidding, Apprenticeships Key to Solving Labour Shortage
Want to solve the labour crunch in housing construction? Let's start with fair and open contract bidding, as well as opening up more trades apprenticeships.
May 2, 2024
Alberta Independent Schools’ Enrolment Soars
Alberta independent schools show diversity, growth, and community focus
Apr 23, 2024
Canadians Decry Ottawa’s New Disability Benefit
Will the new Canada Disability Benefit truly help those who need it, and help those with disabilities enter (and stay in) the workforce?
Apr 19, 2024
STATEMENT on Canada Disability Benefit in Federal Budget 2024
The new Canada Disability Benefit must ensure that access to work is a first-order goal.
Apr 16, 2024