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Cardus is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to clarifying and strengthening, through research and dialogue, the ways in which society’s institutions can work together for the common good.
New Research
Home Alone
Why Most Canadians Have Fewer Children Than They Want
May 27, 2026
An International Comparison of Assisted Dying Regimes
Who Can Receive an Assisted Death?
May 25, 2026
Memo: Budget 2026 Considerations for the Canada Disability Benefit
Cardus is providing recommendations for the 2026 federal budget on the issue of the Canada Disability Benefit. These recommendations centre around strengthening the benefit to more meaningfully address the economic difficulties that people with disabilities face.
May 22, 2026
Memo: Budget 2026 Considerations for Early Learning and Child Care
Cardus is providing recommendations for the 2026 Federal Budget on the issue of child care. These recommendations center around improving the accessibility and affordability of child care for families.
May 22, 2026
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Education
Cardus Education studies excellence in education, graduate outcomes, and the development and accessibility of diverse schooling options to meet student and family needs.
Work & Economics
Cardus Work & Economics studies policies related to organized labour, work, gambling and saving, and charities in order to support the common good.
Family
Cardus Family studies the family, child care, and marriage, as well as the ways they can help strengthen civil society.
Spirited Citizenship
Cardus Spirited Citizenship supports the ongoing development of the common good at a city scale, exploring social structures, relational networks, and emerging ideas and practices.
Health
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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We use standard social-scientific methods and put our reports through a peer review process, using outside experts to evaluate and strengthen the quality of our work before publishing it.
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The economic, cultural, social, and political factors driving drop in fertility rate
Among Canadians aged 40-44, 59% of men and 53% of women said their family was currently below their desired family size.
May 27, 2026
Is Gen Z really coming back to church?
Headlines were sparked by a cross-border study by the Angus Reid Institute and Cardus comparing American and Canadian attitudes toward faith and religion.
May 26, 2026
Report on Canada’s airports highlights our enforcement crisis
A 2025 survey conducted by Cardus and Angus Reid found that only 44 percent of Canadians have even a “fair amount” of confidence in the federal government.
May 25, 2026
Study: Canada has one of the world’s most permissive euthanasia regimes
While Canada’s eligibility criteria are similar to those of Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg, what stands out in Canada’s program is that the suffering criteria is far more subjective.
May 25, 2026
