"The promotion of $10-a-day child care as economic policy illustrates the problem with Canadian family policy, which is that we don’t have one," writes Peter Jon Mitchell, Family Program Director at Cardus and author of the report Envisioning a Federal Family-Formation Policy Framework for Canada.
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Op-Ed
Canada Needs a Family-Formation Policy Framework
June 6, 2023
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News
Does Adding Bureaucracy Reduce Costs?
Adding bureaucracy just makes things more expensive for Canadians, argues Matthew Lau in the Financial Post. To support his argument, he cites Cardus Senior Fellow Andrea Mrozek's work in The Hub detailing the bureaucratic bloat that comes with child care spending in Ontario.
May 30, 2023
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News
Open Tendering for Toronto Could Save $347 Million: Cardus
In Toronto, an estimated $1.65 billion in construction is reserved for companies whose workers belong to a group of favoured unions. A 21 percent discount in Toronto would mean the city would have $347 million dollars more available to invest in police, mental health, and housing.
May 25, 2023
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Cardus Report Supports Open Bidding on City of Toronto Projects
"New research from Cardus shows the City of Toronto could save $347 million by opening up bidding on its public projects," reports the Daily Commercial News. "Toronto currently has collective agreements with 10 building trades that limits bids on projects to contractors affiliated with those unions, shutting out alternative unions and their contractors, such as the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada (PCA)."
May 24, 2023
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Op-Ed
National Childcare Is Going to Cost More Than You Think—Especially in Ontario
"The complexity of a national childcare plan comes with millions of dollars for expenditures outside of actual childcare provision," writes Cardus senior fellow Andrea Mrozek in The Hub. "In Ontario, that happens at all three levels of government. The details of that spending deserve much greater scrutiny than they’ve received so far."
May 22, 2023
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Op-Ed
Toronto Needs to Stop Overpaying for its Construction Contracts
Toronto's cushy deals with some construction unions mean the city is paying too much for its construction projects. If it opened up those contracts to fair and open competitive bidding, it could save an estimated $347 million dollars. That's enough to fund 400 new police officers, two new police stations, 400 mental health managers, and a doubling of the city's homelessness and shelter construction budget, write Cardus's Brian Dijkema and Renze Nauta in the Toronto Sun.
May 19, 2023
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Op-Ed
No School Left Behind: Why All Education Is Public
"When we use the term education system, we shouldn’t think about a single network of schools (government-run or otherwise) where 'private' ones lie outside that space," Ray Pennings, Executive Vice-President of Cardus, writes in Christianity Today. "Instead, we need to see all schools as participating in the development of the next generation of workers, neighbors, and voters who will together build a flourishing society."
May 10, 2023
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News
King Charles Won’t Be Known as ‘Defender of the Faith’ — Does it Matter?
"I think it's important to have our monarch having even someone above him, that being God, that he also has to report to—someone that is a higher authority than even him," says Andrew Bennett, faith communities program director for Cardus, in this CBC News story about the Canadian government's quiet decision to drop our monarch’s 16th-century religious title.
May 5, 2023
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Innovative Structural and Financial Models in U.S. Christian Education
The International Journal of Educational Development has published a peer reviewed journal article based on Future Ready, a book by ACSI and Cardus exploring how Christian schools are innovating new structural, financial, and operational models.
April 21, 2023