“Successful political movements can only work with the values that exist in the populace, organize coalitions, and inspire with big ideas that mobilize voters towards a particular action,” writes Cardus Executive Vice President Ray Pennings in The Hub. Amid expectations of a possible fall federal election, Ray examines what progressives have to teach conservatives about politics.

“Vaccines are most effective when everyone participates,” says Brian Dijkema, Vice President External Affairs at Cardus. He argues that the federal government can encourage participation by providing Canadians with a vaccination incentive that not only helps individuals, but the whole community.

Brian Dijkema, Vice President of External Affairs at Cardus, says most vaccination incentives program appeal to people’s more base instincts. But he has a proposal that appeals to our “better angels,” as he explains on Calgary radio station CHQR 770.

Cardus Family program director, Peter Jon Mitchell and senior fellow Andrea Mitchell explain how the recent federal budget has underestimated the cost of establishing national daycare. It sets up the provinces with both a financial shortfall and failed expectations.

The Cardus research report, Look Before You Leap, estimates national daycare could cost in the range of $17 billion to $36.3 billion annually by 2026, depending how the program is established.

Brian Dijkema, vice president of external affairs at Cardus, breaks down the federal government’s budget. Dijkema says the proposed universal daycare doesn’t take into account the different choices parents make for child care.

The highly organized policy in Xinjiang is the most coordinated effort to suppress a religious group. Fr. Dcn. Andrew Bennett, director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute and Cardus's director of faith community engagement, comments on the state of religious freedom in China.

Justice Marc-André Blanchard recently struck down parts of Bill 21, which was adopted by Quebec in 2019. Quebec’s Superior Court decision has mostly upheld the provincial law that prohibits public sector workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work. Father Deacon Andrew Bennett, director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute, responds to the ruling.

Cardus family program director Peter Jon Mitchell and senior fellow Andrea Mrozek offer their viewpoint on the national child care plan proposal by the federal government. Backed by research, they share why the plan is a bad idea.