A new research report is challenging governments at all levels to re-imagine the way they are adopting and implementing community benefits agreements (CBAs) for infrastructure and other projects.

This Canada Day – perhaps more than any other previously – will be a time to reflect on what good citizenship means and how civic values are formed. The need for those values has come into sharp focus recently amid horrifying news regarding the federal government’s former Indigenous residential schools.

According to a new Cardus policy brief, Missing Marriage and the Baby Carriage, Canada’s fertility rate was at a historic low pre-pandemic and early indications are that it dropped further in 2020.

As Ontario gradually moves toward a post-pandemic period, the province will need to find ways to renew and rebuild both economically and socially. This is especially important for low-income families, given how hard the pandemic has hit them relative to other Ontarians.

Canadian think tank Cardus is calling on the federal government to introduce vaccine incentives aimed at encouraging vaccine uptake.

Think tank Cardus is welcoming the introduction of the Building Opportunities in the Skilled Trades Act in Ontario. The Act sets out a new approach to the governance and promotion of trades in the province, jettisoning the negative parts of the former approach and enhancing its positives.

The federal government dramatically underestimated the cost of creating a national daycare system in Budget 2021. Crunching the numbers in a new report, Look Before You Leap, think tank Cardus estimates a national daycare system would realistically cost an estimated $36.3 billion per year.

The child care plan proposed in Budget 2021 is structurally opposed to equity for all families. All families will pay for the plan, but only families who choose or can access the type of care the federal government favours receive the subsidized benefit.

Ontario cannot regulate and ban its way out of high-cost credit agreements that harm customers who have little to no access to safe and affordable credit.