Peter O'Donnell Ray Pennings
Education
Research Report
Cardus Education Survey: Phase I Facilitator’s Guide (Teachers and Administrators)
August 16, 2011
Education
Research Report
Cardus Education Survey: Phase I Report (2011)
August 16, 2011
Education
Research Report
Cardus Education Survey: Phase I Facilitator’s Guide (Parents and Supporters)
August 16, 2011
Spirited Citizenship
Policy Brief
Why a “Just Society” must also be a “Big Society”
Honouring the core insights in both "Social Justice" and the "Big Society" requires affirming simultaneously the norms of social equality and differentiated responsibility. We must get beyond thinking of these goals as if they were in a zero-sum game—or as if we could even conceive of voting for one but not the other—and begin to conceive of them as part of the single fabric of human social nature.
June 8, 2011
Spirited Citizenship
Policy Brief
Stronger Together: A Four Sector Approach to Renewing Canadian Social Architecture
This Canadian election did not make any fundamental shifts in the understanding of the ways and means of the government. There are still two basic tools in the political toolbox: private-for-profit tax cutting and redistributive public powers. Recently, Cardus argued that a third, often-overlooked tool in the public policy toolbox sustains much of the social architecture of these two sectors: the charitable or not-for-profit sector.
May 3, 2011
Work & Economics
Research Report
Where is the Research?
April 28, 2011
Spirited Citizenship
Research Report
Calgary City Soul Phase 1: Inventory of Physical Worship Space in Calgary’s Centre City
October 20, 2010
Work & Economics
Policy Brief
International Unions: The Midwives of Rights Regimes
Trade unions were the midwives of two of the most important historical events in the twentieth century: the fall of communism in Poland and communism's subsequent loss of grip on large swathes of the world, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Both would not have occurred without Solidarnosc in Poland or the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
June 16, 2010
Policy Brief
Cardus’ 2010 Federal Budget Analysis: Long-Term Talk Masks Short-Term Thinking
This is the Cardus analysis of the Government of Canada's Budget for fiscal year 2010-2011, released by the Hon. James M. Flaherty, Minister of Finance, on Thursday, March 4, 2010. This budget continues to provide tangible short-term stimulus but leaves major questions about long-term demographic and social changes unanswered. It is uncertain whether this government's preoccupation with physical infrastructure will yield the long-term benefit we hope, especially as our social deficits become increasingly evident: a shrinking charitable core, an aging and urbanizing population and an increasingly competitive global environment are tomorrow's problems untouched in this budget.
March 10, 2010