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Work & Economics
Research Report

Royally Flushed, Atlantic Canada

The Atlantic provinces disproportionately tax the poor through gambling to pay for government programs

Brian Dijkema Johanna Lewis

July 15, 2020

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Work & Economics
Research Report

Royally Flushed, Alberta

Reforming Gambling to Work for, Not Against, Alberta

Brian Dijkema Johanna Lewis

July 15, 2020

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Work & Economics
Research Report

Royally Flushed, British Columbia

Reforming Gambling to Work for, Not Against, British Columbia

Brian Dijkema Johanna Lewis

July 15, 2020

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Research Brief

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Federal Tax Credit for Charitable Donations

Canada’s charitable sector will prove essential in helping those in need through the economic, social, and emotional hardships of the pandemic. But the sector is reeling from the effects of COVID-19 on its revenues, and this is why government partnership is needed. Cardus has proposed an innovative matching-funds initiative to help sustain charities through these times. Such a program need not be viewed as entirely new spending by the federal government.

July 7, 2020

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Health
Research Brief

Loneliness and Social Isolation

This backgrounder is intended to provide context for Cardus’s focus on loneliness and social isolation. Cardus research is intended not only to raise awareness and provide insight into a particular area of public life, but also to stimulate action and behavioural changes that have a positive impact on social flourishing.

June 29, 2020

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Work & Economics
Research Report

Structural Challenges to Personal Support Worker Funding

The shortage of personal support workers, the most numerous group of frontline workers in LTC homes and the group responsible for the majority of hands-on care, is acute. But why is this happening?

Johanna Lewis Brian Dijkema

June 29, 2020

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Family

The Canadian Marriage Map

June 23, 2020

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Work & Economics
Research Report

Pressing Its Luck

How Ontario Lottery and Gaming Can Work for, Not Against, Low Income Households.

Brian Dijkema Johanna Lewis

June 9, 2020

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Education
Research Report

Flexible Education in an Age of Disruption

Embracing Innovation and Diversity in Ontario K–12 Education

David Hunt

May 25, 2020