Are Canadians warming up to discussing the sensitive topic of fertility? Andrea Mrozek, a Cardus senior fellow, joins podcaster and journalist Tara Henley to analyse the issue from a personal, thoughtful, and research-based perspective.

"Mischaracterizing all religious independent schools as bastions of abuse and intolerance that don’t prepare students for post-secondary education is false," writes David Hunt, education program director at Cardus. "Robust social science research confirms religious independent schools produce civic-minded graduates ready to contribute to society."

"The fact that anyone with a B.Ed. is qualified to teach high school math but someone with a Ph.D. in mathematics isn’t, is absurd," Catharine Kavanagh, our Alberta liaison officer, and David Hunt, our education program director, write in the Calgary Herald. Subject matter experts can be teachers too.

Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, our faith communities program director, joins journalist Althia Raj on It's Political, her Toronto Star podcast. He explains the findings of our research brief on religious hate crimes in Canada and helps explain why religious Canadians have a role to play in politics and other spheres of life.

"Faith and religion have a public dimension," writes Ray Pennings, executive vice-president of Cardus. "They are not just personal and private. Canadians may be pleasantly surprised to learn that faith and faith communities are a much more significant part of our social fabric than they realize."

"Even as new charter schools open and existing schools expand, demand is outstripping supply by a huge margin," writes Catharine Kavanagh, our Alberta liaison officer. "So why are so many children and families stuck in educational limbo, crossing their fingers and hoping they’ll get one of the highly-coveted spots in these schools?"

"Many factors influence Canadian women to have fewer children than they desire, but the most influential factors from our survey relate to the ideas that children are burdensome, that parenting is intensive and time-consuming, and that women want to finish self-development and exploration before having children," writes Lyman Stone, a Cardus senior fellow and demographer. Photo by Garrett Jackson on Unsplash

"Gambling, now not only allowed, is encouraged, and heavily marketed," writes guest author Wayne Poole in the Hamilton Spectator. "According to the non-partisan think tank, Cardus, OLG spends 4.5 times as much on marketing to encourage gambling as it does on problem gambling prevention and treatment."

"The sudden trend among Canadian authorities to make contraceptives free reflects...an embarrassingly narrow focus on just one small slice of that wellbeing," writes Lyman Stone, a Cardus senior fellow and demographer. "That narrow focus rests on an extremely thin evidentiary base alongside a feckless disregard of such evidence as does exist." Photo by DICSON on Unsplash