As Ontario’s public schools struggle to accommodate students in a new school year amid what could be a fourth wave of COVID-19, the Ontario government should be looking to learn from how independent schools have handled the challenges of the last 17 months.

Ontario Should Study Independent Schools’ Pandemic Successes
August 20, 2021

Region of Waterloo saves $24-million in construction costs
The Region of Waterloo saved at least 14 percent in municipal construction costs since removing restrictions that severely limited the number of bidders for infrastructure construction contracts.
July 22, 2021

Community Benefits Agreements must be fair, open, and inclusive
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.
July 15, 2021

Independent Schools Instill Good Citizenship Values, Study Finds
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.
June 30, 2021

Time For Canadians To Confront Declining Fertility
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.
June 24, 2021

Rebuilding Post-Pandemic Ontario Must Include Gambling Reform
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.
May 28, 2021

Canada Needs A COVID Vaccination Incentive Program Now
Canadian think tank Cardus is calling on the federal government to introduce vaccine incentives aimed at encouraging vaccine uptake.
May 19, 2021

Ontario Introduces Modern, Workable Regime For Skilled Trades
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.
May 6, 2021

Federal Government Underestimates Cost of National Daycare
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.
May 6, 2021
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