The purpose of this backgrounder is to provide context for conversations at Cardus on the advantages, challenges, and potential reforms needed to improve Canada’s parental-leave benefits policies.

Peter Jon Mitchell

How Far Does Religious Freedom Go in Canada?

Dwight Newman

How Public Schools Teach About Religion

Andrew P.W. Bennett

On December 15, 2021, Mayor Eisenberger provided notice of a motion to join various Canadian municipalities in a legal challenge to Quebec’s Bill 21. Council will consider the motion on January 19, 2022.

Brian Dijkema

In Cardus’s gambling research and policy recommendations, we have maintained that the most important principle that should guide government-run gaming and lottery activities is protection of the most vulnerable members of society.

Andreae Sennyah Johanna Lewis

This paper traces this conversation from its Greco-Roman and early Christian roots to the present—looking at how the Christian notion has shifted our conception of excellence in important ways, but how we have perhaps lost a fully rounded vision of it in our late modern world.

Beth Green Doug Sikkema

How Matching Students and Schools by Religion Improves Academic Outcomes

Catherine Pakaluk Nicholas Swanson

A Survey of Children’s Public Lives in Christian Thought

Peter Jon Mitchell Johanna Lewis

Strathcona County is contemplating a repeal of the Casino Bylaw that has been in place since 2001. Bylaw 100-2001 was triggered by a petition from residents who sought to prohibit casinos within the County.

Andreae Sennyah