Toronto's cushy deals with some construction unions mean the city is paying too much for its construction projects. If it opened up those contracts to fair and open competitive bidding, it could save an estimated $347 million dollars. That's enough to fund 400 new police officers, two new police stations, 400 mental health managers, and a doubling of the city's homelessness and shelter construction budget, write Cardus's Brian Dijkema and Renze Nauta in the Toronto Sun.
Op-Ed
Toronto Needs to Stop Overpaying for its Construction Contracts
May 19, 2023
No School Left Behind: Why All Education Is Public
"When we use the term education system, we shouldn’t think about a single network of schools (government-run or otherwise) where 'private' ones lie outside that space," Ray Pennings, Executive Vice-President of Cardus, writes in Christianity Today. "Instead, we need to see all schools as participating in the development of the next generation of workers, neighbors, and voters who will together build a flourishing society."
May 10, 2023
Op-Ed
No School Left Behind: Why All Education Is Public
"When we use the term education system, we shouldn’t think about a single network of schools (government-run or otherwise) where 'private' ones lie outside that space," Ray Pennings, Executive Vice-President of Cardus, writes in Christianity Today. "Instead, we need to see all schools as participating in the development of the next generation of workers, neighbors, and voters who will together build a flourishing society."
May 10, 2023
King Charles Won’t Be Known as ‘Defender of the Faith’ — Does it Matter?
"I think it's important to have our monarch having even someone above him, that being God, that he also has to report to—someone that is a higher authority than even him," says Andrew Bennett, faith communities program director for Cardus, in this CBC News story about the Canadian government's quiet decision to drop our monarch’s 16th-century religious title. Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash
May 5, 2023
News
King Charles Won’t Be Known as ‘Defender of the Faith’ — Does it Matter?
"I think it's important to have our monarch having even someone above him, that being God, that he also has to report to—someone that is a higher authority than even him," says Andrew Bennett, faith communities program director for Cardus, in this CBC News story about the Canadian government's quiet decision to drop our monarch’s 16th-century religious title.
May 5, 2023
News
Innovative Structural and Financial Models in U.S. Christian Education
The International Journal of Educational Development has published a peer reviewed journal article based on Future Ready, a book by ACSI and Cardus exploring how Christian schools are innovating new structural, financial, and operational models.
April 21, 2023
News
Canada is Letting Down Women Who Want Bigger Families
"Politicians who say they support reproductive choice need to better support young Canadians who want the choice to have children, or more of them," writes National Post columnist Sabrina Maddeaux.
April 20, 2023
News
What’s Missing from the School Choice Debate
"The school choice debate is not a binary 'either/or',” write David Hunt, education program director at Cardus, and Erik Ellefsen, a Cardus senior fellow. "Parents are increasingly choosing between a wider array of options, such as public-charter schools, open-enrollment public schools, virtual schools (of all kinds), micro schools, religious schools, and non-religious independent schools." Photo by Muhammad Rizwan on Unsplash
April 20, 2023
News
As Much Pain as Progress
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.
April 19, 2023
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