Think tank Cardus is pleased to see several positive developments contained in the Alberta government’s 2023 budget. Alberta will be indexing the Child and Family Benefit to inflation and providing limited-time payments for parents with children under 18.

Six in 10 children in Canada live in married-parent families, a proportion that's held steady since 2016 after declining for decades. That’s the key finding in a new Cardus report on previously unreleased Statistics Canada data from the 2021 census.

Parliament has not seriously assessed current safeguards for medically assisted suicide, nor has it given due consideration to whether Canadians facing poverty, disability or other conditions receive enough support to live with dignity instead of choosing to die by medically assisted suicide.

Less than one-third of Canadians are comfortable with offering medically assisted suicide to those suffering only from a mental illness—and 51% of Canadians oppose it. 

Le report d'un an de l'expansion du suicide médicalement assisté est une mesure positive, mais elle est loin de contribuer à l'avènement d'une société véritablement florissante.

The one-year delay in the expansion of medically assisted suicide is a positive step, but falls well short of working towards a truly flourishing society.

Canada’s fertility rate is 1.4 children per woman. Why is it so low? One major factor is that women are having fewer kids than they say they want.

Nearly half of women in Canada have fewer children than they want, according to the new Cardus report.

L’aide médicale à mourir va prendre de l’espace comme issu politique à la colline du parlement bientôt. Nous attendons quelques développements dans les prochaines semaines