Ontario’s government needs to set a firm end date for vaccine passports and transition to new, more effective policy for handling the later stages of the COVID pandemic.
Ontario’s vaccine passports fail to protect public health
October 14, 2021
All Parties “Dropped the Ball” on Freedom of Conscience in Canada
When Parliament resumes sitting this fall, it should prioritize the protection of freedom of conscience.
September 27, 2021
Ontario Education Funding Clashes with Canadian, Global Norms
With kids back at school and Ontario’s legislature just weeks away from re-opening, new research points to a critical gap in the province’s education funding approach, which further disadvantages the already disadvantaged.
September 15, 2021
Ontario Should Study Independent Schools’ Pandemic Successes
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.
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
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