Imagination toward a thriving society

Canada’s New Working Class offers leaders a contemporary, modern understanding of the 6.5 million Canadians who are in the working class.

"To dismiss the married-parent family structure as passé is what author and student of psychology Rob Henderson has termed a luxury belief—an opinion that is fashionable among elites but disastrous in practice for the lower classes," writes Peter Jon Mitchell, Family Program Director at Cardus. Ready his full argument in Christianity Today about the importance of the basic principle of family.

"In an age when society is 'deleting religion' from the everyday, supporting local religious organizations actually benefits the community fivefold," reports the Georgina Advocate as reporter Amanda Persico looks at the Halo Project by Cardus. 

We examine the nature and extent of the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians on various economic measures.

There has been precious little progress on Indigenous economic reconciliation since the federal government apology in 2008 for Indian Residential Schools. Income and employment gaps remain, notes Cardus's Renze Nauta in this story in The Western Standard.  

The economic and employment gap between Indigenous people and the rest of Canada barely budged between 2008 and 2020.

Listen in as thoughtful voices from the charitable sector discuss the impact of federal policies on their work. 

Listen in as thoughtful voices from the charitable sector discuss the impact of federal policies on their work.