Live Webinar Information Session

The Cardus NextGEN Fellows Program is a year-long, leadership development opportunity for Christians aged 25-34. Each class of Fellows will participate in a week-long seminar on Christian social and political thought in Ottawa, as well as four weekends across Canada, and monthly Zoom Connects with guest speakers to discuss vocation, leadership, faith and public life, and public policy.

Live Webinar

The Cardus Religious Freedom Institute's Diakonia Project presents 8 faith-based initiatives from across the country. Join Fr. Dcn. Andrew Bennett as he engages three leaders of prominent initiatives to discuss the foundational and crucial role that faith-based action plays in our communities. Join us online for this conversation about our common life.

Live Webinar

Where is 2021 taking us? Cardus co-founder and Executive Vice President, Ray Pennings, explored answers to important questions along with a panel of Cardus experts.

Live Webinar Panel Discussion

The Ontario lockdown has seen faith communities endure strict regulation, especially in the red and grey zones. Astride the resulting fault lines, Cardus sees short-term and long-term opportunity for elected and spiritual leaders to work more collaboratively. Cardus is facilitating this conversation between faith leaders with three Ontario legislators and invites you to join in on this important discussion.

Live Roundtable Discussion

Canada’s natural-resources sector in general, and oil and gas in particular, has counteracted the trend of job polarization by providing well-paying, mid-skilled jobs that have sustained Canada’s middle class in recent decades. What are the consequences of the demise of this sector? How might we envision environmental policy that considers the human and community costs and benefits of such work?  Join us on Wednesday, December 16, from 1-2:30pm EST for a roundtable discussion on Cardus’s recent paper “Fuelling Canada's Middle Class: Job Polarization and the Natural Resource Sector.” 

Live Webinar

A free webinar with Cardus co-founders Michael Van Pelt and Ray Pennings on rebuilding the foundations for a post-pandemic world. 

Live Webinar Panel Discussion

The Chinese Communist regime under President Xi Jinping is systematically violating the religious freedom of Chinese Christians through the destruction and conversion of church buildings, imprisonment of pastors and priests, and the coercion of Christians to renounce their faith. This comes in addition to the brutal repression of the religious freedom of Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Live Webinar Panel Discussion

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting quarantine restrictions have impacted many aspects of our lives. Faith communities in particular have faced restrictions on public worship and on their community outreach and have had to adapt. Some argue these restrictions to be reasonable while others see them as unreasonable limits on religious freedom.