March 4, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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.
Cardus Forecast: A Canadian Addendum to Davos and McKinsey
Essential Services: Working to Reopen Ontario’s Faith Hubs
February 26, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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.
Fuelling the Middle Class: Bringing a Job Lens to Canada’s Resource and Environmental Debates
December 16, 2020 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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.”
Foundations for a Post-Pandemic World
December 9, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Live Webinar
A free webinar with Cardus co-founders Michael Van Pelt and Ray Pennings on rebuilding the foundations for a post-pandemic world.
Mao vs. God: State Control of Churches in China under Xi
October 26, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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.
The Church, the State, and the Pandemic
October 15, 2020 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Virtual
Between Pandemic and Protest: Exploring the Future of the Liberal Arts in Higher Education
October 5, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Live Webinar Panel Discussion
COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, presenting a cliff made still taller by a powerful protest movement.
The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools in Light of COVID
September 30, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Live Webinar Panel Discussion
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic left our schools scrambling. The sudden need for distance education thrust our kids into an experiment with online learning that we weren’t ready for. Whatever the results of that experiment prove to be, we already know the experience exposed significant cracks in education: inflexibility, inequity, and over-centralized control. So, how do we make education more resilient for the future?