Recent news about residential schools should force us to reckon with injustices. But taxing churches isn’t the place to start. Rather, we should point out that such injustices are at odds with professed beliefs, and remind religious communities to renew their efforts at reconciliation and loving their neighbours.

Reflections on history must always be informed by a desire to seek what is true, and to work towards revealing both the successes and the failures of our collective past. It must also be shot through with a genuine humility in which we recognize that, while technology advances, little about our human nature changes. Before we condemn the sins and misdeeds of our forebears we should reflect on our own passions for exclusivity, greed, narrow-mindedness, bigotry, and sanctimonious ideological pontificating about how enlightened and righteous we post-moderns are.

The premier also announced a one-time grant of $500 for trained early childhood educators who work in provincially funded child-care centres.  But Andrea Mrozek with the think-tank Cardus said recent Statistics Canada data shows unregulated home cares represent 71 per cent of the providers in the Nova Scotia daycare and home-care sector.  “These providers and the families that prefer them receive no benefit from the new federal funding,” Mrozek said.  Read the rest of what Andrea had to say in the full article.

Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, one of Canada’s leading Catholic public figures and intellectuals, strongly condemned the growing violence and hatred aimed at the Catholic Church, while at the same time diagnosing its cause. Follow the link for a partial transcript of an interview with The B.C. Catholic.

Should churches pay tax? That idea is starting to gain currency as activists use recent horrific news regarding residential schools to attack the long-standing tax-exempt status of religious institutions. So, Brian Dijkema, our vice-president of external affairs, stepped into the breach in the Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen podcast. Brian used facts, figures, and real research to argue that “taxing churches” will cause plenty of harm, but precious little good.

In today's Epoch Times David Hunt reports on the latest Cardus Education report: "Individually and collectively, on almost every measure, independent-school enrolment not only enhances civic outcomes but does so more effectively than enrolment at government schools."

Our work costing out the federal government’s proposed national daycare system is getting noticed in the United States. “Free or highly subsidized universal day care schemes have the capacity to do a lot more harm than good for most families on both sides of the border,” writes Cardus senior fellow Andrea Mrozek in this article for the Institute for Family Studies.

Ontario’s gambling scheme is one thing that shouldn’t get back to normal as the province reopens,” write Johanna Lewis and Brian Dijkema from Cardus in Ryerson University’s First Policy Response journal. “Far from helping the province get back on its feet, the return of gambling money to public coffers would be a burden shouldered by the Ontarians who are least able to bear it.” Read on to learn how gambling could be reformed for the common good.

Manitoba has adopted a COVID vaccination incentive lottery and Alberta may be toying with the same idea. But as Cardus Vice President of External Relations Brian Dijkema tells CKNW Radio, there are better ways to incentivize Canadians to get vaccinated.