Learning Loss, Collateral Damage, and Recovery in Canada’s Schools

Dr. Paul W. Bennett

Disruptions in education have resulted in learning gaps for students who now need tutoring to catch up academically.

Andreae Sennyah

Prolonged school closures has sparked debate about the intention, necessity, and efficacy of halting in-person education as an effective policy tool.

Joanna DeJong VanHof

Canadian legislators have faced questions about what constitutes “reasonable limits” on the rights and freedoms set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Andreae Sennyah

Vaccine Passports Are a Failure. Here’s What to Do Instead.

Ed Bosveld

Brian Dijkema Sean Speer

Canada’s charitable sector will prove to be pivotal in helping Canadians through these challenging times. But the revenues of charitable organizations have been falling. For Canadian charities to continue carrying out their important missions in helping to provide those in need with food, clothing, shelter, and emotional support, Canadians are going to have to increase their giving.

Canada’s charitable sector will prove essential in helping those in need through the economic, social, and emotional hardships of the pandemic. But the sector is reeling from the effects of COVID-19 on its revenues, and this is why government partnership is needed. Cardus has proposed an innovative matching-funds initiative to help sustain charities through these times. Such a program need not be viewed as entirely new spending by the federal government.

The shortage of personal support workers, the most numerous group of frontline workers in LTC homes and the group responsible for the majority of hands-on care, is acute. But why is this happening?

Johanna Lewis Brian Dijkema