Family is where and how we grow up and live—something intensely private and personal. It's also the bulwark of civilization—the institution undergirding all other aspects of civil society. In both cases, we can no longer take family for granted. Cardus Family seeks to examine and present research and statistics about family and engage in informed public dialogue.
May 7 Andrea Mrozek writes in the Toronto Sun: City plans to add daycare spaces, but are they needed?
May 7 Discovery by Andrea Mrozek of surplus daycare spaces in Toronto sparks discussion on the availability and affordability of daycare in the city. Read more in the Toronto Sun: Cookie-cutter daycare system not the answer: Report
April 27 Cardus Family Program Director Andrea Mrozek was a guest on Beyond the News with Brian Lilley on CFRA Radio in Ottawa to talk about daycare policy in light of Toronto’s growing daycare surplus
April 27 City News reported on Toronto’s growing institutional daycare surplus uncovered in that city by Cardus Family and gave Family Program Director Andrea Mrozek a chance to explain alternative childcare policy options
April 26 Andrea Mrozek & Councillor Janet Davis discuss daycare debate in Toronto on AM 640 in Toronto.
April 23 Cardus Family Program Director was a guest on CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup to counter some myths around the demand for a universal state daycare system and to explain which policies would give parents more choice in childcare. You can listen to Andrea here, starting at the 30-minute, 35-second mark.
April 17 Andrea Mrozek discusses the potential impact of expanding state-subsidized daycare across Canada with host Brian Lilley on CFRA Radio Ottawa
March 22 Cardus press release tells the story of why the new child care funding is more about getting mothers of young children into the paid labour force
March 22 Andrea Mrozek pens a response to the $650 million Canada is allocating for "reproductive rights" overseas in the Winnipeg Free Press with "Motherhood is a woman's right to be valued, too"
March 8 Cardus releases a poll in time for Women's Day. Check out the questions and results that got our panel talking, here
March 1 Andrea Mrozek in the Hamilton Spectator with "Profiting off our need for family, children." This article is about a web site that brings together "co-parents" who will not date or be in relationship; they will only raise a child together
