Cardus

Cardus is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to clarifying & strengthening the ways in which society’s institutions can work together for the common good.

[Cardus @cardusca]

Read the full proposal here ➡️ https://t.co/FxDZ2cUZ6W

[Cardus @cardusca]

Recent data show that young men feel demoralized. One contributing factor is that men are struggling to achieve the family lives they desire. In a new memo for federal policymakers, Cardus Family program director Peter Jon Mitchell recommends a renewed emphasis on family life in the upcoming Men and Boys' Health Strategy.

Full memo linked below ⬇️

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

ICYMI: @howardanglin adapted a recent and lovely speech he delivered for @cardusca talk about the benefits of a loose federalism. https://t.co/EZ5uGpjxfk

[Étienne-A Beauregard @EABeauregard]

À quoi ça sert, un think tank? 🤨

À faire entendre une voix différente dans l'espace public, appuyée par de la recherche solide. C'est pour ça que j'ai rejoint @cardusca. 💡

[Cardus @cardusca]

@TaraRHenley saw the crisis in Canadian journalism from the inside, and she's written the most clear-eyed diagnosis of it yet. Her new book The Trust Spiral traces how the media's abandonment of objectivity set off a downward cycle of eroding public trust, and what it will take to reverse it. Join us June 9 in Ottawa for a conversation with Tara, moderated by @nationalpost Parliamentary Bureau Chief @stuartxthomson, with audience Q&A to follow. Register here ➡️ https://t.co/2rGdG9BVUI

[Cardus @cardusca]

Canada's fertility rate just hit a historic low—but this isn't just a demographic statistic. It's the story of millions of Canadians who wanted more children and couldn't have them. Swipe through to learn four things you need to know from our latest research on Canada's fertility crisis, authored by Cardus Senior Fellow @lymanstoneky.

Read our new report, Home Alone: Why Most Canadians Have Fewer Children Than They Want, in full here ➡️ https://t.co/M5Fhz8SASy

[Cardus @cardusca]

We stand with @palliumcanada in calling for a National Palliative Care Training Standard for Long-Term Care. Residents and families deserve care centred on quality of life, dignity, and compassion. A national standard will play a critical role in ensuring every Canadian who needs palliative care can access it.

Recent Cardus polling, conducted in partnership with the @angusreidorg, shows how important this issue is to Canadians. Nine in ten believe high-quality palliative care should be a right, yet that right isn't recognised in the Canada Health Act. One in five Canadians who've tried to access palliative care for a loved one say it was difficult to get. Four in five would want palliative care if they became seriously ill. Only 57 percent are confident they could access it.

The time is now to build a system of high-quality palliative care, accessible to every Canadian. Read Pallium Canada's full 2026 Federal Budget Submission ➡️ https://t.co/nOIhj1EGkB

And read more about our polling ➡️ https://t.co/ikVx3UWsKp

#PalliativeCare #LTC @RebeccaGVachon

[Cardus @cardusca]

Canada needs Christian leaders in every sector—equipped young, formed through prayer, study, and mentorship, and ready for a vocation of public life.

That's why Cardus founded the NextGEN Fellowship: twelve remarkable young professionals brought together each year to develop the leadership capacity needed to build the common good of our country.

Today, we're thrilled to announce the 2026 NextGEN Fellows. They are extraordinary young leaders like Brenda, a systems change strategist appointed to the Order of Canada for her work in education equity, and Brandan, a son of Cambodian refugees now serving as a senior leader in national advocacy. Across industries and professions, they share a deep desire to play a part in God's plan for a more flourishing Canada.

Their journey is about to begin. Would you like to be part of it? Applications for the 2027 cohort are open and accepted year-round. If you're a young professional called to public life, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more and apply ➡️ https://t.co/dkEbubxMjB

[Cardus @cardusca]

What broke public trust in the media... and can it be fixed? In The Trust Spiral, Canadian journalist @TaraRHenley traces the roots of journalism's credibility crisis and makes a direct case for what it will take to reverse it. On June 9, Tara joins us in Ottawa for a conversation moderated by @nationalpost Parliamentary Bureau Chief @stuartxthomson, with audience Q&A to follow. If you care about the health of public discourse, this one is worth your evening. Register here ➡️ https://t.co/bRQ0q0pYdD

[Cardus @cardusca]

In a new article on the rise in home schooling globally, @TheEconomist cites data from the Cardus Education Survey on graduate outcomes of home-schooled students. Read the full article here ➡️ https://t.co/cEc2P4SUnH

"In 2025 Cardus, a Canadian think-tank, published research which factored in childhood poverty, whether the respondent grew up with both biological parents and whether they were in a religious household. The paper, by Ms Watson and Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas, found that American adults who had been home-schooled were less likely to work full-time or have a household income above the median wage... The Cardus report [also] found that pupils taught at home for eight years or more reported the highest levels of optimism and close social bonds. But those taught that way for one to two years reported the highest levels of anxiety, and those who were home-schooled for three-to-seven years had the fewest close social bonds and lowest life satisfaction..."

The Cardus Education Survey (CES) examines a range of outcomes for a nationally representative sample of adults aged 24 to 39 who attended public schools, Protestant schools, Catholic schools, nonreligious independent schools, or were homeschooled. The CES examines respondents’ academic, spiritual, cultural, civic, and relational outcomes, and their life patterns, views, and choices. The CES controls for a range of respondents’ demographic characteristics to estimate the specific effect of school type on graduate outcomes.

[Libre Média @libremediaqc]

🎙️ No 89 — Libre Podcast: @FrancisDenis1 reçoit Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard @EABeauregard sur sont rapport de recherche sur la natalité @cardusca + extrait de la conférence de Québec avec @Jerome_bg
👉 https://t.co/0BV9SnBHNZ

[Cardus @cardusca]

Founding and building independent schools is an immensely challenging undertaking. So why would school founders create their own schools, with public education as an option? This reality "signals that a diversity of [educational] options is not a luxury, but rather it is a necessity," says Cardus's Jeneya Ko.

Ko and co-author @joannavanhof's latest report surveys leaders and educators associated with the 300+ new independent schools founded in Ontario in the past few years, to learn what drives them, how they sustain their schools, and what policymakers need to know about this extraordinary movement of educational entrepreneurialism. Read the full report here ➡️ https://t.co/LwdmHgHk9c

[Cardus @cardusca]

What does it actually look like to run or lead in a business as a Christian? What role can Christian business leadership play in the renewal of society and the building of the common good?

These are the animating questions behind the Cardus Entrepreneurial NextGEN (ENG) Fellowship, a one-year formation program for Canadian business leaders who believe their work is more than a balance sheet. Twelve fellows are selected each year to journey together through an integrated curriculum of learning, reflection, and practice, guided by seasoned mentors and shaped by the deep tradition of Christian social thought.

The curriculum is built around six core themes:

➡️ Faith, Funds, and Entrepreneurship — What does it mean to treat business as a vocation? Fellows explore the biblical vision for enterprise and the theology of work.

➡️ Leadership Essentials — Strategy, decision-making, and what it takes to build organizations that are both excellent and healthy. This is formation for the hard choices leaders actually face.

➡️ Business and Community — Business doesn't happen in a vacuum. This theme examines the public role of enterprise in civic life, and how leaders can shape communities, culture, and institutions — for better or worse.

➡️ Character Matters — What kind of person does your organization need you to be? Fellows dig into the moral and institutional dimensions of leadership, exploring how character shapes culture from the top down.

➡️ Hot Topics — From AI to the ethics of contemporary capitalism, this theme engages the live debates that business leaders can't afford to sidestep, and equips Fellows to navigate them with clarity and conviction.

➡️ Looking Forward — The final theme is integration: how do you carry what you've learned back into your business, your life, and your public influence?

The program runs in a blended format designed for busy leaders: five in-person gatherings across Canada aligned with flagship Cardus events, plus four online sessions connecting faith, business, and leadership throughout the year.

Applications close June 15, 2026. The first cohort begins September 2026.

Learn more and apply at https://t.co/nuOgEIEMnl

[Cardus @cardusca]

Can journalism earn back public trust—and what would that actually require? Canadian journalist and author @TaraRHenley thinks it can, but not without honest accountability, a recommitment to objectivity, and a fundamental rethink of who journalism is meant to serve. Join us June 9 in Ottawa for a conversation with Tara on her new book The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity, moderated by @nationalpost Parliamentary Bureau Chief @stuartxthomson, and followed by audience Q&A. Register here ➡️ https://t.co/iSBPFQcxIY

[Cardus @cardusca]

Public education in Ontario was conceived of as a project of assimilation. "That mindset, and the ways in which it lives on today, is something for my progressive friends to grapple with," says Cardus Education Program Director @joannavanhof.

Educational pluralism, instead—as expressed in the boom of new independent schools across Ontario in the last several years—creates space for other pedagogies, faith traditions, and cultures to flourish, while remaining accountable for high educational standards and forming engaged citizens that contribute to the richness of our society.

VanHof and co-author Jeneya Ko's latest report surveys the 300+ new independent schools in Ontario and how they reflect the search for educational alternatives. What do these schools offer that public education doesn't, leading so many founders, educators, families, and students to pour their hearts and hard work into the immense project of founding a new school? Discover the answer by reading the report here ➡️ https://t.co/apHvBc2cd1

[Cardus @cardusca]

Trust in journalism has reached a crisis point. Polls consistently show public confidence in the media at record lows—but who is responsible, and what can be done about it? Join us for a conversation with Canadian journalist and author @TaraRHenley, moderated by @nationalpost Parliamentary Bureau Chief @stuartxthomson, about her new book The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity.

Henley argues that the media’s alarmed response to Donald Trump’s first election—abandoning long-held standards of objectivity and rigorous reporting—set off a downward cycle that continues to erode public trust today. The roots of the problem run deeper still: an industry weakened by economic precarity, a generation of journalists never properly trained in the fundamentals, and newsrooms increasingly oriented around ideology rather than public service.

Henley’s prescription is as direct as her diagnosis. Restoring trust requires honest accountability for coverage failures, a public recommitment to objectivity, and a fundamental reorientation of journalism around the people it is meant to serve, including a long-overdue reckoning with condescending attitudes toward working-class audiences.

Whether you work in media, consume it critically, or simply care about the health of public discourse, this event will give you a richer framework for understanding one of the defining challenges of our time. Guests will enjoy an in-depth conversation with Tara moderated by Stuart Thomson, followed by an audience Q&A. Registrants will also have the opportunity to pre-purchase the book using a special discount code generously provided by the publisher, Polity Press.

We hope you will join us for this critical conversation with one of the world’s most incisive thinkers on the state of media today. Register here ➡️ https://t.co/gtGjImfTt7

[Cardus @cardusca]

"Families are clearly looking for alternatives to public schools, and educators and founders are willing to step in and build them." Watch as Jeneya Ko lays out the extraordinary boom of educational entrepreneurialism we have seen in the last few years, all without a penny of government funding. While there is much to be excited about in this trend, Ko also urges caution—founding and building schools is difficult, and builders face many challenges.

Alongside Cardus Education Program Director @joannavanhof, Ko is the co-author of a new report surveying the 300+ new independent schools in Ontario founded since 2022: the missions and visions driving them, the factors behind their growth, and what this trend has to tell us about the desire among Ontarians for educational alternatives to contemporary public education. Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/ybChhPGI53

[Cardus @cardusca]

Across pedagogies, faith traditions, and cultures, what do Ontario's 300+ new independent schools have in common? Many of them implicitly or explicitly recognize that "institutionalized schooling based on an industrial model just isn't the right fit for a lot of kids," says Cardus's @joannavanhof. Learn more about this industrial model of education in this clip.

VanHof and Jeneya Ko have co-authored a new report looking at the boom of educational entrepreneurialism in Ontario, exploring what is driving this growth—and the shortcomings of public education which these new independent schools are seeking to address. Read the full report here ➡️ https://t.co/pjbI737k7N

[Cardus @cardusca]

Working in faith-based healthcare is not just a job. It is an act of love, a higher calling of service, as James Liebenberg, President of Covenant Care Canada, describes in this clip.

To deepen our shared commitment to that higher calling, Cardus gathered key leaders and thinkers in faith-based healthcare last February at the Renewing Faith in Healthcare Symposium. Together, we strengthened relationships between faith-based healthcare institutions across Canada, convened discussions on common challenges facing the sector and how best to protect its vital contributions, and imagined creative responses to meet the needs of Canadians.

Among our guests was Dr. Matthew T. Lee, professor at Baylor University, whose work with the Global Flourishing Study illuminates the connection between faith and human flourishing. Watch his full keynote here ➡️ https://t.co/9jV82LyQg9

[Cardus @cardusca]

Canada's MAiD regime is expanding, and Heidi Janz, PhD, argues that Christians cannot stay silent. We are called to serve in a perilous moment, during this age of euthanasia.

In her new Cardus Perspectives Paper, Janz draws on disability theology and disability ethics to show how ableism shapes who gets offered death as a solution. The urgency for churches to affirm the value of disabled, elderly, and ill lives is only growing. But so is the call: the theological resources are there. The question is whether Christians will get serious about using them.

Read her powerful call-to-action here ➡️ https://t.co/2I8vbMgAyV