Work

  • Working Out Well-being

    Losing a job is about more than a loss of income, because work is about more than money, writes Cardus researcher Johanna Wolfert. Governments must keep the non-monetary aspects of work in mind as they try to support those rendered jobless by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    COVID-19 has ravaged Canada’s labour market. Staggering unemployment numbers and ...

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  • Workers Present

    Cardus Work and Economics Program Director Brian Dijkema reflects on the opportunity that construction season provides us to celebrate the "vast array of talents and skills that it takes to keep a country and its economy functioning." 

    Virtually no one in Canada can drive to the cottage or campsite without coming across a sign like this:

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  • The Value of Skilled Trades in Canada

    Yet it feels like a curiously controversial thing when the minister offers his related belief that employers, trade unions and other non-government actors actually have a responsibility to open doors to work for Canadians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    It's an uncontroversial thing when Employment Minister Jason Kenney says he believes work is a good thing.

    Yet it feels like a curiously controversial thing when the minister offers his related belief...

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  • An Enabling Economy

    Last week, Cardus's program director for Work and Economics, Brian Dijkema, sat down with the CEO of Christian Horizons, Janet Nolan, to talk about labour shortages, productivity, and the surprising economic and community benefits that come when disable...

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  • More is Not Enough

    Last week, Lord Conrad Black said to a Cardus audience:

    More is not enough, and it never will be. This is both a true description of the way markets work, and why those who are concerned about morality in economic behaviour and structures might want to go beyond "more" as a basis for supporting free markets.

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