National child care program needed
Letter to the Editor EXCERPTSWe almost instituted a national child care program. It was ready to roll when Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe joined with Stephen Harper to defeat the Paul Martin...
View ArticleManitobans urged to 'vote child care' in federal election
EXCERPTSManitoba child care advocates want voters to think close to home when they decide which party to support in the federal election on Oct. 19.Families' struggles to find decent, affordable child...
View Article“Nannygate: Real or nonsense?” (Opinion page headline in the Toronto Star)
In December 2015, Canadians learned that two nannies had been hired as part of the Prime Minister’s publicly-funded household to help care for his three children aged 8, 6 and 2. The media storm that...
View ArticleProminent Canadian women urge Trudeau to ensure gender parity in the Senate
EXCERPTSA letter signed by 80 prominent Canadian women including former Conservative prime minister Kim Campbell and former Liberal deputy prime minister Sheila Copps is urging Prime Minister Justin...
View ArticleIf the Prime Minister is worried about families, he needs to pay more...
EXCERPTSFor a parent, deciding which school their child goes to can feel like one of the biggest early decisions they make about their child’s future.But, in his speech yesterday, the Prime Minister...
View ArticleManitoba announces big and bold child care strategy
EXCERPTSThe Government of Manitoba has announced how it intends to move forward on the report of the Manitoba Early Learning and Commission. The report was commissioned to provide direction on how to...
View ArticleOntario urged to champion child care on national stage
EXCERPTSWith Ottawa poised to begin federal-provincial talks on a promised national early learning and child-care framework, advocates are urging Queen’s Park to set bold objectives and play a...
View ArticleDisappearing middle class 'defining issue of our time'
EXCERPTSSeveral years ago, many critics told Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and his team of researchers at Oxfam International that they were foolishly mistaken when they predicted that by the end of 2016, the...
View ArticleWith a feminist prime minister, can feminist policy be far behind?
EXCERPTSWith the House of Commons back in session, the three-month-old Trudeau government gets to demonstrate its priorities. So far the government has been a study in ambiguities.Speaking in Davos,...
View ArticleCCAAC 2016 federal budget submission
CCAAC 2016 federal budget submission excerptsThe Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) welcomes this opportunity to share our 2016 federal budget priorities with the House of Commons...
View ArticleScottish parents call on all parties to tackle 'broken childcare system'
EXCERPTSA prominent parent-led campaign group is calling for Scotland’s political parties to fix their ‘broken childcare system’ before promising to double the free entitlement for three- and...
View ArticleIt takes a policy
EXCERPTSU.S. politicians love to pose as defenders of family values. Unfortunately, this pose is often, perhaps usually, one of remarkable hypocrisy.And no, I’m not talking about the contrast between...
View ArticleWhat we want in an early learning and child care framework for Canada
What we want in an early learning and child care framework for CanadaThe federal Liberals promised they would take action to develop affordable, accessible, inclusive, high-quality early learning and...
View ArticleFeds' advisers call for higher retirement age and, possibly, national child care
EXCERPTSThe Trudeau government's economic advisory council is recommending Ottawa raise the age of retirement eligibility and explore a national child-care program to boost much-needed participation...
View ArticleCanada's feminist government needs improvement, Oxfam Canada says
EXCERPTSCanada's feminist government has significant work left to do on a range of policy issues affecting women's equality, Oxfam Canada says in a new scorecard.The only point on which Prime Minister...
View ArticleCanada urged to calculate how much it costs to raise children
EXCERPTSAnd it is time Ottawa invested in official estimates to guide public policy and help parents with planning, argues the report by Campaign 2000, a national coalition committed to ending child...
View ArticleCity needs made-in-Toronto child care strategy, Janet Davis says
EXCERPTSOttawa’s announced child care funding in the 2017 budget — though not enough to fix Toronto’s daycare crisis — creates an opportunity that the city must seize, Beaches-East York Coun. Janet...
View ArticleFinance Canada was cautious on linking child care to women at work: documents
EXCERPTSThe Liberals hope their daycare budget pledge will help more women join the workforce, but newly released documents suggest federal finance officials were once cautious about a lack of data...
View ArticleMultilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework
IntroductionFederal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers Most Responsible for Early Learning and Child Care agree on the importance of supporting parents, families and communities in their efforts to...
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