Opinion: Ontario’s child care budget delivers bold pre-election blueprint — at a cost
Voters will have to swallow a bittersweet budget, brimming with election sweeteners and leaving a bitter deficit aftertaste, writes Martin Regg Cohn.
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Given up for dead, Ontario’s...
Roll out of B.C. child-care plan beset with problems, operators say
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The B.C. government’s billion-dollar child-care plan is rolling out this month with fee reductions at licensed centres, but some operators say a hurried process beset with problems has made for a confusing...
NDP vows to ‘do better’ on child care than free preschool care
Details will be unveiled in party platform, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath tells YMCA child-care gathering.
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Ontario’s NDP would “do better” than the Liberal government’s plan to offer...
Child rearing is too important to be left to the market
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Opinion: For women, kids and families — we need universal child care
For my family, daycare allowed us to develop careers and helped us raise a son who is smart and empathetic
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My son's daycare is nestled down a hallway in a tiny downtown Toronto...
Japan's childcare industry is creating an unlikely opportunity for some foreign firms
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Birth rates in Japan are at an all-time low, but the country faces what may seem an unlikely problem: a shortage of day care spaces. That has made the sector alluring to foreign firms looking to do business...
Ontario budget throws down the election gauntlet
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In its waning days before a June election, with the opposition breathing down its neck, the Ontario government threw down the gauntlet with what is unquestionably a pull out all the stops election budget.
The...
The city that got serious about child-friendly urban planning
My last post on Antwerp showed how political priorities shape what is possible. That city’s ‘speelweefselplan’ or ‘play space web’ approach shone a light on how children get around their neighbourhoods. But in Antwerp,...
Ontario announces free child care for pre-schoolers
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The Premier of Ontario has announced that full-day licensed child care will become free for preschool children from the age of two-and-a-half until they are eligible to start kindergarten, beginning in 2020....
Ontario Liberals offer government-funded child care ahead of election
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The Ontario Liberals are set to unveil a pre-election budget with billions in new spending, including a plan to provide fully government-funded child care for preschoolers by 2020.
Following a week of...
