New Brunswick PCs expand on Liberal daycare plan, offer designation to home-based centres
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Political stripes mean nothing when you walk into a room full of kids who are just excited to see a new face.
New Brunswick Education Minister Dominic Cardy and Liberal MP Karen Ludwig toured one of the...
Inside Brazil's hidden daycare economy
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Lindassi Pereira spends long days as a key player in Brazil’s informal childcare economy. As a ‘community mother’, she looks after infants and toddlers shut out of daycare centres by the deficient public system...
Turning feminist progress into lasting change: Trudeau's score in 8 policy areas
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A well-timed report by Oxfam Canada assesses federal progress in Canada on issues of women’s rights and gender equality and expressions of concern in numerous policy areas, including gender-based violence and...
Risk, fear and freedom: a plea to parents
Children hunger for a taste of freedom. They are strongly driven to get to grips with the people, places and things around them. To figure stuff out for themselves, to learn new skills, and to build their self-...
Inequalities in access to early childhood education and care in Germany
The equal access study
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The Affordable Child Care For All Plan
In summary: The Affordable Child Care for All Plan calls for the Government of Canada to:
Take action: Sign the petition to support the Affordable Child Care for All Plan
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Too many parents and guardians in Canada still can’t find affordable child care for their kids – with today’s young families still relying on the patchwork of...
Child-care workers urge Ford government to keep wage grant
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Burlington child-care worker Kaitlyn Legge had to pick up two extra jobs — as a shop clerk and children’s birthday party organizer — due to chronically low wages in the career she loves.
“I couldn’t afford to...
The Trump administration is right about child care. But they're wrong on how to fix it
Their recent memo has the right facts but paints the wrong picture.
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Going to nursery is now as expensive as going to university, analysis finds
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Going to nursery is now as expensive as going to university, analysis has found.
Figures released by the Coram Family and Childcare Trust show that some parents are paying more than the cost of a year's...
