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Budget Watch 2021: The rebuild must start with the care economy
Both Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland reiterated their commitment to lay the groundwork for a Canada-wide system of child care at the Liberal Policy Convention this past weekend.
Can we dare to hope?
Tirer la sonnette d’alarme
Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur le secteur des services de garde à l’enfance au Canada Download 754.5 KB52 pages Chaque année depuis 2014, nous sondons…
Le secteur des services de garde à l’enfance au Canada peine sous le poids de la COVID-19
Les frais de garde pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire ont augmenté dans vingt-sept de trente-septgrandes villes canadiennes et de nombreux services degarde font face à…
Sounding the Alarm
COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious child care sector Download 718.73 KB45 pages Every year since 2014, the CCPA has surveyed child care fees in order…
Some BC child care fee increases among the highest in Canada
Canada’s child care sector struggling under weight of COVID-19 VANCOUVER — Like in many Canadian cities, full-time licensed child care in BC is struggling under…
For-profit infant child care fees 2.6 times higher in Winnipeg than non-profit fees: New study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG/OTTAWA—Full-time licensed child care in most Canadian cities is struggling under the financial burden of COVID-19—registering a dramatic drop in…
Nova Scotia’s Child Care Sector Needs Urgent Investment
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report today that provides evidence that without urgent investment we risk losing the child care spaces we…
Canada’s child care sector struggling under weight of COVID-19
Preschool-age fees rise in 27 of 37 large Canadian cities while many sites face existential crisis READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Full-time licensed child care…
The Monitor, January/February 2021
A broader vision of public health Download 3.87 MB “If we learn anything from COVID-19,” write Lindsay McLaren and Trish Hennessy in their cover feature…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2021
Build Back Kinder What have post-pandemic school reopening policies revealed about provincial priorities, and how have public education advocates, parents, students and communities responded? Can we…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2020
Educating for Re-Emergence The summer/fall 2020 Our Schools/ Our Selves digs into the underlying issues of equity and access that have been revealed and exacerbated…
2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Willful Neglect? Download 783.53 KB54 pages Canada has now passed the 30-year mark since the all-party resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate poverty among…
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