On June 12, 2017, the Canadian government announced the signing of a Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework agreement with Canada’s provincial and territorial governments. This agreement set the stage for the negotiation of three-year bilateral...
Researchers have concluded that Saskatchewan’s ranking as the lowest of all Canadian provinces for overall quality and access to regulated child care is the result of multiple factors, including an overall lack of funding, outdated assistance guidelines and, most...
Child care has been left out of the federal government’s budget plan even though it acknowledges that the high cost of child care is a putting employment, home-ownership, training and education out of the reach of many parents, especially mothers. “We want to see an...
Key national organizations, including Child Care Now, Oxfam Canada, Campaign 2000, the Child Care Resource and Research Unit, have released a federal plan to bring affordable child care to all who want it. “The Affordable Child Care for all Plan is the culmination of...
The team behind BC’s popular $10aDay Child Care Plan, an initiative of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC, has announced a 2019 update to the plan for a public system of integrated early care and learning, “As the BC...
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, has announced a $2.1 million federal grant for the creation of a childcare centre at the Université de Saint-Boniface. “This announcement is a significant win for the university...
