What’s next for child care following the federal budget?
Come on out and hear from Child Care Now, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit, and the Canadian Child Care Federation for a webinar highlighting the next steps that the Federal Budget 2021 has for early learning and child care. Register A multi-organization...
Federal budget plan for child care is the turning point
By committing to building a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care with a federal investment of $30 billion over five years, the federal government is making history with its 2021 budget. The plan would use that investment to reduce parent fees to $10 a...
Rising fees during pandemic putting child care sector at high risk: CCPA report
Child care sector in most Canadian cities at risk because of rising fees and declining enrolment, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sounding the Alarm is the 2021 edition of CCPA's survey of child care fees. This year's...
Garderie Tunney’s Daycare is reopening
The centre shut down last fall after its landlord, the federal government, decided to start charging commercial rent. But a persistent campaign by parents, child care advocates and elected officials got the centre the permanent rent relief it needed to reopen.
Two things in today’s fiscal update that give us hope
The federal government's fiscal update includes two clear signs that they recognize the country's economic recovery depends on a robust, accessible and affordable early learning and child care system: immediate federal funds to alleviate the child care workforce...
A Canada-wide Child Care System would pay for itself: study
Child care doesn't cost. It pays. 200,000 new jobs over 10 years in the child care sector Another 100,00 jobs in industries that support and supply the sector $17 to $29 billion per year in additional government revenues These are the direct economic benefits to the...
Throne speech sets a bold course for childcare
Childcare advocates celebrate the Trudeau government’s pledge to build a system of high-quality early learning and childcare as a central pillar to economic recovery Today’s Throne Speech shows that the federal government is committed to building the robust system of...
Get Canada working again with child care
Did anyone celebrate Labour Day ’normally’ this year? Virtual marches and distanced outdoor gatherings replaced the traditional parades and picnics to fight #COVID-19. And while we may mourn the loss of tradition and celebration, a much bigger problem is that...
A diverse array of social policy and economic experts and leaders from a cross section of the economy, including women business leaders, appeal for more federal action on child care
Seventy-nine leaders and experts in social, economic, childhood development and labour policy are imploring the federal government to fund and expand child care as a principal piece of Canada’s social infrastructure.
Open letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada: There is no time like the present to build a pan-Canadian system of child care
August 12, 2020 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland: We congratulate you for arriving at a Safe Restart agreement with Canada’s provincial/ territorial First Ministers to help “make our country more resilient.” The earmarked spending...
Alternative federal budget puts child care at the centre of COVID recovery
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a special Alternative Federal Budget Recovery Plan with child care front and centre.
Child Care Now presents to parliamentary committee on the status of women on the lessons of COVID-19
Child Care Now Executive Director Morna Ballantyne shared the organization's COVID-19 learnings with FEWO on July 7. Ballantyne's presentation focused on how the epidemic has put the child care and early learning sector in great peril and made clear for everyone just...
Three quarters of Albertans want to see child care in the wake of COVID-19
An Environics poll done for the Alberta Federation of Labour says 78 per cent of Albertans supported "Universal, public child care so parents, especially mothers, can more easily go back to work and earn wages.” "It's clear Alberta parents have learned some lessons...
Canada must take a lesson from COVID-19 and build a child care system
Child Care Now is urging the federal government to learn the lesson COVID-19 has offered and move to rapidly improve and expand the child care and early learning sector. “Across the country governments had to re-open some child care centres at the height of the...
Child care survey results: reopening brings concerns, requires money
Child care providers across Canada are concerned about whether they can afford to re-open their regular programs post-COVID. One third say they don't know if they're going to reopen at all. This is one number from the results of a survey conducted last month by child...