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...
The child care sector is a critical part of our pandemic response
We saw it in Ontario earlier this month when child care centres were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 then almost immediately re-opened so that health care and emergency services workers with children could stay on the job.
Child care fee survey shows that the right government action can make it affordable
This year’s survey of child care fees in Canadian cities reads like a parable for affordable child care. CCNow Executive Director Morna Ballantyne says contained within the 43 page report — the sixth issued by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — are both...
Manitoba government responds to child care crisis with… another study
Child care advocates in Manitoba are shaking their heads today after catching wind of the provincial government’s plan to deal with a child care system under severe strain by studying it more. Details are sketchy but the coalition has learned that the government has...
Child care researchers release deep dive into the world of child care for precarious employees
Child care in Canada is expensive, hard to find and too often unreliable. But what if you’re among the estimated 30 per cent of parents whose working hours fall outside of a regular day shift? A new report by researchers from the University of Guelph, University of...
CCNow seeks ambition and follow-through on child care in the next federal budget
The next federal budget must make child care a priority, Morna Ballantyne told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance at its pre-budget consultations, Feb 6. Watch Morna Ballantyne’s presentation (parlvu.gc.ca) starting at 17:54:3 Read CCNow's presentation While...
New Child Care Now campaign targets federal party leaders
On October 21, Canadians voted for parties that support providing affordable child care to all. The Liberals, NDP and the Greens are all on record supporting many of the aspects of Child Care Now’s Affordable Child Care for All Plan. Child Care Now is asking Prime...