The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released the fifth in a series of reports that rank the most and least expensive cities for child care in Canada. Development Milestones: Child care fees in Canada’s big cities 2018 shows that child care fee have...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Nova Scotia office (CCPA-NS) has released Unappreciated and Underpaid: Early Childhood Educators in Nova Scotia. In the report, authors Christine Saulnier and Lesley Frank provide a snapshot of what it is like for Early...

On United Nations-designated Universal Children’s Day (November 20), parents, grandparents and workers from across Canada travelled to Parliament Hill to share their first-hand accounts of the child care crisis in Canada with their representatives. Morna Ballantyne,...

On November 19, Child Care Now, the Canadian Child Care Federation and the Childcare Resource and Research Unit brought key representatives of the child care sector from across Canada together in Ottawa. The more than 40 representatives, made up of provincial and...

20 November 2018, Ottawa — Parents, grandparents and workers from across Canada are ascending Parliament Hill today—the United Nations-designated Universal Children’s Day—in search of child care champions. The child care advocates will be meeting with Members of...

Every child in Canada would be able to access high quality ELCC services within 10 years The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released its Alternative Federal Budget 2019, No Time to Lose. Included is a revised approach to Canada’s early learning and child care...

BC’s provincial government has released an Early Care and Learning Recruitment and Retention Strategy.  In it, the government recognizes that early childhood educators (ECEs) and other child care professionals, “have the specific knowledge, skills and abilities needed...

The fight for quality, accessible, affordable child care is nationwide and there are many faces behind the movement. This blog series, “Why I’m Fighting for Child Care” is an opportunity to hear from those varied individuals and the reasons they continue working...

Child Care Now urges Finance Committee to properly address child care in 2019 budget Child Care Now has submitted its recommendations to the House of Commons Finance Committee in advance of the 2019 Budget. The committee requested that this year’s submissions focus on...

This spring, the BC government began to implement its long-term plan to bring universal child care to British Columbia. The first step of the plan involves the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative. The initiative allows ​​child care providers to receive additional...

$10 million available for project funding Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos has issued a call for project proposals to find new and innovative ways to improve early learning and child care service delivery. The Government of...

The New Brunswick Liberal Party is going into the next provincial election with a promise to spend significantly more public money on early childhood education and child care using, in part, funds received through its bilateral early learning and child care agreement...

According to a study, Child Care Deserts by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an estimated 776,000 non-school-aged children (44%) live in child care deserts in Canada. Defined as postal code areas with three or more children per licensed space, a “child...

The 2018 G7 Summit held in Charlevoix, Quebec in June made important commitments towards gender equality including several promises relating to to child care and parental leave: Further support families by promoting high quality childcare that is accessible and...

On April 26, 2018, Child Care Now attended an event with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his appointed Gender Equality Advisory Council organized in advance of the 2018 G7 meetings. Trudeau established the Council, co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Canadian Ambassador...