Reality Check: $10 a Day Child Care Plan or Tax Credit?
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Register today for Election 2021 virtual event – Child care at the crossroads (again)
On September 14, 2021 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST, Child Care Now will host a virtual bilingual event to examine what is at stake for early learning and child care in the federal election. Please register today and invite others. Moderator, Anjum Sultana (National...
National Day of Action for Early Learning and Child Care
Join us September 14, 2021 in a National Day of Action for affordable, quality, accessible, inclusive child care for all. At 1:00 PM ET, join a Canada-wide bilingual on-line event about what is at stake for early learning and child care in the 2021 federal election....
Election 2021 commitments: what child care advocates want from political parties and candidates
The 2021 federal election could either accelerate the federal government's progress in building a universal Canada-wide system of early learning and child care or bring it to a screeching halt. Child care advocates are seeking the following specific child care policy...
Election 2021: Party platforms
Four federal parties are fielding candidates across Canada. We have studied their platforms and analysed their announcements. So far, this is where they stand on early learning and child care. Liberals In its 2021 federal budget, the Liberal federal government...
Creating more non-standard reliable child care will rely on building a comprehensive publicly funded and managed system of regulated early learning and child care
A report about the lack of adequate regulated child care for parents who work non-standard hours should be required reading for provincial governments who have been given federal funds to expand regulated child care. Across Canada, almost 4 out of 10 families with...
Advocates celebrate Saskatchewan child care agreement and vow federal election will not end the building of a Canada-wide early learning and child care system.
Canada’s child care advocates say the Canada-Saskatchewan child care agreement announced today promises to more than double the existing supply of regulated child care spaces for the province’s youngest children, cut fees by 50% in the next year and bring them down...
Newfoundland and Labrador Public Consultations
On July 28, the Governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador announced a child care funding agreement that has the potential of transforming early learning and child care in the province. Through this agreement, Newfoundland and Labrador will receive more than...
Quebec update: Canada-Quebec agreement signed; wage negotiations underway
Quebec and the federal government have reached an agreement funding up to 37,000 new child care spaces. The agreement, described as an asymmetrical agreement because it has some different provisions from those signed by other provinces, recognizes that Quebec has...
Canada-wide system of early and child care gets greenlight from 5 provinces and Yukon Territory
The federal government’s promise to build a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care system is moving forward at a fast clip as more and more provinces sign agreements with the Government of Canada to lower parent fees and expand the supply of regulated...
Childcare calculator
The federal government is negotiating child care agreements with the provinces and territories that will require that parent fees for regulated child care be lowered by an average of 50 per cent by 2022 and to an average of $10 a day by 2025-26. But exactly how much...
Government of Canada child care agreement will bring $10 a day child care to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2023
The Government of Canada’s child care funding agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador will bring down parent fees to $15 a day next year and to $10 a day in 2023 making regulated child care programs the most affordable in the country after Quebec, said Canada’s...
Child care advocates applaud PEI child care agreement–the first reached with a provincial Conservative government
The Government of Canada’s plan to build a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care is working, said Canada’s child care advocacy association after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and PEI Premier Dennis King announced they had reached an agreement to expand...
Ontario Chalks the Walk and How to Get Involved!
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) and the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO) launched a Roadmap to Universal Child Care in Ontario which proposes twenty policy interventions to build a comprehensive and publicly funded...
Provincial Action
Alberta advocates have published an Op Ed on why a provincial child care agreement with the federal government is critical to the survival of the child care sector and to economic recovery from COVID19. Child Care Now Saskatchewan published an open letter to...