Letters to federal party leaders
Child Care Now has sent the following letters to the leader of the Liberals, NDP and Green Party asking them to maintain the important commitments they made in their election platforms. Feel free to use these letters a guide when drafting your own letters to the...
Election Statement: Child care advocates call on Liberals and NDP to deliver on their pledges without delay
Child Care Now is looking forward to helping the newly re-elected Liberal government and Canada’s new Parliament develop and enact a plan to make high-quality early childhood education and child care affordable, accessible and inclusive for all families across Canada....
Canada’s child care advocacy organization releases analysis of party platforms
Liberals, NDP and Green commit to child care; Conservatives put $6 billion of child care funding at risk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, OCTOBER 17, 2019 – This morning, Child Care Now, Canada’s child care advocacy organization, released its final analysis of the child...
Liberals, NDP and Greens commit to child care; Conservatives put $6 billion of child care funding at risk
Child Care Now has examined the 2019 election platforms of the five parties with seats in the last parliament to see how they measure up against the key elements of our Affordable Child Care for All plan.
NDP Child Care Plan gets it Right
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NDP Child Care Plan Gets it Right VANCOUVER, September 30, 2019 – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s child care platform, announced today from Vancouver, British Columbia, gets top marks from Canada’s child care advocacy association. “The NDP has done...
New toolkit helps you engage voters and candidates on child care
The 2019 federal election campaign is well underway but there is still time to get the federal parties and candidates to commit to do much more to end the crisis in child care in Canada. Child Care Now has developed a toolkit that provides everything you need to...
RELEASE: Justin Trudeau’s child care announcement is a positive step forward
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 - Child Care Now welcomes Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s child care announcement this morning which promises the establishment of a federal child care secretariat to lay the groundwork for a pan-Canadian child care system and...
Groups across Canada are collecting signatures in support of affordable child care
As the federal election nears, dozens of organizations are mobilizing their members to join Child Care Now’s efforts to get candidates to support the Affordable Child Care for All Plan. Thousands of voters have signed petitions signatures have been coming in from all...
Hundreds march in event to support child care in Manitoba
On August 20, hundreds of families and child care workers marched to raise awareness about the issues facing early learning and child care in the run-up to Manitoba’s provincial election. Organized by the Manitoba Child Care Association (MCCA), the event included...
Government of Canada releases National Progress Report on Early Learning and Child Care
On August 16, 2019, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, released the National Progress Report on Early Learning and Child Care for 2017–18. The report describes steps taken by the provincial and territorial...
Child Care Now Executive Director to sit on Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research
Child Care Now’s Executive Director, Morna Ballantyne, has been appointed to serve on the Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research recently established by the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development....
Child Care Now board member receives Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Early Childhood Education
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given Child Care Now Board member Ruth Bancroft an Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education, Certificate of Achievement. The awards honour outstanding early childhood educators and are given to those who demonstrate...
Advocates launch federal “Affordable Child Care for All” plan
On May 14, 2019, Child Care Now and a coalition of allies launched the Affordable Child Care for All Plan, a proposed federal strategy to achieve accessible, affordable, quality child care across Canada. The launch also featured the release of a new Oxfam report: Who...
Child care coalition launches federal plan for accessible, affordable, quality child care
On May 14, 2019, Child Care Now and a coalition of allies hosted an event in Ottawa as part of a major effort to convince all federal parties to commit in their 2019 election platforms to building proper systems of early learning and child care. Members of Parliament,...
New report finds affordable child care key to closing gender wage gap and economic growth
A new report by Oxfam Canada, Who cares? Why Canada needs a public child care system, finds that Canada’s ability to close the economic gender gap and simultaneously expand the economy depends on ensuring equal access to affordable child care. The study references...