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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Canada’s child care advocates congratulate the Government of Canada and the Government of Nova Scotia for reaching a child care funding agreement that puts in place crucial guardrails for building a universal publicly managed and not for profit system of early...

Canada’s child care advocates say the child care funding agreement reached between the Government of Canada and Province of British Columbia provides a solid framework for building a universal public system of early learning and child care programs and services. As a...

The child care movement has long advocated for a universal publicly funded and managed child care system We have called on the federal government to use its spending power and legislative authority to ensure that all children, regardless of where they live in Canada,...

On June 22nd Child Care Now held its Annual General Meeting to elect its Board of Directors and review its report of the organization’s past activities.  Child Care Now is regarded as the leading national advocacy organization in Canada and has been especially busy...

The inaugural meeting of Child Care Now - Nova Scotia on June 12, 2021 was a resounding success attracting parents, early childhood educators, social justice activists, union members and others. Morna Ballantyne, Child Care Now’s Executive Director, spoke about the...

Child Care Now Nova Scotia gave provincial government officials its recommendations for building a provincial system of early learning and child care in a recent consultation of stakeholders just as negotiations between the province and the Government of Canada get...

Child Care Now congratulates our Board member Martha Friendly who is this year’s winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research awarded by the Broadbent Institute.  Martha is the founder and executive director of the Childcare Resource and...

On May 26, 2021, Child Care Now’s Executive Director, Morna Ballantyne, presented to the Senate Committee of Social Affairs, Science, and Technology on the child care provisions of Bill C-30, the Act that will implement the federal budget tabled April 19, 2021....