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Pages tagged "child care"


Economic Recovery: Getting it Right for Women

Posted on News & Blogs by Janet Davis · August 27, 2020 11:00 AM

Canadian families are emerging tentatively from the cocoon of lockdown, quarantine, home schooling, remote working, and temporary income support—and are asking what comes next. While governments responded swiftly to support workers, families, and businesses as the pandemic began to take its toll, the response also exposed the stagnant inadequacy Canada’s social infrastructure.

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Solving the Parent Trap: Ideas on Education and Childcare during COVID

Posted on Social Democracy by Broadbent Institute · August 27, 2020 11:00 AM

Ideas on Education and Childcare during COVID

Those with young and school-aged children are caught in an anxiety-inducing parent trap. Parents are having sleepless nights fearing for their jobs while also being worried about the health and well-being of their kids. But we argue that it shouldn’t be this way. Solving the Parent Trap is a policy series on transforming childcare and education featuring ideas from Janet Davis, Nigel Barriffe, Marit Stiles, Beyhan Fahardi and Maria Dobrinskaya and edited by Katrina Miller and Brittany Andrew-Amofah.

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Seven progressive changes coming to BC

Posted on News & Blogs by Chuka Ejeckam · June 29, 2017 11:22 AM

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On June 22, the BC Legislature reconvened and Premier Christy Clark tabled a curious Throne Speech which bore little resemblance to the platform her BC Liberal party ran on just weeks before.

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A national child care system... because "it's 2015"

Posted on News & Blogs by Martha Friendly · November 07, 2015 4:01 PM

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The best line of the Trudeau government’s first day— widely reported and praised in the international media—was the new PM’s.

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Canada's childcare debate through Finnish eyes

Posted on News & Blogs by Maiju Paananen · October 01, 2015 12:46 PM

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As an early childhood researcher newly arrived from Finland, the current Canadian debate about universal childcare has been somewhat baffling.

In Finland, universal early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) means that if a child's parents want her/him to attend, the municipality in which they live is obliged to provide them with a place irrespective of the parents’ work/life situation. 

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The fight for universal child care

Posted on News & Blogs by Angella MacEwen · September 24, 2015 3:02 PM

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My grandmother used to tell me that "nothing worth doing ever comes easy."

Well, a national, quality, affordable child care program is unquestionably worth doing. And come easy it won't.

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Building a national child care program

Posted on News & Blogs by Martha Friendly · August 27, 2015 1:48 PM

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It is pretty clear that in the often fractious environment of Canadian federalism, Canadians do better when multi-levels of government and political parties work together to put people’s well-being first.

This goes for all sorts of things — environmental protection, trade, securities regulation, infrastructure. Nowhere is it clearer than in the social policy arena of health, welfare and social provision.  

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The economics (and ethics) of affordable child care

Posted on News & Blogs by Gordon Cleveland · August 19, 2015 7:55 PM

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Many economists, particularly those that are male, find it difficult to understand the public interest in providing funding to child care. 

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Good labour relations key to educational achievement

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · June 26, 2015 1:13 AM

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Recent tensions in relationships between provincial governments and teachers, especially in British Columbia and Ontario, deserve to be understood in a wider context. Good labour relations in education and positive working relationships between provincial governments and teacher unions are a critical ingredient in the relative success of our public education system.

Canada's education system is generally recognized to deliver good results compared to most other countries. 

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The ideological roots of Harper's opposition to child care

Posted on News & Blogs · December 23, 2014 6:29 AM

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After enduring well over a decade of broken promises, the prospects for publicly-funded child care in Canada looked good in the autumn of 2005.

The Paul Martin government proposed to create thousands of new day-care spaces and had also negotiated deals with most provinces and territories to turn a patch-work of often poor-quality services into a system of early learning and child care with national standards.

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