It has been a week since Budget 2017 was tabled, a budget that undertook, for the first time in Canada, a gender-based analysis.

Every year, women around the world celebrate (angrily) the day their average full-time, full-year earnings have caught up to men’s average full-time full-year earnings from the year before.

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

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.

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