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Kerry McCuaig discusses trends in the 2017 Early Childhood Education Report.

Excerpt: "In addition to the multi-year bilateral funding, your government is also investing $28 million to support wage increases for early childhood educators. This funding will be rolled out over four years beginning in 2019–2020 and raise wages from $16 an hour to $19 an hour for trained early childhood educators by 2022–2023."

Cathy Crowe, OISE alum, well-known Toronto street nurse, and activist, was among 47 invested into the Order of Canada.

Excerpt: "The provincial government announced today that families with children aged five and under attending a designated New Brunswick Early Learning Centre will not pay more than 20 per cent of their income for child care."

Excerpt: "Pour assurer le maintien en bon état ainsi que la réhabilitation des établissements scolaires de la région des Laurentides, un investissement de plus de 53 millions de dollars a été annoncé aujourd’hui."

Excerpt: "The free daycare program is for parents who are either working or attending school, with children aged five and under attending a designated New Brunswick Early Learning Centre."

Excerpt: "The action plan identifies key priority areas for investment, over three years, aligning with the Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework. They are: Making child care more accessible for Nova Scotian families. Targets for the creation of new child care spaces include but are not limited to; 15 new regulated child care centres in communities that demonstrate need; 500 new regulated spaces; half to be in rural and/or vulnerable communities; 35 percent increase in the number of family home day care sites, with 50 percent of those spaces designated for infant care."

Presentations from the Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting, Toronto, January 9, 2018.
Presented by Lyndsay Macdonald, AECEO.

Excerpt: "New Brunswick Early Learning Centres will offer services to preschool children aged five and under through a voluntary application process. Daycares are not required to be part of this program. Those that choose to do so will work in collaboration with the government with the aim of offering equitable and affordable access to high-quality early learning and child care services by removing barriers linked to family income, children’s abilities and needs, language and minority settings."

Presentations from the Atkinson Centre Task Force Meeting, Toronto, January 9, 2018.
Presented by Louis Senécal, AQCPE.

The deliberations of university boards seem to have become more rancorous and controversial of late. What’s going on?

Excerpt: "The agreement allocates just over $22 million, over three years, to Newfoundland and Labrador for early learning and child care investments. The funding will support the existing 10-year child care strategy Caring for Our Future: Provincial Strategy for Quality, Sufficient and Affordable Child Care in Newfoundland and Labrador 2012-2022 which will develop and implement innovative approaches to address early learning and child care challenges through subsidies, grants, bursaries and professional learning opportunities."