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New positions at York offer sought-after security, but no research opportunities for those hired.

Presented by Claire Watson, Psychotherapist, with Emis Akbari, Post Doctoral Fellow, Atkinson Centre, March 12, 2015, FRP Canada National Conference.

Panel discussion with Kerry McCuaig, Building Momentum: Creating a Vibrant Portage Together, March 12, 2015, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, with the Jimmy Pratt Foundation, St. John's, Newfoundland (March 4, 2015).

Budget 2015-16 provides $4.9 million in funding for actions in support of improving health and well-being, including: $1.12 million to support the Early Childhood Development Action Plan and enhance community-based early intervention service delivery to improve the care of youngsters.

Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, Best Start Resource Centre Conference, February 26, 2015, Toronto, Ontario.

Panel discussion with Zeenat Janmohamed, CFUW Guelph, February 19, 2015, Guelph, Ontario.

Excerpt: "The Manitoba government continues to create smaller classes for students in kindergarten to Grade 3 by providing an additional $3 million in new funding for schools, Education and Advanced Learning Minister Peter Bjornson announced today as he toured the brand new Amber Trails Community School."

Excerpt: "Approximately 180,000 families will begin receiving the B.C. Early Childhood Tax Benefit starting April 1, 2015. It provides up to $660 a year for each child under the age of six, to help with the cost of child care. The cost of this program will be $146 million annually beginning in 2015-16. Also available starting this year is the Training and Education Savings grant—a one-time payment of $1,200 for every child resident in B.C. who was born since January 1, 2007. As many as 40,000 children may be eligible every year, once they turn six."

Except: "The Manitoba government has established a commission to look at ways to redesign Manitoba’s early learning and child-care system to guide future plans including developing options to create universally accessible early learning and child care for all Manitoba families who need it, Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross said today."

Excerpt: "A stronger emphasis on math and literacy in the early grades is one of the initiatives parents and students will see next September from a new five-year education action plan."

Excerpt: "Child-care providers throughout B.C. can now apply for the second phase of major capital funding under the B.C. Early Years Strategy, which will create 1,000 new licensed child-care spaces in 2015-16. These spaces are in addition to the 1,006 new child-care spaces government announced Nov. 2014."