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Excerpt: "Transformational investments in child care, education and advanced education are critical to preparing young Manitobans for their future. To address the need for affordable and accessible high-quality early childhood education, especially in rural communities, we are investing up to $70 million to fund up to 17 new facilities to create more than 1,200 new spaces. To strengthen the sector and encourage more individuals to pursue a career in early childhood education, an increase to operating grants is planned for early in the new year to support increased wages. As the workforce grows, more investments will be made to add more spaces."

Dr. Jacque/line Lavallee visited Metro Morning, CBC Toronto's morning show program, to talk about her story and her newly earned Doctorate in Education.

The Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden contains 200 global examples of research undertaken in collaboration with Indigenous communities.

Excerpt: "Alberta has already reduced average child care fees for regulated spaces that are part of the Canada-wide early learning and child care system, and is working towards creating 42,500 new child care spaces among regulated not-for-profit, public and family-based child care providers by the end of March 2026. Alberta is also supporting the valuable work of the early childhood educator workforce, who are at the heart of the Canada-wide early learning and child care system, by providing them with higher wages as well as new training and development opportunities."

On Nov. 20, Clement Virgo's newest film, Brother, comes to campus as part of the JICS at the Movies film screening series.

Excerpt: "To expand child care, Ontario is partnering with the federal government to create 86,000 new, high‐quality, affordable child care spaces by 2026. Of this total, Ontario has already created more than 15,000 new spaces, including over 1,500 new licensed child care spaces in schools."

Excerpt: "The governments of Canada and Manitoba are allocating up to $70 million in capital funding for new child-care facilities, creating more than 1,200 new, regulated non-profit child-care spaces across the province with a focus on rural and First Nations communities, Premier Heather Stefanson, Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Wayne Ewasko and federal parliamentary secretary Ya’ara Saks, on behalf of federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould, announced today."

Description: "This report analyzes the Ministry of Education’s spending plan as set out in the 2022 Ontario Budget and the 2022-23 Expenditure Estimates. The report discusses the FAO’s spending projection by program area and identifies key assumptions, issues and risks. The final chapter of the report compares planned spending for the 2022-23 fiscal year against actual spending in 2021-22."

Dr. Steven Reid discusses Ontario’s challenges and opportunities in math education as international math scores drop and learning gaps widen.

Brittany Burek: Doctor of Philosophy in School and Clinical Child Psychology (SCCP), Class of 2022.

Stacey Gibson: Master of Education in Developmental Psychology & Education (DPE), Class of 2022.

At the age of 79, Dr. Jacque/line Lavallee graduates with Doctorate in Social Justice education from OISE.