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Quebec home daycare workers on strike, call for wage increase
CBC News
Home daycare workers across Quebec are on strike this morning, with the union calling for increased wages and improved working conditions.
In Quebec, home daycare workers are considered self-employed and receive a subsidy per child instead of an hourly wage.
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Has COVID-19 created universal child care's moment in Canada?
St. Catharines Standard
Before the pandemic, Fernanda Yanchapaxi already knew how difficult life could be without child care. The 39-year-old University of Toronto graduate student spent nearly three years on daycare waiting lists for each of her daughters, who are now seven and three. She schlepped them to her classes, tried to soothe them during lectures and pushed her studies late into the night. She managed as best she could, but it never felt sustainable.
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NAALS receives funding for new child-care centre
Coast Mountain News
Families in Bella Coola, B.C., will soon have access to 100 new licensed child-care spaces as part of the B.C.’s ongoing commitment to increasing child care through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
“By providing 100 child-care spaces in a brand-new, up-to-date building, with Nuxalk language instruction and opportunities for families to be a big part of kids’ learning, this facility will bring much-needed child care for families in Bella Coola, while strengthening important community and cultural connections,” said Jennifer Rice, MLA for North Coast.
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City of Penticton granted funding to build new facility to address child-care crisis
Global News
The City of Penticton is welcoming provincial funding to create more desperately needed child care spaces in the South Okanagan where many young families are struggling to find child care.
The city has received $2.9 million to replace the Edmonton Avenue Centre with a new childcare facility, according to a press release issued recently.
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Why we need universal child care in Canada
The Georgia Straight
In 1970, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women released a report calling for the creation of a national daycare program. Fifty years later, child care in our country continues to be neglected, mismanaged, and underfunded.
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