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Aug. 19, 2020

Open letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada CCCF Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland: We congratulate you for arriving at a Safe Restart agreement with Canada’s provincial/ territorial First Ministers to help “make our country more resilient.” The earmarked spending on child care is an important indication of the federal government’s understanding that economic recovery depends on meeting the child care needs of parents with young children, especially mothers. We remain hopeful that the agreement’s provision for child care, amounting to only 3 per cent of more than $19 billion in new federal transfers, does not signal that child care is a low government priority, or that it reflects a misunderstanding of the extent of Canada’s child care crisis. Thus, we stress the importance of further, bolder federal government action going forward. READ MORE

The back-to-school COVID risk no one is talking about OurWindsor.ca In the pitched battle over Ontario’s back-to-school plan, advocates say a glaring issue is being largely ignored, one that is critical for tens of thousands of families and increases the potential COVID-19 risk for elementary schools, even if class sizes shrink: before- and after-school programs.　 READ MORE

Pandemic threatens to wipe out decades of progress for working mothers CBC News Charlotte Schwartz has four children under the age of 10, one with special needs. She also has a full-time career as a legal clerk at a busy family law practice in Toronto, and since the pandemic forced people into their homes in March, she's been doing both her jobs around the clock with little reprieve. "I've started to shift my day," said Schwartz, 37. "So, I do a bunch of stuff pretty early in the morning, a bunch of stuff late at night, but it's very … exhausting." READ MORE

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How daycares have operated during the pandemic — and what it can tell us about schools reopening CBC News While some parents and teachers have expressed concern over B.C. children heading back to school in September, thousands of others have been attending a different kind of educational environment — daycares — throughout the pandemic. Cathy Poole, the vice president of children and youth services for the YMCA, has been overseeing 60 daycare centres serving hundreds of kids from babies to 12-year-olds in Greater Vancouver. READ MORE

Singh calls on federal government to provide $12 billion for child care Kamloops This Week NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on Ottawa to provide the provinces with billions in funding for child care — a demand that could help determine whether the minority Liberal government survives. With the support of the Liberals, the NDP passed a motion this week calling on the federal government to immediately transfer $2 billion to the provinces for child care. READ MORE

Daycare in historic Cabbagetown building gets the green light Toronto.com A developer can proceed with plans to found a daycare for 80 children in a historic building in Cabbagetown, a Toronto Local Appeal Body panel has ruled. While the daycare had some neighbourhood support, numerous local residents, including former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall, had opposed it on the grounds that the daycare would be too large and would create too much traffic, altering the character of the downtown heritage neighbourhood. READ MORE

Group aims to help find French daycare spots for some of 250 families on waiting list CBC News A new pilot project aims to help find French daycare spots for some of the 250 P.E.I. families on a waiting list looking for a space. The Association of Francophone Early Childhood Education Centres in P.E.I. hopes to employ in-home daycares to offer those spaces. "What we're looking at doing is creating a family home daycare agency model," said Kathleen Couture, executive director of the association, who said her group would recruit and license the educators. READ MORE

New daycare spots and community room coming to Bracebridge this fall MuskokaRegion.com Bracebridge's Macaulay Tree House Day Nursery is growing. The not-for-profit centre offers daycare for children ages 15 months to four years old and before and after school programs for children ages four through 12. READ MORE

Georgina daycare company leaves 'hard-working families' stranded YorkRegion.com Parents across the province are desperately trying to navigate what back to school looks like, juggling the needs of returning to work and finding adequate child care. Georgina parents can count on one less option this fall. Kinark Child and Family Services recently decided to close all four of its child-care programs in Georgina, leaving many parents in a lurch as they, themselves, are required to return to work. READ MORE

Chatham daycare ready to accept registration for September iHeartRadio A new Chatham-Kent daycare is fully opening its doors in September for kids between the ages of 18 months and 7-years-old. Kids Connection Daycare has also opened registration. READ MORE

Expanded provincal daycare strategy needs to be part of pandemic recovery program, Regional councillor says St. Catharines Standard Now more than ever, it’s time to start investing in child care as an economic issue, Pelham Regional Coun. Diana Huson says. Huson is bringing a motion to Regional Council asking the Government of Ontario to prioritize children and child care as part of the province’s economic recovery plan. READ MORE

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