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All together now: Childcare is not a boutique women’s issue
Shannon Proudfoot: Politicians have repeatedly referred to childcare as a mother’s problem, undercutting the essential fact that we all have skin in this game
Budget 2021: The Liberal path out of the pandemic and back to work
In the Liberals’ optimistic budget, recovery is coming. It will take extensions of key pandemic programs, plus childcare, job training, student grants and business supports.
Budget 2021: The Liberals’ massive, historic, very costly bet on childcare
Childcare for an average of $10 a day within five years? The budget’s big offering is ambitious and essential, say experts. It will also be an enormous job to pull off.
Budget 2021: Welcome back, standard operating procedures
Paul Wells: The budget focuses on the sort of things a government like Canada’s should be working on right now. But the big bet is on childcare—and the devil is in the details.
A progressive federal budget and how to pay for it
Ed Broadbent and Brittany Andrew-Amofah: To ‘build back better’ Canada will need childcare, pharmacare, a green recovery—and new measures to sustain them
How to raise outdoor-loving, independent kids? Ask the Germans.
Class sleepovers, transit trips without an adult, early lessons with fire. Sara Zaske’s ‘Achtung Baby’ explores the German approach to parenting.
Ontario election 2018: Childcare promises that Doug Ford, the NDP and the Liberals are making
Daycare in Ontario can cost parents as much as $20,000 a year. So which campaign promises for childcare make the most sense?
Kathleen Wynne’s re-election bid is off to a bad start
Jen Gerson: When you are seen to run a financially undisciplined nanny state, a pre-election spending spree is a bad idea
Ontario Liberals promise free preschool child care in 2020
Critics say it leaves parents with children younger than two-and-a-half with little relief