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Get going on housing
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial
Published On Mon Feb 08 2010
The Liberals have introduced two important measures that will help lift some families out of poverty, including a plan to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent and full-day kindergarten. But the lack of sufficient affordable housing will undermine both those efforts. How can children do well in school if they are routinely evicted from their homes? How can a parent train for better jobs if they’re already working at two just to keep a roof over their heads?
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Daycare in Toronto is expensive and hard to find
TheStar.com – Opinion/parentcentral.ca
February 05, 2010. Audrey Wubbenhorst
Daycare in Toronto is extremely difficult to find, not to mention unaffordable. The “waiting lists” are hardly transparent. To find a spot requires perseverance and continual lobbying.
My story highlights some of the problems with this system. I can only imagine the difficulty in finding a subsidized spot, which are even fewer and farther between.
The $100 Universal Child Care Benefit we get from the federal government each month covers just less than one day at some city-run daycares. The maximum tax deduction you can make for child care is $7,000 per child.
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Ignatieff ‘s bad idea [a national child-care system]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial
Published February 3, 2010
Rather than deal with the issues Canadians say are at the top of their agenda, such as the economy and crime, he apparently wants to make a splash with a shiny new coast-to-coast program that steers our country in a more top-heavy, statist direction. That simply isn’t what Canadian families want, or need.
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Liberals would boost child care despite deficit
TheGlobeandMail.com – News/Politics – Ignatieff says he can’t yet put price tag on early-learning programs that would further ‘social justice’
Ottawa – Published on Monday, Feb. 01, 2010. Last updated on Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2010. Gloria Galloway
The Liberal Leader told reporters yesterday that there is no better way to increase productivity, social justice and equality across the country than by putting money into programs that give children a head start.
Mr. Ignatieff would not put a price tag on the kind of child-care program he envisions, saying that it would depend on the financial situation at the time his party took power.
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Daycare tops Liberal agenda
TheStar.com – News/ParentCentral/Education
February 02, 2010. Susan Delacourt Ottawa Bureau
A national child-care program will be put in place by a future Liberal government, no matter how bare the fiscal cupboard may be, leader Michael Ignatieff has promised.
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Ontario eyes lower child care standards
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral.ca – January 27, 201. Laurie Monsebraaten Proposed changes to Ontario Day Nurseries Act The following proposals are contained in a ministry of children and youth services discussion paper Age groupings and group size Current Regulations •Under 18 months of age, maximum group size 10 (infant) •18 months of age and over […]
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All-day kindergarten under threat?
TheStar.com – GTA/ParentCentral.ca – January 26, 201. Laurie Monsebraaten, SOCIAL JUSTICE REPORTER Big-box child care is setting up shop in Canada and critics worry it will undermine quality, scuttle chances for a national daycare program and thwart provincial plans for all-day kindergarten. The new company, Edleun Inc., has “identified a large and growing supply […]
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5,000 child-care subsidies at risk, city report warns
TheStar.com – GTA/parentcentral.ca – 5,000 child-care subsidies at risk, city report warns
January 1, 2010. Laurie Monsebraaten, SOCIAL JUSTICE REPORTER
Each new year seems to bring a new child-care crisis for Toronto and 2010 isn’t any different.
City officials say Toronto will be forced to slash 5,000 daycare subsidies over the next two years, if Queen’s Park doesn’t address long-standing underfunding and replace $15.4 million in federal child-care funds set to run out April 1.
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The CAS shortfall
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – The CAS shortfall
Published On Mon Dec 21 2009
There is no better example of a failed system than this: a children’s agency serving remote native communities where 13 teenagers have committed suicide this year cannot afford to pay its social workers.
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Suicides turn focus on stricken north [Children’s Aid]
TheStar.com – Ontario – Suicides turn focus on stricken north: Plight of First Nations children’s aid societies to get special attention in provincial review
Published On Sat Dec 19 2009. By Tanya Talaga Queen’s Park Bureau
Ontario will place special focus on the plight of First Nations children’s aid societies when the province reviews the laws that govern child welfare, youth justice and adoption practices next year, the Star has learned.
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