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Ontario extending $10/day child-care opt-in deadline to get more operators to apply
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Just a few weeks ahead of September, uptake varies widely across municipalities, with some — particularly smaller areas — seeing all or nearly all operators apply, while other regions are seeing less than half of operators applying so far… In Toronto, the largest region, 587 out of a total of 1,042 licensed child-care centres have applied to opt in — and 32 have opted out — though the percentage of for-profit operators that have applied is much lower than the non-profits.
Tags: child care, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Why doesn’t Canada let schools provide child care?
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Canada’s policy-makers could take lessons from other countries who have streamlined early learning and child care within their schools. Instead, they are putting up roadblocks, preventing provinces and territories from using federal child-care dollars to transform schools into one-stop centres for young children.
Tags: child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario’s for-profit child-care owners demonstrate why they can’t be trusted to build Canada’s $10-a-day child-care system
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
As families in Ontario wait for child care fee relief, some for-profit child care owners seem more interested in continuing the status quo of sky-high parent fees and rock bottom wages for early childhood educators. They take issue with the new Canada-wide child care system, complaining that it threatens their bottom lines. In doing so, they are proving exactly why they cannot be trusted to build Canada’s $10-a-day child care program. For them it’s profits over parents, every time.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Forget motives. The Trudeau government is getting it right on gun control
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
… it plans to introduce a national handgun “freeze” — not a ban — that will bar future sales, purchases, transfers and importation of handguns by anyone across the country… It would cap the number of handguns held legally by Canadians and prevent them from being sold or otherwise moved around. Over time it would reduce the number of legal guns that find their way into the illegal market and end up being used in crimes…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | 2 Comments »
US shootings: Norway and Finland have similar levels of gun ownership, but far less gun crime
Monday, May 30th, 2022
European societies that come close to US rates of gun ownership, in terms of gun owners per 100 people, (but with hunting rifles and shotguns rather than handguns), such as Finland and Norway, are among the safest societies internationally with regards to gun violence… Interestingly, the evidence is now indisputable that more guns in a given country translates directly into more gun violence.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction
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Canada Underinvests In Community Care
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
Canada’s per capita spending on homecare and other outpatient and day program services falls below the international average. In general, countries that direct higher proportions of health spending to seniors care than Canada also spend more per capita on home care, outpatient care and day programs for seniors.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, Seniors, standard of living
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How Baby Boomers will change the way Canadians die
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Expanding access not only to doctors and nurses but also to counsellors, social workers and grief experts, as well as special management of medications in the home environment where more people want to die is key, Sumner says… “One thing that members of my generation have taken for granted is that they’re in the driver’s seat as far as their lives are concerned,” he says. “I want to hope that they can drive a lot of this change as well.”
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Debates | 1 Comment »
Liberals promise to end for-profit long-term care in Ontario
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Calling the warehousing of seniors in long-term-care homes “one of the greatest mistakes” of the last century, Ontario’s Liberals are pledging a multibillion-dollar shift to caring for the elderly in their own homes as long as possible… The $2-billion “home-care-first” plan would provide more supports to seniors who could move on to smaller, more-homestyle facilities when they need higher levels of care…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, standard of living
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What Ontario parents really need to know about the new early learning and child care agreement
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
… with the largest share of the country’s youngest children, Ontario is creating only one new space for every 12 children under six years old in the province… the province will need another 9,000 ECEs, plus support workers to staff new classrooms. As the least generous supporter of its workforce, Ontario won’t achieve its goals until it gets serious about compensation… Increasing college enrolment only adds water to a bucket full of holes.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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On child care, don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
If the plan rolls out as described, it will improve early education for kids, cut costs for families at a time when they are badly pressed, and give the economy a boost by making it easier for women to participate fully in the workforce… All that being said, it’s still true that the Ontario deal is not all it could be. And, indeed, in some ways it is less than advertised… All this will be worked out in the years ahead.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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