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What the world can teach Canada about building better daycare
The Swedes have a great system: universal, affordable, educational… Their head start was largely motivated by economic factors: Facing a labour shortage in the 1960s, Sweden needed mothers to work. But early support for gender equity and child development also played a role… Fees are charged on a sliding scale… but the average maximum charged is modest by Canadian standards – about $300 a month – and preschool is free for four- and five-year-olds.
Tags: child care, economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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The case for publicly funded child care in Canada
… Canada needs the skilled labour that affordable child care can create. Ottawa spends billions of dollars on Old Age Security, but high-quality, early childhood education – which experts agree would help mothers pursue careers, boost the birth rate, ease family stress, reduce poverty and improve success in school – isn’t even on the table… More than two-thirds of Canadian women with children under the age of five are in the workforce. And Canada needs them to be there…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Better daycare for $7/day: One province’s solution for Canada
Quebec’s program is about more than just affordable daily care. It is a wildly ambitious experiment in society-building – a controversial $2.2-billion bet that better daycare can not only transform child development but also vastly improve the prospects of women and the poor, and build a better labour force… And more than 15 years after it was launched by Premier Pauline Marois, then a cabinet minister, the results of Quebec’s big gamble are increasingly evident – a big payoff both in social and economic terms.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Is federal child care benefit good use of tax dollars?
Ottawa can’t say if the money has eased the severe shortage of child care in Canada where more than three-quarters of mothers with young families work and where there are licensed spots for only 21 per cent of kids under age 12… It doesn’t know if the money has made child care more affordable… Ottawa should be accounting for the money it is already spending before promising more.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, women
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Why breastfeeding breaks pay off
In Canada, there is no guaranteed right for working mothers to take short breaks from work to breastfeed or express milk… Canada is an outlier — paid breastfeeding breaks are guaranteed in 130 countries and unpaid breaks in an additional seven. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, even the U.S. makes this guarantee… Breastfeeding is an important health-promoting step both for women’s health and that of their infants
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, rights, women
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Daycare is a necessity
A recent study conducted by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada… suggests parents themselves should look after children six and under… Home care may be the ideal, but in the real world I believe the government is right to fund daycare and provide safe spaces for children to grow and flourish. This is a response to necessity rather than preferential treatment for daycare facilities.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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How about human rights at home?
No government in Canadian history has so abused the rules of Parliament, or shown such contempt for honesty and transparency as the government of Stephen Harper. No other government has ever gone after civil dissent in such an aggressive and menacing way as Stephen Harper. He has made cuts to a host of groups fighting for childcare rights, to 16 separate organizations struggling for women’s rights; to agencies working for a better democracy, to First Nations Organizations, to immigrant groups, to research groups…
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Women struggle in information vacuum
“The difficulty of collecting data about violence against women has been a barrier… However, the data that do exist tell us three things very clearly: this problem is big, it comes at a high cost, and we are making little or no progress in putting a stop to it.”… This problem is going to worsen as Statistics Canada keeps phasing out surveys
Tags: crime prevention, rights, women
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Premiers urged to make daycare a priority at annual conference
… the Canadian Child Care Federation and the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada are calling on the premiers to work together on a “pan-Canadian” plan. The premiers should also push Ottawa to play its “appropriate financial and policy roles” to ensure children and families have access to this essential social support…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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One child, one teacher, one pen and one book
Yousafzai called for “a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.” The Nobel Peace Prize nominee said “the extremists were afraid of education. That is why they’re blasting schools every day… ”For radical Islamists, however, women’s emancipation is the dividing line between modernization and Westernization… even jihadists want modern technology, especially weapons and communication devices, but they don’t want the West’s cultural ideas…
Tags: globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, women
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