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The Atkinson Centre produces a weekly e-Newsletter, sharing Research & Resouces, News items, and Events related to Early Childhood Education and Family Support.

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2023

September 21, 2023: When profit and care mix, bad things happen
September 14, 2023: The reward for success: a slow internet
September 7, 2023: What’s the problem with the early childhood workforce?
August 31, 2023: Child care investors are buyers not builders
August 24, 2023: PEI getting it right from the start
August 17, 2023: Reflections on the ECE workforce
August 10, 2023: Watch for quick fixes to child care shortages
August 3, 2023: Calls continue for the province to do more to address a workforce crisis in child care
July 27, 2023: The new child care owners
July 20, 2023: New Brunswick: Maintaining the child care market
July 13, 2023: Lessons from the UK’s child care reforms
July 6, 2023: Mayor Chow – Wow!
June 29, 2023: Child care and Canada's Workforce
June 22, 2023: Interest rates are a child care problem
June 15, 2023: CWELCC in danger
June 8, 2023: What’s a wage grid, and how much do they cost?
June 1, 2023: Lessons from Quebec?
May 25, 2023: Heavy fines don’t deter poor quality child care
May 11, 2023: Is CWELCC passing by children with special needs?
May 4, 2023: Conflicting trends in half-way report card on CWELCC
April 27, 2023: Funding for quality
April 20, 2023: Time for some good news
April 13, 2023: From the front lines
April 6, 2023: Leave no child behind
March 30, 2023: A start for educators in Newfoundland and Labrador
March 23, 2023: The Benefit of Benefits
March 16, 2023: Canada has a child care surplus. We need educators.
March 9, 2023: Inclusive child care must support children with disabilities
March 2, 2023: Securing the future for ECEs
February 23, 2023: Have your say about Canada’s child care
February 16, 2023: The numbers say it all
February 9, 2023: Keep big box child care in its box
February 2, 2023: With $Billions on offer, capital comes sniffing
January 26, 2023: Public and private spending on elementary and secondary schools, 2020/2021
January 19, 2023: There are solutions to ECE shortages
January 12, 2023: B.C. early childhood educator report finds 45% of employers losing staff
January 5, 2023: What’s happening to the public in child care?

2022

December 8, 2022: Who benefits from $10 a day care?
December 1, 2022: The trouble with wage grids
November 24, 2022: Women are struggling to regain lost ground in the workforce after COVID-19
November 17, 2022: Yikes! Is this where we’re headed?
November 10, 2022: Who’s really ‘for the kids’?
November 3, 2022: Ontario opens up to corporate care: Where’s Ottawa?
October 27, 2022: Give Them an Inch and They’ll Take a Mile: The Story of For-Profit Child Care in Ontario
October 20, 2022: Early Learning and Child Care in Canada: Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going?
October 13, 2022: Government of Canada invests $3.1 million to study impacts of COVID-19 on children in Canada
October 6, 2022: National child care doesn’t include businesses run for profit
September 29, 2022: Odds Stacked Against Mothers Re-Entering the Job Market. Here’s Why.
September 22, 2022: Staff shortage temporarily closes Sarnia childcare centre
September 15, 2022: Sign-on to green child care
September 8, 2022: It’s time to join the union
September 1, 2022: For-profit child care: What the agreements say
August 25, 2022: Will Ottawa let Ontario flout for-profit rules?
August 18, 2022: More needed to recruit and keep ECEs
August 11, 2022: Canada can deliver ELCC for all kids
August 4, 2022: Canada’s ELCC can learn from Spain
July 28, 2022: COVID could wash out school opening plans
July 21, 2022: A little kindness helps
July 14, 2022: Educators need mental health supports
July 7, 2022: ECEs have the power
June 30, 2022: It’s a good time to be an ECE
June 23, 2022: Child care, who is it for?
June 16, 2022: Signs of extra-billing need extra oversight
June 9, 2022: How much child care can $625 million buy?
June 2, 2022: Let’s build it green!
May 19, 2022: Yell to save our planet
May 12, 2022: 3% for Ontario’s child care workforce
May 5, 2022: Ontario’s regional managers key to restricting for-profit child care
April 28, 2022: Have a heart for an ECE
April 7, 2022: Feedback supports continuation of ECER
March 31, 2022: What's the deal?
March 24, 2022: Speed bumps ahead
March 17, 2022: Lower child care fees ease inflation woes
March 10, 2022: To Act, or not to Act
March 3, 2022: Child care rebate cheques for some while Ontario parents get fee hikes
February 24, 2022: Want to recruit ECEs? Make them happy
February 17, 2022: Children need to be central to child care legislation
February 10, 2022: Child care fee subsidies need fixing
February 3, 2022: Establishing a decent wage in child care
January 27, 2022: The numbers don't lie
January 20, 2022: Winners all round in Nova Scotia’s child care plan
January 13, 2022: FDK no roadblock to child care deal for Ontario
January 6, 2022: Will Canada’s child care deal hurt or heal the planet?

2021

December 9, 2021: Affordable child care should apply to all
December 2, 2021
November 25, 2021: Young and poor in Canada
November 18, 2021: What’s up with Ontario?
November 11, 2021: The public advantage in child care
November 4, 2021: A prescription for the childcare workforce
October 28, 2021: What about wages?
October 21, 2021: Research informing ELCC policy and practice
October 14, 2021: The home childcare alternative
October 7, 2021: Does home care fit in Canada’s new early learning and care system?

September 30, 2021: A day to face the whole truth
September 23, 2021: There are so many big promises to keep
September 16, 2021: News Flash! Tax credits did not ‘save’ Quebec child care
September 9, 2021: The kids are not that resilient
September 2, 2021
August 26, 2021: Ontario’s child care tax credit exposes the flaws in O’Toole’s plan
August 19, 2021: Time to rethink parental leave
August 12, 2021: Provincial holdouts gamble over delaying child care funds
August 5, 2021: What’s up in New Brunswick?
July 29, 2021: Atlantic Canada takes child care gold
July 22, 2021: We need evidence to get ‘back to normal’
July 15, 2021: Nova Scotia’s child care plan a template for future agreements
July 8, 2021: System development needs strong public management
June 24, 2021: Canada's middling response to young children
June 17, 2021: Children and entrepreneurs don't mix
June 10, 2021: The hidden fragility of child care
June 3, 2021: First round of federal spending spurs big increases for child care
May 27, 2021: Kids are not for profit
May 20, 2021: The Yukon, Canada's new leader in early learning and care
May 13, 2021: Getting the foundations in place for quality ELCC
May 6, 2021: Balancing affordability, access, quality
April 29, 2021: Budget 2021 answers
April 22, 2021: Getting child care right from the start
April 15, 2021: The Public Advantage in Child Care
April 8, 2021: Yo-yo policy responses harm families
April 1, 2021: Investing in early childhood critical after COVID-19
March 25, 2021: Invest in Early Learning and Child Care – for kids, for women, for families, for Canada's economic recovery
March 18, 2021: Child care vacancies expose fault lines
March 11, 2021: What's the deal with cookie cutters?
March 4, 2021: Next steps for early learning and child care
February 25, 2021: Child care, the last stand against women's job loss
February 18, 2021: Which model of child care to choose?
February 11, 2021: New variants don’t change COVID precautions
February 4, 2021: Addressing child care affordability

January 28, 2021: No need to invent a new child care strategy
January 21, 2021: Acting now to protect children could avoid the next pandemic
January 14, 2021: Parents running out of choices, as schools remain closed
January 7, 2021: 2021 starts much like 2020 (or worse)