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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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’?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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May 5, 2022: Ontario’s regional managers key to restricting for-profit child care
- April 28, 2022: Have a heart for an ECE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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)
2020
- December 10, 2020: COVID spending can entrench racism
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December 3, 2020: Five years of 'visioning' isn't child care
- November 26, 2020: The unacknowledged partnership of mothers and ECEs
- November 19, 2020: Public child care is a public service, not a business
- November 12, 2020: Pandemic restrictions disproportionately disadvantage the young
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November 5, 2020: Helping families navigate the latest COVID surge
- October 29, 2020: Protecting democracy during the pandemic
- October 22, 2020: Is your child care safe? Questions to ask your child´s educator
- October 15, 2020: COVID shows why child care needs to be free
- October 8, 2020: Responding to the child care workforce crisis by dumbing down the requirements
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October 1, 2020: Child care plan must satisfy both parents and educators
- September 24, 2020: Don´t let profit trump kids
- September 17, 2020: Canadians shouldn´t get complacent about COVID, neither should governments
- September 10, 2020: Don´t just reopen, rethink child care
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September 3, 2020: To open school doors are we prepared to close others?
- August 27, 2020: Responding to children’s concerns may ease back to class transition
- August 20, 2020: Very early returns find children resilient to COVID-19
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August 6, 2020: Why are child care programs open while schools are not?
- July 30, 2020: Is COVID in child care a warning for schools?
- July 23, 2020: Everyone wants schools and child care open but how?
- July 9, 2020: The Catch-22 facing parents and educators
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July 2, 2020
- June 18, 2020
- June 11, 2020
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June 4, 2020
- May 28, 2020
- May 21, 2020
- May 14, 2020
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May 7, 2020
- April 30, 2020
- April 23, 2020
- April 16, 2020
- April 9, 2020
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April 2, 2020
- March 26, 2020
- March 19, 2020
- March 12, 2020
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March 5, 2020
- February 27, 2020
- February 20, 2020
- February 13, 2020
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February 6, 2020
- January 30, 2020
- January 23, 2020
- January 16, 2020