Carolyn Ferns

Ontario squandering its chance to be a leader on child care

Child Care Canada Now — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:46:28 +0000

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The 2016 Ontario budget wasted a golden opportunity for leadership on developing the national early learning and child care plan that Ontario families need. Chapter four of the Ontario budget is dedicated to detailing Ontario's priorities for collaborative action with the federal government but is silent on the National Early Learning and Child Care Framework promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Right-wing think tank miraculously makes child care space shortages disappear

Child Care Canada Now — Mon, 11 May 2015 20:54:21 +0000

How about that? With an exposé by one right-wing think-tank and two comment pieces in a right-wing newspaper about the exposé by the right-wing think-tank, child care space shortages as a problem for parents have been made to disappear! Parents must be rejoicing.

Had we pesky "daycare proponents" only known -- rather than harping on the problems of space shortages, high fees, inequity and uneven quality -- we might have sat at the feet of the miracle workers who managed this, applied their magic and space shortages could have been vanished just like that! Poof! Gone!

Childcare community asks: What have we done to deserve this?!

Child Care Canada Now — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:28:50 +0000

GUEST POST BY ADVOCATES FOR PROGRESSIVE CHILD CARE POLICY:

We’re Advocates for Progressive Childcare Policy (APCP) and we organized our first event last night.

Another February 6: One more year -- and what do we get? (Not more and better child care)

Child Care Canada Now — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:46:36 +0000

Another February 6th, and for those of us in the child care community, it’s a time to reflect on Canada’s close-but-no-cigar national child care program. You remember, right?

Everyone knows the story -- after years of advocacy for a national child care program, it seemed that one would really materialize. But the story ended with a clunk for children and families when the Harper Conservatives won the January 2006 federal election and cancelled the bilateral agreements between the federal government and the provinces/territories that Ken Dryden had spent months negotiating.