Martha Friendly

Martha is the founder and Executive Director of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit. She has authored numerous articles, chapters and reports on child care and a book on child care policy, and participates in several child care advocacy groups.

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Dear Hillary and Bernie: Can Canada hitch a ride on your child care coat-tails?

Martha Friendly

| May 19, 2016

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As a dual citizen who dutifully votes in U.S. presidential elections, I'm bowled over by the profusion of child-care commitments, comments and analyses emanating from south of the border. Child care is quite the election issue in the U.S., taking up much more space in this election campaign than in any other I remember.

Mansbridge to Trudeau: 'It's 2016. Isn't it time for a national daycare program?'

Martha Friendly

| February 4, 2016

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It wasn't surprising that child care was one of the topics Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed about last Sunday on CBC's Face to Face with the Prime Minister.

There are millions of families in all regions -- families like that of the CBC's representative young middle-class parent Jenna Fray -- who are struggling with child care. Parents cannot find and afford good quality child care for love or money.

A national child-care system: 'Because it's 2015'

Martha Friendly

| November 6, 2015

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The best line of the Trudeau government's first day -- widely reported and praised in the international media -- was the new PM's. In response to a reporter’s question about why he'd chosen to create a gender-parity cabinet, he rather matter of factly observed "because it's 2015."

Finally. 'Fertile ground' for a national child-care program

Martha Friendly

| October 16, 2015

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Why giving parents cash-for-child-care isn't the answer

Martha Friendly

| September 9, 2015

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Child care has become a key issue in Election 2015. To support the public interest and political debate, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit's blog, Child Care Now, will be published each week between August 12 and October 19. This is the fifth entry in the series.