Two provinces, opposite fixes, one set of hours
British Columbia is being asked to compel school districts to host care on school grounds. Manitoba is being asked to lengthen the school day so less …
Tag: National
The widest gap is in the care attached to school
Statistics Canada's study of who gets child care and who does not covers children aged one to five. Inside it, the care type where Indigenous and non-…
Twenty-two business leaders call early learning core economic infrastructure
An open letter signed by 22 Canadian business leaders asks the country to treat early childhood education as economic infrastructure, and names well-s…
What a school-age day costs, and who is counting
Ontario has put a number on before- and after-school care: $24.37 a day in licensed centres for children six to twelve, against $13.18 for kindergarte…
CCPA fee report: most Canadian families still pay well above $10 a day
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released its 2026 child care fee report on August 19, tracking median licensed fees across 35 major Canadian cities…
Ottawa invests $5.4M to strengthen the early childhood educator workforce
The Government of Canada has launched a new initiative to support the early childhood educator workforce, investing up to $5.4 million until March 31, 2027…
Ottawa commits up to $5.4B as CWELCC heads into renegotiation
The federal government has announced up to $5.4 billion over two years, covering 2026-27 and 2027-28, to maintain affordable early learning and child care while…
Now it’s Canada’s turn
The National AfterSchool Association reports that new US federal workforce priorities have started to line up with what the afterschool field has argued for years.…
Lawson Foundation: An Environmental Scan of Outdoor and Land-Based Early Learning in Canada
The Lawson Foundation has released a comprehensive new environmental scan of outdoor and land-based early learning in Canada, and it names a gap the sector…
StatCan: job quality shapes when mothers return to work after parental leave
A new Statistics Canada study released July 22 revisits when and whether mothers return to work after parental leave, with particular attention to Employment Insurance…