“Women and children will suffer most”: Durham District School Board to shutter beloved childminding program for newcomers to Canada

Durham Region, ON – A beloved childminding program for newcomers to Canada will be closing its doors and laying off nine childminding professionals in the Durham region. The Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) offers free on-site childminding services for newcomer parents attending English language classes. The CNC has provided free childminding services for over 25…

Ontario families form Parents for Child Care; call for expanding and strengthening the $10aDay child care plan

TORONTO – Ontario families with young children are launching a new group today, Parents for Child Care, to add the important voices of families to child care policy debates. Parents for Child Care brings together Ontario families who support the $10aDay child care plan and want to see it strengthened and expanded. “Parents across the…

Child care operators, educators and parents distance themselves from group of for-profit child care owners’ campaign against $10-a-day child care

TORONTO – Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province. “It’s clear that there is growing backlash in the Ontario child care community against the tactics of this Alberta-backed group of for-profit child care owners this week,”…

“An unnecessary risk”: Over 140 organizations send Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith opposing his attempt to open up more of Ontario’s child care system to for-profit provision

TORONTO – Over 140 Ontario organizations – including small and large child care programs from across Ontario, churches, francophone associations, labour unions, post-secondary and research institutions – have come together to send an Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith today in response to his recent letter to federal Minister Jenna Sudds asking her…

With possible strike looming, day care workers deliver solidarity petition but management nowhere to be found

TORONTO – On Friday, as roughly 70 child care workers ran inventive, world-expanding programs, the President of CUPE 2484 attempted to hand deliver a message from workers and parents to the head office of Ideal Child Services Group. Management, though, was nowhere to be found, so Jess Tomas slid the petition and reams of signatures…