ChildCare 2020

11/25/2014

Today we received this wonderful thank you card from the makers of this wonderful PSAC video explaining ChildCare2020's vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Q51UQcDgI

11/17/2014

Childcare could become a key election battleground for the Liberals and NDP, and spur a game of one-upmanship between the two parties, Ken Dryden says.

11/17/2014

Child Care 2020, is Canada’s largest child care conference in a decade.

The conference kicked off in Winnipeg on November 13 bringing together a diverse group of nearly 600 early childhood and child care educators, academic and policy researchers, parents and community, union and political leaders all with a shared goal – a universal early learning and child care system. Read the story: https://cupe.ca/universal-child-care-necessary-canada.

Child care 2020 est le plus gros colloque canadien sur les services de garde en dix ans.

Depuis le 13 novembre, il réunit à Winnipeg près de 600 éducatrices et éducateurs de la petite enfance et en garderie, des universitaires, des chercheurs, des parents et des dirigeants communautaires, syndicaux et politiques. Tous partagent un même but : la création d’un système universel de garderies. Lire : https://scfp.ca/le-canada-besoin-dun-programme-universel-de-services-de-garde.

PHOTOS: LEIF NORMAN http://www.leifnorman.net

11/17/2014

Discussions at never stopped from beginning to end (Check out CUPE's FaceBook page for some great pictures). https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152863419299804.1073741898.23543314803&type=1

11/16/2014

Watch the animated video of ChildCare2020's vision of what we want and what we need from governments to get there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Q51UQcDgI

http://childcare2020.ca/ What could childcare look like in 2020, if our federal and provincial governments actually invested in a universal and affordable sy...

11/16/2014

CTV News Channel interviews Canadian Resources and Research Unit's Martha Friendly via FaceTime during ChildCare2020 http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=490947

Childcare Resorce & Research Unit Founder Martha Friendly discusses issues facing parents needing childcare and what the summit plans to do.

11/16/2014

Watch ChileCare2020 conference co-chair on Winnipeg's CTV News program http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=491473

Early childhood educator, Dominique Arbez, talks about the challenges Manitobans face when it comes to childcare and how to create change.

11/16/2014

NDP, Liberal leaders address conference, Tories fail to show up

11/16/2014

Check out this BuzzFeed article on some of the highlights. What was your favourite conference moment?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/childcare2020/10-times-childcare2020-totally-blew-our-minds-yyqn

Canada's national conference on child care policy was this week, and the country paid attention. Turns out, we actually didn't know that much about child care policy before. We really shoul...

11/16/2014

"Canada ought to be one of the best places in the world to raise a family." -- Paul Kershaw.

11/16/2014

The Toronto Star shares one of the messages from yesterday's panel: “Too many children are simply going without quality child care, the foundation for early learning. In a country as wealthy as Canada, in the 21st century, that’s simply unacceptable.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/14/canada_needs_15aday_child_care_mulcair_advocates.html?app=noRedirect

Finding decent child care in Canada is like “winning the lottery” NDP leader says

11/15/2014

Yesterday, peaked as the second most trending topic on Twitter in all of Canada. Here's why.

https://storify.com/childcare2020/childcare2020-november-13/

Yesterday, peaked as the second most trending topic on Twitter in all of Canada. Here's why.