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Budget promises child care but misses opportunities in care economy
Marjorie Griffin Cohen | This budget addresses one of the very crucial care issues that the Liberal Party has promised many, many times over many, many years -- child care.
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We need a better and more caring economy
Colleen Fuller | If you had to choose between fighter jets we don't need and doubling one year's worth of education, health care, social services and equalization payments for all Canadians, which would it be?
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A new vision for the role of care in Canada
Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Armine Yalnizyan, Leah Vosko | If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country.
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It's time to pivot to the care economy and invest in care
Armine Yalnizyan | The care economy could power a better life, not just a bigger economy, if we address issues revealed by the pandemic.
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Canada's she-cession: COVID-19, care work and the decline of the service sector
Naomi Lightman, Ted McCoy | When labour is feminized, it is structurally undervalued and even delegitimized. The COVID-19 crisis further exposes the ways that this process puts workers in harm's way.
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Growth spurt: What skyrocketing child-care fees mean for families
Erika Shaker | There is no national system of public, universally accessible child care in Canada. Here's what that has meant for thousands of families, by the numbers.
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Count care in: The new social wealth economic indicators
Kellia Ramares-Watson | The new social wealth economic indicators show the connection between the status of women and the health of a nation's economy.
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Making childcare integral to our movements: The Montreal Childcare Collective
Scott Neigh | Noah Eidelman talks about the Montreal Childcare Collective's efforts to make care work integral to how radical organizing happens in Montreal.