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Data crimes and misdemeanors: Why child care, too, needs the long-form census
Martha Friendly | Martha Friendly explains why the CRRU is supporting Ted Hsu's private member's bill calling for restoration of Canada's long-form census.
Podcast
Putting a gender lens on municipal issues
Redeye Collective | City councils need to consider the particularities of women's lives, according to Ellen Woodsworth of Women Transforming Cities. Housing, transit, emergency preparedness all need a gender lens.
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Dear 99%: Universal child care? No thanks, we're good. Sincerely, the 1%
Erika Shaker | Welcome to the kinder, gentler individualism, where poor-bashing is replaced with poor-benevoling. It was on display in mid-October when the federal NDP introduced its plan for $15/day child care.
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Uniting the haves and have-nots of Canadian childcare
Nora Loreto | How do we push the NDP to improve their childcare strategy while supporting their efforts?
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National child care good for the economy says NDP. Conservatives break out election spin.
Karl Nerenberg | NDPers proposes a program to create a million child care spaces at the end of eight years, costing the federal government $1.90 billion. It’s a big number; but they argue it will boost the economy.
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Childcare community asks: What have we done to deserve this?!
Carolyn Ferns, Sinead Rafferty, Allyson Cullen | We’re Advocates for Progressive Childcare Policy (APCP) and we organized a public forum last night to discuss Ontario’s childcare regulations. Boring, right? Turns out, not so much.
Podcast
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.
Columnists
A number is never just a number: In search of child care
Hennessy's Index | This month, Hennessy's Index examines the state of child care in Canada by the numbers.
Blog
Hill Dispatches: A budget that favours the environment, the poor and the struggling middle class
Karl Nerenberg | The CCPA's 2012 Alternative Federal Budget boldly proposes an inheritance tax, a carbon tax, eliminating the capital gains tax benefit and many social and job-creating investments.