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Toronto Open Budget Initiative
Jane Mercer, Executive Coordinator of TCBCC, spoke as a panelist at the Toronto Open Budget Initiative (TOBI) event. Raising the concerns of the childcare community to mayoral and councillor candidates about the need for community participation in the city’s budget process. Continue reading →
2010 Child Care Raffle THE WINNERS
Here are the winners for the 2010 TCBCC Child Care Raffle! Congratulations to all the winners!
Thank you to all participants for supporting the Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care’s 2010 Child Care Raffle!
With your help, we are able to continue working towards a system of high quality Early Childhood Education and Care for children and families in Toronto.
Full day Kindergarten. Update from Newsroom
MORE ONTARIO CHILDREN IN FULLY DAY KINDERGARTEN
MORE ONTARIO FAMILIES WILL BE ABLE TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO KINDERGARTEN FOR THE FULL DAY NEXT YEAR. Continue reading →
Teacher and ECE Partnerships in Full Day Learning
Partnerships are what makes it all work; Proponents of all-day care say kids benefit when teachers and early childhood educators co-operate, Matthew Pearson reports.
“Daycares worry about ‘destabilization’
“Kindergarten changes jeopardize the system: Deans”
The Ottawa Citizen reports “Concern about steep fee increases and the possible closure of child-care centres is mounting across the province as the clock ticks toward the September implementation of Ontario’s new all-day kindergarten. Continue reading →
‘Quarrelsome’ Liberals don’t fracture party’s vision: Ignatieff
National Post reports,
TORONTO — Michael Ignatieff fired back at accusations of a divided Liberal party Monday night, calling it a large “quarrelsome, argumentative” family — not without its characters — but adding that divisions in the party don’t change the Liberals’ position as “progressive centre of Canada.” Continue reading →
Spring Update 2010
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Provincial Budget 2010
contains 63.5 million in core child care funding
After a spectacular amount of pressure from the community (11,000 names on the OCBCC petition) Premier McGuinty has committed $63.5 million in permanent funding in Ontario’s 2010 budget. Continue reading →
Child Care Raffle 2010
The Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care
Child Care Raffle 2010
A fabulous fundraising opportunity for your program!
This is the perfect time to participate in an exciting joint fundraiser for child care programs, FRP’s, early years agencies, and the TCBCC! This will be our 14th consecutive year of collaborating with Toronto’s Early Learning & Child Care community to raise much needed funds for programs like yours and the important advocacy work of the TCBCC! Make sure that your program is a part of this exciting event! Great prizes include: a Muskoka getaway; Downtown Hotel packages; Fitness Club memberships; spa, restaurant, and theatre packages; exciting family entertainment; children’s books and CD’s; and more! Over 120 prizes in total!
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News From Queen’s Park
In today’s news – Bill 242 passes third reading at Queen’s Park.
Transition funding for child care in Ontario was announced. As well, licensed child care was moved to the new early years division. Continue reading →