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.
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2010 Child Care Raffle THE WINNERS
Here are the winners for the 2010 TCBCC Child Care Raffle! Congratulations to all the winners! WINNERS 2010 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 [...]
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.
Proposal would nix rent control for daycares
SIRI AGRELL, Globe and Mail Cash-strapped school boards could double rent charged to child-care facilities, a cost that would be passed on to parents. A proposal to end a rent-control agreement for city child-care facilities could cause the costs to families to spiral upward, say critics of a budget proposal. The children’s services department has [...]
CityTV “Massive Deficit Won’t Stop Spending on Child Care, Ignatieff vows”
CityNews reports on the attempts to differentiate between Liberal and Conservative governance with regard to budget deficits and whether or not social spending will suffer. “Michael Ignatieff says a Liberal government would pour money into child care and early childhood education, no matter how deep a financial hole the Tories may have dug the country [...]