Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter Toronto parents Sarah Fittings and Mykola Jemetz struggle to pay annual daycare fees of more than $30,000 for their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old twin boys. So a city budget proposal that advocates say would add as much as $80 per child per month for parents in Toronto’s 373 school-based child [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
We Urge the City: Do NOT CUT any $$$s from CHILD CARE!
Our City’s Finance’s are in a critical state as a result of underfunding from the Province in many areas. The City’s Budget Committee has instructed staff in ALL Departments to find 5% savings in their 2010 budgets. . . In the City’s Operating Budget (released on February 16), the Children’s Services Budget includes a recommendation [...]
Subsidy cuts mean fewer daycare spots
Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter – Toronto Star Some of Toronto’s highest-needs neighbourhoods would be the biggest losers if… for more
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 [...]