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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‘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.”
Spring Update 2010
__________________________________________________________________________ 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.
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.
CTV Toronto “Ontario Parents Rally for more child care funding”
Parents rally for more child care funding at Queen’s Park “…dozens of children and their parents delivered giant beach balls to Premier Dalton McGuinty, their way of telling him that “the ball is in his court” when it comes to child care.”
School daycares face rent hike – Parent fees could rise by $4 per day
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 [...]
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 [...]
The City Budget 2010 – How safe are your Child Care Per Diems?
In the last several budgets, thanks to our advocacy, “approved rates” were received by Child Care programs with a PSA and Family Resource Programs in Toronto. And we have seen a commitment, from city politicians and staff in recent years to ensure that funding remains stable, BUT it is not something we can simply count [...]