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Posted on apolitical.

Excerpt: "“What really spurred the development of early childhood policy in Canada was the OECD country profile,” said Kerry McCuaig, a Fellow in Early Childhood Policy at the University of Toronto. “It had been entirely an afterthought in terms of public policy.” Along with her colleagues at the ¥������ (OISE), McCuaig has recently released the Early Childhood Education Report 2017, providing an update on what's been achieved since. Encouragingly, the report finds that more than half of Canadian pre-schoolers now attend an early education program before starting school, up from around 20% in 2008. Meanwhile, provinces and territories have been increasing spending on early childhood since a national framework was introduced in 2006: from C$2.5b ($1.98b) in 2004 to C$10.9b ($8.6b) a decade later."

Excerpt: "Ontario is expanding culturally relevant licensed child care and early years programs, and investing in more child care spaces for First Nation, Métis and Inuit children and their families living in urban and rural areas across the province."

Excerpt: "The agreement allocates slightly more than $7 million to Yukon over three years for early learning and child care investments. Yukon’s Action Plan outlines how these funds will be invested. This funding will provide additional child care subsidy supports for grandparents who take care of their grandchildren, increase resources to assist Early Childhood Educators, help retain trained early childhood staff, and increase support to improve inclusive child care programming for children who are most in need."

Posted on The Conversation.

Excerpt: "A trend is emerging in education in Canada: We are recognizing that early childhood education is beneficial for children, for families, for everyone.

Provinces and territories are focusing more attention on programs for preschoolers and the federal government is prepared to invest billions of dollars in child care in the coming decade."

Emis Akbari discusses the design of the 2017 Early Childhood Education Report.

Kerry McCuaig discusses trends in the 2017 Early Childhood Education Report.

Honourable Margaret McCain expressed her gratitude for the Early Childhood Education Report.

With the release of the Early Childhood Education Report 2017, the Honourable Margaret McCain discusses the impacts of Early Childhood Education.

Marcel Lauzière, CEO, The Lawson Foundation.

Excerpt: "In addition to the multi-year bilateral funding, your government is also investing $28 million to support wage increases for early childhood educators. This funding will be rolled out over four years beginning in 2019–2020 and raise wages from $16 an hour to $19 an hour for trained early childhood educators by 2022–2023."

Cathy Crowe, OISE alum, well-known Toronto street nurse, and activist, was among 47 invested into the Order of Canada.

Excerpt: "The provincial government announced today that families with children aged five and under attending a designated New Brunswick Early Learning Centre will not pay more than 20 per cent of their income for child care."