Récits/nouvelles

Dans les Nouvelles — 11 septembre 2024

Rianne Mahon awarded Ursula Franklin in Gender Studies

Rianne Mahon has been honoured with the Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies from the Royal Society of Canada, for her research on the politics of childcare policy development and how governments and organizations are responding to women’s rising labour force participation rates.

Dans les Nouvelles — 10 septembre 2024

Morna Ballantyne addresses federal cabinet retreat

The Liberal Party held its annual Cabinet retreat in Halifax, Nova Scotia from August 25 to 27, 2024. Morna Ballantyne, Executive Director of Child Care Now, was invited to be part of an expert panel on fairness for all generations. Ballantyne provided an analysis of the progress and challenges in the implementation of the Canada-wide early learning and child care program since 2021, and made recommendations on how the federal government can further strengthen and sustain the system.

Dans les Nouvelles — 6 septembre 2024

Sophie Mathieu on workplace flexibility and back to school

Sophie Mathieu discusses how workplace flexibility can have a significant impact on parents with school aged children.

Dans les Nouvelles — 5 septembre 2024

Gordon Cleveland on $10-a-day childcare versus financial assistance

Gordon Cleveland has authored a report for The Prosperity Project, entitled « Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2023 », which finds that Canadian parents have a strong preference for affordable, $10-a-day licensed child care over individual payments delivered to them from the government.

Dans les Nouvelles — 28 août 2024

The Childcare Resource and Research Unit releases Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2023

This report focuses on regulated child care, provincial/territorial level information on kindergarten, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit child care, space and enrolment statistics, parent fees, the child care workforce, ELCC funding, and pertinent demographic data.

Nouvelles RS/T — 6 août 2024

RS/T Bulletin no 5

Dans les Nouvelles — 27 juin 2024

Martha Friendly Awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer

Martha Friendly has been awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer for propelling the importance of child care not only for the benefits it accrues to children, but also for its necessity for Canadian families, and particularly for women’s equality.

Dans les Nouvelles — 21 juin 2024

Kim de Laat’s article nominated for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family

Kim de Laat’s article “Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality” was selected as a nominee for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family. This award is presented to author(s) of the best research paper published in a given year.

Dans les Nouvelles — 23 mai 2024

Peter Moss publishes book on Early Childhood in the Anglosphere

Written by two leading international experts, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of ‘childcare’ services, widespread privatisation and marketisation, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems, and the causes and consequences of these failings.

Dans les Nouvelles — 21 mai 2024

Armine Yalnizyan receives the prestigious biennial Galbraith Prize in Economics from the Progressive Economics Forum

The prize recognizes her lifetime efforts to build a better economy. She accepted the prize and delivered a lecture at the Canadian Economics Association on May 21 at Toronto Metropolitan University