Canada just celebrated National Child Day. Twenty-one years ago this coming Wednesday, Parliament promised to make child poverty history.
When will the government stop ignoring the needs of Canadian children?
Child Poverty
Speaking of family, I was able to spend some time this past summer in Temagami with Jack and baby Beatrice. After waiting for almost 2 years, my step daughter Sarah finally got a space for Beatrice at an excellent downtown, non-profit, school based, child care centre. But the wait should not have to be so long, [...]
As Canada welcomes the G8 and G20 member nations, long overdue attention will be focused on maternal health and decreasing the mortality rates of mothers and infants in developing countries. As we think about mothers abroad, we also need to address the lack of affordable, universal child care here at home.
Dear friends. The latest bi-annual report by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit highlighted how Canada literally cannot work without child care. More mothers are working while the growth of childcare spaces is slowing. These trends are bad for children, bad for families, and bad for the economy. Click here for the report highlights, and [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009, from 6:00 – 8:30 pm St. Stephen’s Community House, 91 Bellevue Avenue (1 block south of College)
The Initiative was launched to build a broad-based coalition of diverse stakeholders that are passionate about Canada becoming a world leader in making safe and healthy food available to all children and reshaping social, cultural, economic and environmental influences to optimally support child health. Founding supporters include Olivia Chow, MP (Trinity-Spadina), Breakfast for Learning, Foodshare [...]
For Immediate Release January 27, 2009-Ottawa “Children are not a priority for the current government,” laments Child care critic, Olivia Chow. “The entire world knows that we need to put our children first. Why isn’t the Conservative government getting the message?” said Chow.
November 21, 2008 – Ottawa Almost one child out of every nine in Canada lives in poverty. Yet, Stephen Harper’s Throne Speech failed to offer any commitment to alleviate the suffering of these children. Indexing the Universal Child Care Allowance to inflation at a time of economic crisis is an empty gesture. To “help” homeless [...]
