What's happening at CRRU?
International Women's Day 2022 (March 8) will be celebrated this year with events and marches starting Saturday, 5 March 2022. To find International Women's Day events near you, visit the International Women's Day website and search for events in your local community.
The CRRU office—temporarily closed to ensure the health and safety of its staff—will be reopening next week. For now, the CRRU team can be reached contactus@childcarecanada.org.
Featured
Video: Supporting families and growing the economy: The importance of a Canada-wide early learning and child care system
Minister Karina Gould at the Empire Club of Canada, 28 February 2022
The Minister of Children, Families and Social Development describes the federal government's Canada-wide plans to build a universal child care system and takes questions from the audience about the status of federal/provincial agreements and their implementation.
Update on BC’s early learning and child care plan
Child Care Now, 25 February 2022
BC child care advocates have updated their roadmap to guide construction of a comprehensive high quality system of early learning and child care in the province.
Over to you, Doug Ford: MP says childcare ball in premier's court
London Free Press, 23 February 2022
An ecocultural consideration of Sámi early childhood education
European Journal of Education Studies, 31 January 2022
This study examines early childhood education for the Sámi people—the EU's only Indigenous people, who live in the Nordic countries' Arctic region and in Russia. It describes Sámi ECE using an eco-cultural point of view and Sámi early childhood educators' narratives. The authors illustrate how Sámi educators' actions connect to their Indigenous culture and its inherent focus on and respect for nature. Findings suggest that the recurring theme of nature provides a ground for culturally sustainable ECEC that is rooted in land learning and strong relationships with nature.
Research, policy and practice
The role of the early childhood educator in British Columbia
Early Childhood Educators of BC, February 2022
In light of a new Early Childhood Educator Act, this paper envisions the roles of early childhood educators in BC. It is oriented to educators' engagement in ethical, transformative pedagogical practice. This perspective aligns with the view of early childhood education as a public good rather than a market commodity and quality as more than a model of cost efficiency and minimum universal standards.
Awakening Indigenous knowledge: Perspectives and experiences of Indigenous early childhood education diploma students
McGill Journal of Education, 15 February 2022
The authors analyze discussion amongst four Indigenous early childhood educators in an Ontario Indigenous post-secondary diploma program. It notes they felt they brought limited knowledge of their Indigenous language and culture to their program and experienced an awakening of Indigenous knowledge through participation in Indigenous practices outside the core curriculum. The authors argue for Indigenous community-generated curricula that embody local Indigenous cultural knowledge, values, and practices, as an important contribution to Indigenous cultural revitalization.
“The forgotten ones”—The economic well-being of early educators during COVID-19
Center for Study of Child Care Employment (Berkeley University), 16 February 2022
This US report provides a detailed look at the well-being of the California child care workforce through the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. The study's findings suggest that compared to all working adults in California, the child care workforce earns lower wages and works precarious hours. As a result their economic well-being suffers. The report includes six policy recommendations to address the workforce crisis in the short and long term.
Defining and measuring access to child care and early education with families in mind
US Department of Health & Human Services, 8 February 2022
This research uses a multi-dimensional access framework and data from the 2012 National Study of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to model the complexity of access to early childhood education and care families across the United States. The analysis of each access dimension (overall availability, affordability, child development support, meeting families’ needs) indicates that child care access needs to be assessed by policymakers in all dimensions and requires tailored solutions dependent on families’ needs and preferences.
Child care in the news
CA: More than half of Canadians can't keep up with cost of living: survey
CTV News, 28 February 2022
NL: Province to provide update on efforts to meet increased demand for child care
VOCM Local News, 23 February 2022
NS: Unclear how new childcare plan will impact planned Guysborough centre
The Star, 23 February 2022
PEI: Some P.E.I. groups say provincial budget looks promising, but await details
CBC News, 25 February 2022
QC: La maternelle 4 ans: qu’en pensez-vous ?
Le Charlevoisien, 24 February 2022
QC: Les enfants ayant des besoins particuliers doivent être prioritaires, selon QS
La Presse, 22 February 2022
ON: Local daycare facilities and parents waiting on affordable child care from province
Guelph Today, 26 February 2022
ON: Ontario still the lone holdout for Canada’s system of ELCC: Advocates continue their calls for a good agreement now
Child Care Now, 3 February 2022
MB: Manitoba Métis Federation excited about early learning programming
The Turtle Island New, 1 February 2022
BC: Webinar recording: 2022 Roadmap to $10aDay Child Care
Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC & Early Childhood Educators of BC, 28 February 2022
BC: Shaping our future through early childhood education
North Shore News, 28 February 2022
BC: B.C. child care budget template 'not quite what was promised,'
Vancouver Sun, 23 February 2022
BC: Victoria community association fundraising to open new child-care centres
CTV News Vancouver Island, 23 February 2022
US: Nearly half a million families are hurt by the child care labor shortage
Wall Street Journal, 2 March 2022
US: A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to preschool
National Public Radio, 10 February 2022
International Women's Day 2022 Events
QC: Journée des droits des femmes avec les porte-paroles en matière de condition féminine
Ma place au travail, 8 March 2022, 8:00pm EST
On this year’s International Women’s Day, Ma place au travail will bring together three speakers for a virtual roundtable to shed light on important issues regarding the realities of women in Quebec. The roundtable is hosted by Myriam Lapointe-Gagnon and features Manon Massé (Québec Solidaire), Isabelle Melançon (Parti Libéral Québécois) and Méganne Perry Mélançon (Parti Québécois).
ON: People and planet over profit: Revolutionary love for all
International Women's Day Toronto, 5 March 2022, 1:00pm EST
Women Working with Immigrant Women and the IWD Toronto Organizing Committee are hosting a Toronto virtual rally in celebration of the International Women’s Day 2022. This year’s parade will be featuring stories of women from all walks of life rising up to reclaim a world that puts people and planet before profit.
ON: International Women’s Day Panel
Bay Ward Bulletin, 8 March 2022, 7:00pm EST
City of Ottawa Councilor Theresa Kanavagh will be hosting a virtual meeting on the topic of breaking gender bias with Suzannne Obiorah, Director of Ottawa’s first Gender and Race Equity, Inclusion, Indigenous Relations and Social Development service and four panelists including Grandmother Barbara Dumont-Hill from the Kitigan Zibi Community in QC, Fae Johnstone—Executive Director of Wisdom2Action, Salwen Kayembe from Bay Ward City Councilor’s Office and Simone Godbout—Founder of Marlow, and SheBoot’s Crowd Favorite Winner.
BC: International Women’s Day: Confronting gender bias across industries
Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour, 8 March 2022, 4:30–6:30pm PST
The Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour will be hosting an online event to imagine a world where gender equity exists and take actionable steps toward that reality. Three guest speakers (TBA) will share their journeys to success, the gender bias they faced along the way, and additional intersecting issues they’ve encountered in their professional lives.
To find International Women's Day events near you, visit the International Women's Day website and search for events in your local community.
Other Events/ Campaigns
Campaign: A workforce at breaking point - Rising up for child care
Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario & Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, February 2022
As Ontarians await a federal-provincial funding agreement, the AECEO and OCBCC are launching a new campaign to highlight the experiences of the early childhood educators in regards to the early learning and child care workforce crisis. Participants can sign onto the Open Letter or share their personal stories.
Webinar: Child care in rural Nova Scotia communities
Child Care Now Nova Scotia, 10 March 2022, 6–7 PM AST
This webinar will discuss the role of rural child care in Nova Scotia's federal-provincial child care agreement. Speakers and panelists include: Dr. Christine McLean, Susan Elliott, Nikki Jamieson and Morna Ballantyne.
Conference: The U.S. care infrastructure: From promise to reality
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, American University Program on Gender Analysis in Economics & Carework Network, 4–5 March 2022
This US-based conference will bring together academics, researchers, advocates, and policymakers to explore critical issues and policy proposals for the care industry, including paid family and medical leave, child care, care for older adults and people with disabilities and racial/equity issues in the care economy.
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