Child care policy researcher. Activist. Feminist. Grandmother. Working with many others to build a Canada-wide quality child care system.
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Love this - Woody Guthrie by Bette Midler - youtube.com/watch?v=uBj57ivP… And it goes for Canada, and everywhere else too 🇨🇦
This sounds like a Trumpian nouveau-Spanish-American War - just waiting for "you provide the pictures, i'll provide the war" (lots of complicit media available).
Big #cdnchildcare contingent at Toronto's #IWD2025 march included my MP, @cafreeland, one of the intrepid women political leaders who put our 50-year struggle for universal childcare on the road to reality. As the marchers chanted "10-a-day - It's here to stay!"
There's been copious documentation of the USA's childcare crisis but this is graphic evidence of it. Not the best quality of life for a young child - eh ? Canada has been working to make #cdnchildcare affordable for all, and to build a quality universal system.
Ontarians had better guard even their underwear as @fordnation rapaciously strips away publicly funded, publicly valued assets
Two crown jewels for kids gone...Ontario Place's vanished great Children's Village and the ON Sci Centre, still visiting grandkids' fave even this year.@fordnation's stingy and limited world-view is consistent its treatment of kids in public education, #cdnchildcare
To go on with the Boss Tweed/@fordnation comparison, can include this icononic Tweed Ring cartoon (1871): "who stole the people's money?"
Compare the integrity, ideas and public service contributions of the people speaking at @ONPlace4All "A better idea" event tonight to (for example) this identified beneficiary of the Greenbelt scam
Next up at the @ONPlace4All “A Better Idea” event is David Crombie who decries the failure of the Province to submit the Therme spa project to an Environmental Assessment and notes a resemblance to the issues identified by the Auditor General in the Greenbelt scandal.
Among other things, this AU report reinforces what the data show here in Canada: for-profits charge higher parent fees. Maximizing the profits..eh? #cdnchildcare
Childcare fees grow faster than inflation in Australia and they look to $10aDay in Canada watoday.com.au/politics/fede… #10adaychildcare