childcare and family

The Promise of National Child Care…

 November 20th is Children's Day, coming in 2021 almost exactly seven months after a budget announcement last April that...

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Protests, Parades and Potlucks: The Lesbian Mothers Defence Fund

 This interview explores the important role the LMDF played in the 1980s, supporting lesbian mothers who faced systemic discrimination...

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Birch Proposals: The Early Fight for Child Care Quality

 In June1974, Margaret Birch, Provincial Secretary for Social Development, delivered a proposal to change Ontario’s day care licensing requirements....

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History Repeats: Undermining Child Care in Ontario

 In June 1974, Margaret Birch—Ontario’s then-Provincial Secretary for Social Development—delivered a proposal to the legislature to slash the costs...

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Pat Schulz: Childcare Advocate

 "Maybe one's definition of reasonableness depends on where you fit in the system. Reasonableness is a device used by...

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Undated button calling for good daycare.

COVID-19 and Canada’s (Non-Existent) Childcare Strategy

 The unprecedented shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the federal and provincial governments’ woefully inadequate childcare strategies...

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Illustration by Barbara Hartman Branching Out, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1978

Lesbian Mothers and Custody Fights

 Before same-sex marriage, before gay and lesbian couples could adopt children, and before benefits were extended to same-sex partners,...

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Action Daycare and other childcare activists join the 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto. Signs call for universal quality daycare and paid maternity leave.

Promises, promises – A history of federal childcare proposals

 Feminists have been fighting for 50 years for the creation of a national universal child care program. Some version...

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A photo of Campus Community Co-op - the first iteration of the child care centre on Sussex Ave.

Fifty Years of the Campus Community Co-Operative Day Care Centre

 by Kathryn Petersen and Meg Luxton September 2019 marks fifty years since the establishment of the Campus Community Co-Operative...

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