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Posted on The Conversation.

Excerpt: "A trend is emerging in education in Canada: We are recognizing that early childhood education is beneficial for children, for families, for everyone.

Provinces and territories are focusing more attention on programs for preschoolers and the federal government is prepared to invest billions of dollars in child care in the coming decade."

Excerpt: "The agreement allocates slightly more than $7 million to Yukon over three years for early learning and child care investments. Yukon’s Action Plan outlines how these funds will be invested. This funding will provide additional child care subsidy supports for grandparents who take care of their grandchildren, increase resources to assist Early Childhood Educators, help retain trained early childhood staff, and increase support to improve inclusive child care programming for children who are most in need."

Emis Akbari discusses the design of the 2017 Early Childhood Education Report.

With the release of the Early Childhood Education Report 2017, the Honourable Margaret McCain discusses the impacts of Early Childhood Education.

Marcel Lauzière, CEO, The Lawson Foundation.

Kerry McCuaig discusses trends in the 2017 Early Childhood Education Report.

Honourable Margaret McCain expressed her gratitude for the Early Childhood Education Report.

Excerpt: "In addition to the multi-year bilateral funding, your government is also investing $28 million to support wage increases for early childhood educators. This funding will be rolled out over four years beginning in 2019–2020 and raise wages from $16 an hour to $19 an hour for trained early childhood educators by 2022–2023."

Cathy Crowe, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ alum, well-known Toronto street nurse, and activist, was among 47 invested into the Order of Canada.

Philippe Losego

Excerpt: "The provincial government announced today that families with children aged five and under attending a designated New Brunswick Early Learning Centre will not pay more than 20 per cent of their income for child care."

Excerpt: "Pour assurer le maintien en bon état ainsi que la réhabilitation des établissements scolaires de la région des Laurentides, un investissement de plus de 53 millions de dollars a été annoncé aujourd’hui."