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Excerpt: "In considering affordability, it is important to consider overall operating costs which are higher in the North and the increased cost of living for early childhood educators who are typically paid low wages. Any increases to wages, to address recruitment and retention, will need to be considered in offsetting operating costs for licensed early learning and child care programs."

Excerpt: "The Atkinson Centre at ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½/²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ and Institute for Change Leaders hosted a Virtual Roundtable - Have your say about Canada’s new Early Learning and Child Care Legislation, on March 9, 2022. The event was in response to February 11 correspondence from the Federal Secretariat on Early Learning and Child Care seeking feedback on legislation to enshrine the principles of a Canada-wide child care system in law and support a lasting federal commitment over time. The following is a summary from the roundtable."

The theme of this year's International Women's Day - #BreakTheBias - encouraged people to imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination.

In the spring of 2020, Professor Nina Bascia set out to understand how teaching and learning in Ontario schools had changed since COVID-19.

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Olivia Chow, lawyer Stephen Shyrman and the Atkinson Centre held a virtual roundtable.

Excerpt: "Early childhood educators are skilled professionals who care for children at the most important time of their lives. We can’t deliver child care without them and will need about 10,000 ECEs to join the profession over the next 10 years. The PNP program will help us address the ECE staff shortage throughout B.C. by helping us recruit more ECEs. We are also raising wages, expanding education and training, and offering bursaries for people who want to enter this rewarding and in-demand career."

Valle’s professional and creative initiatives highlight the road Canada must take to make education equitable, Indigenous communities whole, and gender more just.

Excerpt: "A Pre-Kindergarten pilot program will launch by September of this year that will create additional regulated child care spaces. At full implementation, the province-wide Pre-Kindergarten program will create approximately 3,100 regulated spaces for four-year olds by 2025-26, which will open up existing child care spaces for younger children."

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ alum Melissa Sariffodeen is the CEO and co-founder of Canada Learning Code, helping inspire young girls to overcome the "dream gap."

Dr. Tabi was recently appointed assistant professor at McGill in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

Kitchener MPP Laura Mae Lindo's bill aimed at countering racism in schools received nearly unanimous support in Queen's Park this week.