childcare

“We’ve had to pull money from our retirement savings to pay for childcare”

Shannon Proudfoot: Politicians have repeatedly referred to childcare as a mother’s problem, undercutting the essential fact that we all have skin in this game

In the Liberals’ optimistic budget, recovery is coming. It will take extensions of key pandemic programs, plus childcare, job training, student grants and business supports.

Childcare for an average of $10 a day within five years? The budget’s big offering is ambitious and essential, say experts. It will also be an enormous job to pull off.

Paul Wells: The budget focuses on the sort of things a government like Canada’s should be working on right now. But the big bet is on childcare—and the devil is in the details.

Ed Broadbent and Brittany Andrew-Amofah: To ’build back better’ Canada will need childcare, pharmacare, a green recovery—and new measures to sustain them

Class sleepovers, transit trips without an adult, early lessons with fire. Sara Zaske’s ’Achtung Baby’ explores the German approach to parenting.

Daycare in Ontario can cost parents as much as $20,000 a year. So which campaign promises for childcare make the most sense?

Jen Gerson: When you are seen to run a financially undisciplined nanny state, a pre-election spending spree is a bad idea

Critics say it leaves parents with children younger than two-and-a-half with little relief