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Help shape the 2010 provincial budget |
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Manitobans are encouraged to provide input on Budget 2010 at pre-budget consultations that will be held this month. The dates for the 2010 Pre Budget Consultation meetings are as follows:
January 21st - Bronx Park Community Club - 720 Henderson Hwy (please note address change), Winnipeg 7-9pm
January 25th - Salon A, Keystone Centre, Brandon, Manitoba 9:30-11:30a.m.
January 25th - Portuguese Cultural Centre, 659 Young Street, Winnipeg 7-9pm
January 26th - Holy Eucharist Parish Hall, 500 Pacific Avenue, Selkirk, Manitoba 7-9pm
January 29th - The Golden Agers Club, The Kin Centre, 324 Ross Avenue, The Pas, Manitoba 1:30-3:30pm
January 29th - The Legion Room, Veterans Community Hall, 119 6th Avenue North, Swan River, Manitoba 7-9pm
In addition, Manitobans can share their views by emailing the minister at
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or by writing the minister at Budget Consultations, Room 103, Legislative Building, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0V8. |
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City of Morden calls for new provincial childcare strategy at AMM |
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Morden Council successfully proposed a new provincial childcare resolution at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) Convention, November 23-26, 2009 in Brandon.
Daycare Funding – WHEREAS the existing daycare funding and programming provided by the Province of Manitoba is no longer adequate, especially in communities where growth does not allow the use of inexpensive facilities such as closed schools for daycare use;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the AMM lobby the Province of Manitoba to meet with stakeholders to determine the needs for adequate daycare, and then initiate the programs necessary to ensure those needs are met.
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Read more: City of Morden calls for new provincial childcare strategy at AMM
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Tackling women's and children's poverty - Early learning and care services are part of the solution |
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In this submission to the federal government, we argue that child poverty rates are scandalously high in Canada. Child poverty is connected to family poverty, and to women’s persistent poverty. Other countries have been able to reduce children’s and women’s poverty through proactive social policies, including the provision of services to supplement market wages. Canada lags behind international best practices. Where early learning and care services are widely available and of high quality, they do a great deal to tackle women’s and children’s poverty. Canada needs to commit to developing a national early learning and childcare program, with federal funding to the development of ECEC services (supply side), and to stepping up to its international commitments to children’s rights and women’s equality.
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Read more: Tackling women's and children's poverty - Early learning and care services are part of the solution
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New Evidence about Childcare's Economic Effects |
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A new report by the Centre for Spatial Economics, commissioned by the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council quantifies the remarkable economic effects of childcare.
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Read more: New Evidence about Childcare's Economic Effects
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Manitoba Research Featured on CBC The Current |
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The day after Ontario announced its innovative new early learning plan, host Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC's morning show The Current hosted a panel with report author Charles Pascal, Dr. Gabor Mate and Susan Prentice. The Child Care Coalition of Manitoba's economic research on the impact of childcare was featured prominently. Listen to the archived show.
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