CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children's future educational and career opportunities are influenced by their experiences as young children at home and in the care of others.
Children and youth
On Feb 11, Ken Dryden, the federal Minister of Social Development, will meet in Vancouver with his provincial and territorial counterparts to finalize the agreement for a new national child care program.
Minister Dryden is optimistic and said recently in Regina that “Canadians are one step closer to having a national early learning and child care system.”
HALIFAX: A report released today by the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives assesses progress on several measures of child
poverty and finds that Nova Scotia performed fared most poorly among
the four Atlantic Provinces.
The new federal government has promised to introduce legislation that would lead to the development of an early child care and education (ECCE) system in Canada. This is welcome news.
Here we are in the summer of 2004, fortunate to be living in one of the world’s most resource-endowed countries, and yet many of our students have been unable to find paid employment to fund their college or university education. Hundreds of thousands of older Canadians are in the same predicament.
It’s not as if there were no worthwhile and even urgently-needed work to be done, such as replanting our large deforested areas.