EXCERPTS
A new federally sponsored boy or girl-care program is unfolding throughout Canada. This initiative didn’t tumble from the sky – it’s the final result of many years of agitation by boy or girl-care activists in Toronto and the relaxation of the region. We are bringing with each other a panel to go over the strategies for decent, publicly supported boy or girl care and to assess how this new program steps up.
Panelists
Lisa Pasolli is Assistant Professor of heritage at Queen’s University and the creator of quite a few publications on the heritage of boy or girl care in Canada.
Martha Friendly is Executive Director (and founder) of the Childcare Resource and Research Device and has published about and advocated for good boy or girl care for some fifty years.
Julie Mathien worked for lots of years as Director of the Early Mastering and Little one Enhancement Branch of the Ministry of Small children and Youth Providers and not too long ago wrote a heritage of the Campus Neighborhood Co-operative Day Care Centre (she also participated in the occupations needed to get funding for that centre fifty years in the past).
Jessica Tomas works at the U of T Early Mastering Centre and is Variety Officer and Vice-President of Advocacy on the government board of CUPE Regional 2484 and a board member of the Ontario Coalition for Far better Little one Care.