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Excerpt: "Today, the Government of Canada and Saskatchewan announced an investment of $71.3 million to allocate more than 5,000 child care centre spaces across the province throughout 2024-25. To date, 1,537 of these child care centre spaces have been allocated to new child care facilities or added into existing facilities in 27 Saskatchewan communities and 36 organizations. The other 3,463 spaces will be allocated throughout the remainder of the fiscal year. "This investment will create more opportunities for families to find accessible and high-quality child care in their local communities," Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill said. "Expanding child care facilities throughout the province will be an addition to supporting the wellbeing for Saskatchewan families.""

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Nouvelle direction du CREFO à compter du 1e juillet 2024 en remplacement de la professeure Le Pichon, en sabbatique pour un an.

Submission to the Government of Canada's Guide on Building a Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System, August 2024

The Atkinson Centre urges the Government of Canada to ‘get it right from the start’ by enforcing the principles governing the building of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Child system. Profit has no place in child care. Quality does.

The OISE Graduate Students’ Association is excited to extend an invitation to all OISE students to participate in one or more of our standing committees.

Check out our new Student Resources Page for essential support services available to graduate students!

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Excerpt: "Licensed school-age child care centres will be able to access new funding to help them deliver before and after school programming for Island children. To ensure Island families can continue to access affordable child care programming, the Province is investing $537,900 to support operational costs and encourage more organizations to offer school-age child care programs. The new funding will include a one-time stabilization grant for existing operators and a new licensing incentive grant for new operators."

Visions of Science has an exciting internship opportunity for OISE students available this Fall!

Excerpt: "Through the Province’s StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan, $12.5 million over three years is supporting provincewide recruitment and training initiatives for teachers. This year, almost $4 million is going toward recruitment and training programs, with a focus on supporting teacher retention in the sector, improving flexibility in teacher education programs, and recruiting more teachers in rural and remote communities."

Excerpt: "Phase 1 of the school lunch program includes every school that has elementary school grades, which adds up to more than 75,000 students and potentially more than 13 million lunches served in the coming school year. It is a pay-what-you-can program, meaning families can choose to pay the full $6.50 cost of the lunch, part of the cost or nothing. All payment information is kept confidential. Lunches will start in schools on October 1, 15 or 28, with ordering opening two weeks before the first lunches are served. Families will be able to choose between two lunch options every school day, with at least one vegetarian (no meat) lunch offered each day. In total, there will be 40 menu options that rotate weekly when the program starts in October. Each meal provides balanced nutrition and meets the standards outlined in Canada’s Food Guide and the Nova Scotia School Food and Nutrition Policy."