B.C. Liberal cuts target special-needs children

Lake daycare facing funding crisis

All-day K expands to more than 500

SD42 to get 462 full-day K spots

Poorest cannot afford healthy food

Child care an issue for all

North Vancouver calculates the cost of all-day kindergarten

Demand for childcare continues to grow

UVic board nixes for-profit daycare model : Other options to deal with long wait lists will be explored

NDP's James puts focus on youth

Child poverty affects future leaders

Daycare a step closer in Port Moody

B.C. earns yet another dubious distinction

By any measure, kids are stuck in poverty

Housing key issue in child poverty

United Nations human-rights panel wants action on women

Poor children show government priorities

Schools aren’t just about teaching anymore

Full-day K on the way to West Shore

James slams Libs over minimum wage

Our obligation to our children

Back To The Basics

Gov't cries budget crisis -- except for Olympics -- Funding increased but not viewed as Olympics expense

B.C. lags on child poverty, report says: Advocacy group touts action plans adopted by six other provinces

BC child poverty rates worst in the land

Plan needed for education

Welfare of our kids still needs work

Full-day kindergarten on its way

Put aside $3 Billion for the Kids: That's how much more BC needs to spend on vulnerable pre-schoolers, say researchers. They call it a bargain.

Public Forum to Address Child Care Crisis

All-day Kindergarten good idea providing funding is in place and it is equitable for all

Early school great investment

Mountview StrongStart grand opening Friday

A fair wage for a fair day's work; Pay equity is a much-misunderstood concept that is being taken seriously only in Quebec

Food banks serving record numbers

It’s all or nothing, say some West Vancouver School District trustees

Food Banks face heavier demand

The keys to successful all-day kindergarten

For-profit child care is the wrong model

All-day K not likely in French

Province ignores education deficiencies

Health care, education top British Columbians budget priorities

Class Notes: Doom and gloom

B.C. hopes to improve kids' capacity to learn

More on Full Day Kindergarten: Who and Where?

School District 43 says it's ready for all-day kindergarten in 2010

Where did all the Legal Aid money go?
Tens of millions earmarked for legal aid services disappears into general revenue

Half of Delta kindergarten students to go full day

What happens to kids who don’t get all day kindergarten? school board concerned

Corporate childcare is not the solution to University of Victoria crisis

Full-time kindergarten valuable

Looks like eight schools meet full-day K criteria; No capital costs at this stage

Legal aid services hit by second round of cuts this year

School district still looking for maintenance funds to cover accounting shortfall

More Time for Marbles: Kindergarten gets a full school day in B.C.

Infant-development advisers and the way forward

Daycare Serving BC's Poorest Forced to Dump Kids: Funding cuts ignore research on early childhood investment, say advocates.

Eight years of Eight bucks

Shake, rattle and roll

One in four kids not ready to start school

Kindergarten planning starts

Caring for kids?

Use us or lose us, say Sparwood childcare centres

School board forwards preference for all-day kindergartens to Ministry of Education

More school space, please

Mat Leave for the Self-Employed: Without it, there's no level breeding field

Ministry unclear in push for all-day kindergarten: NV school district

Children's ministry funding cuts may prove short-sighted and harmful

Olympic flame spending burns schools chairman

Access makes the difference

Oak Bay students could wait for all-day kindergarten until 2011

Revelstoke's children are less vulnerable than others in B.C., study shows

Mothers of special needs kids to protest program cuts across B.C.

All-Day Kindergarten Surfaces Once Again

B.C. school trustees call for delay of all-day kindergarten

Support MOMS provincial day of action on October 28

Human-rights activist Shelagh Day calls Stephen Harper our most sexist prime minister

All-day kindergarten bypasses Saanich

Liberals update ‘Pink Book’ on women’s issues.

The BCSTA's wishlist for government

Workers on Vancouver's docks will put equality on the agenda

All-day kindergarten pondered

In BC, Suffer the Children: Premier Campbell's forgotten promise to BC's youngsters with special needs.

City urges support for daycare

The continuing importance of women’s history

Province axes Autism program

All-day kindergarten costs $1.5 million

SD 74 meeting the challenges

What do you cut when there's nothing to spare?

Infant program cut is devastating

Give Us a Break

Richmond parents protest cuts to PAC grants

Board deliberations on child care expansion continue

Power not money

CAW Highlights Rising Tide of Precarious Jobs during World Day for Decent Work

Children left out from activities: Vital Signs

Pressure on parents as B.C. school funding drops, cuts get deeper

Province scores poor grades on equality report card

Teachers, trustees and parents join forces against government: Groups unite to oppose Liberal funding cuts that critics say will undermine B.C.'s public school system long-term

Women’s rights group gives B.C. government poor grades on equality

Phased-in all-day-K coming despite economy

Advisors to special-needs families getting cut

Fight back; these cuts do lasting harm

Cutting remarks cost Heed credibility

Child care missing job link

School cutbacks blamed for 'disgusting' situation - Elementary kids tracking feces, vomit

School District dismay at cuts

Concerned parties on cutbacks

City budget shortfall rocks park board: 'Soul searching' services review in the works

Redistribute our wealth

Irate MOMS to Premier: 'Rethink skewed priorities, restore axed autism programs!'

Gas prices lower costs

Sooke family affected by autism funding cut

UVic childcare bursting at the seams

Undermining children no way to balance budgets

'Affordability gap' keeps poor from taking part in the community: Report

Waitlist for childcare two years AMS, UBC recognize new childcare spaces are still not enough

Comox council makes its list of property tax exemptions

Chong doesn't get FAS program value

'Hard decisions' come after hard questions

If you build it, they will come

Defer all-day K: trustees

The need for affordable care for young children

Class Notes: Slow burn

School District 57 Lays Out Financial Reality and Options

New schools project update

Play-in for child care Thursday

Unprepared school kids cost B.C. $400 billion; Invest in children to build workforce

Child poverty pulls down ratings for quality of life

Grim report on early childhood education and care

Bottle drive makes dent in fundraising goal

Canada gets low marks for poverty: Conference Board

Raising the bar

Gaming grant cuts are devastating nonprofits: Is this the province's intention?

The economic impact of early vulnerability in B.C.

The brain drain on the economy may be child's play

Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2008

B.C. schools face cuts to libraries, lunch programs

All-day-kindergarten should be embraced

Vancouver School Board claims cash crisis

Vancouver school board wants 'unacceptable' funding cuts reversed
VSB lost $10.6 million after its annual facilities grant was cut, leaving only $160,000 in its coffers from last year’s reserve

Council, school board protest funding cuts…restore money for culture, schools and condo repairs

A wretchedly bad series of education cuts

Children, families left behind by budget

Approval for all-day kindergarten but money worries still abound

A kindergarten conundrum

School space a concern for all-day kindergarten plan

Labour Day and talk of a higher minimum wage

Taking the pulse of B.C. schools: A Q&A with Margaret MacDiarmid

Land of the double standard

Schools may face 'dramatic cuts'

Food bank model becoming standard in education funding

Government forecasts $2.8 billion deficit

No money for schools
The Education Minister has told school districts to use what they've got saved up.

School Trustees Look At Suing Province

Finding rooms will be one challenge for all-day kindergarten, says MacDiarmid

Schools begin process for all-day kindergarten

Cuts put pressure on city

Full-day kindergarten could put squeeze on daycares

$151M cost for kinders is just the start: Economy: Budget fallout continues over all-day kindergarten, community grants

Patti Bacchus says budget puts pressure on Vancouver school board

Doubts raised over all-day kindergarten: Money could have been used elsewhere, some say

Is the province equipped for all-day kindergarten?

District 64 wants say in all-day plan for kindies

Deficits will be good for services, say MLA's

Having children changes work patterns

Students left stranded: School buses: Cost-saving measure leaves family worried

School district eyes full-day kindergarten
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The night shift: Transit workers keep system running while city sleeps

BC Budget 2009: Child and youth rep disappointed

B.C. budget fails to protect health care, education: critics

B.C. non-profits, schools brace for cuts

Kids' social class Plays Big Role In School Success, Experts Say

SD43 school repair and maintenance grant cut

Province has stopped making sense

All-day kindergarten gets numerous positive reviews: Up to 1,000 new teachers will need to be hired for program

Child care a societal need not a luxury

All day kindergarten could squeeze school district’s already tight budget

BCTF skeptical about all day kindergarten

BC Minister of Children and Family Services Answers Questions On New Child Care Cuts

All-day kindergarten will bring extra costs

Kindergarten will go all day: Province plans to implement the new schedule by fall 2010

B.C. resurrects plan for all-day kindergarten

Neighbourhoods of learning to be expanded

Liberal minister negligent on childcare

Liberal minister negligent on childcare

Liberal minister negligent on childcare

Having children changes work patterns for couples, study finds: Statistics show that couples with kids are less likely to work long hours

All-day kindergarten coming for 5-year-olds

Cuts don’t deter minister’s optimism

Why all-day kindergarten is a good investment

Bottles For Child Care

Funding cuts cripple inner city daycare: Centre caters to special needs kids

Why poverty is still with us

Song remains the same

Childcare wait-list decried: UBC student leader says cuts are adding to crisis on campus

Federal budget must address child care and economic slowdown

Childcare hit hard: Provincial funding cuts are now impacting childcare services

Daycare dilemma

B.C. Government picks priorities; MLA Bennett says subsidized daycare funding will remain intact, though 'minor capital grants' to daycares may be up for cuts

Children in care: Is there a way out?
B.C. has a long way to go when it comes to working effectively to reduce child poverty

UBC’s Student Union Funds UBC Childcare
While the BC Government Makes Cuts

Special needs kids may lose taxpayer-funded daycare --
Downtown Eastside child-care centre says it can't afford the rent

Why is B.C. so stubborn when it comes to poverty reduction?

Babies make comeback -- except in Canada

Children best investment for future

Children best investment for future

Hot air about child care

Work-life balance is the key

Just one in 10 in B.C. finds daycare affordable: Survey also found people in B.C. more dissatisfied with education, health care systems than other Canadians

Children too low on government priority list

UBC Child Care adds five new daycare centres
Daycares facilitate meeting of minds

A B.C. infant taken because his parents were poor

Economic downturn takes toll on parents

BCGEU supports recommendations from B.C.'s Child Advocate

Members sought for new Child Care Council

Fontaine: New AFN chief must fight poverty

Bridge Lake School epitome of community, says association

Education minister warned of budget shortfall

Social service agency budgets could get axed

Offer incentives

The child care capacity challenge: The search is on for solutions to meet the need for more child care spaces

All-day kindergarten a good education investment

Most poor people in B.C. have jobs

District hopeful of kindergarten plan; Officials look to the government to start the all-day sessions

Women’s organizations and live-in caregiver advocacy groups to call on provincial government to address urgent childcare crisis

'Controversial' day care approved

Money for kids' camps expected to flow

It's going to be a small meeting

Painful cuts plague B.C. school districts

District faces more cuts in the future; SD 68 forecasts deficit for 2010-11

Numbers don't add up

Kindergarten slowly expands

Businesses sought for help in child care crisis

MacDiarmid and the kindergarten proposal

All-day kindergarten just too expensive for B.C.: Liberals have too many budgetary headaches already

B.C. won't follow Ontario on plans for all-day kindergartens: Plans for all-day program hit stumbling blocks: lack of funding, teachers and classroom space

Longer spring break cuts costs

No all-day kindergarten yet

Strengthening the Child Welfare System
An Open Letter to the New Minister of Children & Family Development

Revolving door continues to spin as B.C. children's ministry gets new leader:
Former Surrey school board chair Mary Polak is 11th person at the helm in 13 years

Too high for her; Child representative dismayed at B.C. child poverty

Fresh faces for new challenges, Campbell says; Premier picks a cabinet he vows will guide the province through tough economic times

Campbell's new cabinet

Too many B.C. kids really unprepared for starting school; To have 85% kindergarten-ready by 2015 reality? Just 70.4%, and number's been falling

Message to the new BC cabinet: British Columbians want a poverty reduction plan

Campbell hints B.C. deficit could grow

Child poverty is British Columbia's shame

Nudged toward the alter

Skater hits road for child care

The early childhood plan - and its cost

Our children’s needs are greater

Strong public support for expanded kindergarten

More families having to turn to welfare: NDP says BC Liberals need to protect parents and kids

Longer spring break is a big problem

Balmoral moves closer to closure; Students would move to Carson

Reduce size of cabinet

Schools require adequate funding

Six fewer school days for Surrey kids

B.C. Liberals need a minister for kids

After-school care program in works

Failing Grade

Man skating province for child care; Day-care worker stops in Trail to spread message

Slocan worried about cuts to W.E. Graham; PUBLIC EDUCATION: Village council warns proposed cuts to programs could lead to closure, loss of services

Kids in care forgotten, once again

Take time to consider child care this month
Keep pressure on government to ensure quality child care is available to parents throughout British Columbia

Longer break hurts students

Full-day Kindergarten good idea

Green power energizes youth: Trees help children grow.

Straight writers praised for childcare coverage

Tree Frog Daycare gratitude

Two-week spring break approved for Greater Victoria schools in 2010

New schools to become neighbourhood hubs

In-line Skater Coming Through the Kootenays

Vision Vancouver pushes to make more information easily accessible on the Internet

More to the story on child care

Live-in caregiver program: End it, don't mend it

Parents rally to save daycare; School district says it needs the space for other programs

Simons secures second term

Thanks to nurses...

Steady as she goes, voters say

More daycare on the horizon: Spring Creek daycare reopening 2011; Teddy Bear likely to stay open

School trustee Sharon Gregson says female cabinet ministers unhelpful

Where women lose out

W. Van addresses childcare: Some new restrictions, but rules allow a broader mix of options

Conroy sails easily into second term

Early Learning and Child Care Act reintroduced
NDP again asks Parliament to pass legislation that would lay a foundation for a national child care system.

Bike to Work Week: 6,000 expected to pedal to work

A Mother's Day message for Premier Gordon Campbell

Politicians and media must pay more attention to childcare

Why time is such a welcome gift: Mothers struggle with the economic and emotional demands of raising a family

Child care a big issue

Skating for childcare

Labour council announces its endorsement

Dhalla nanny affair should prompt assessment Live-in Caregiver Program

Inline skater rolls to boost child care

Board 'had no choice' on teacher cuts; Saanich trustees made decision 'under duress,' chairwoman says

Chamber candidate questions

Too many children left behind in B.C.

Things would be better with more women MLAs

BC government should heed its own report on childcare

Parties mum on time lines for child-care plans

Full-day kindergarten coming to Whistler

UBC prof gives four reasons B.C. isn’t delivering childcare

Political parties ignore recent government-written plan for childcare

Eight years is enough

Families with kids...

Open day-care spots remain hard to find

Broadcast from Carol James, BC NDP leader

Child care workers implore locals to ‘vote for change’: Sea to Sky Community Services unionized workers posted an anti-Liberal message at their office to highlight what they say are inadequate child care worker wages and funding

Child care needs support

MLAs pass on forum; Two candidates were notably absent from an election forum organized by teachers

Reach hosts Time to Change

Child poverty got worse in B.C. under the Liberals

Poverty analysis calls for more responsive actions

Don't forget cutbacks

Meet the candidates

Desperate parents camp out for preschool in Richmond

Questions to the candidates from childcare

Mounting concern

City will add new daycare regulations: Business licences to be approved by council

Most of those getting it are not teenagers, and are making well below the poverty line

Baldreydash: I dare the media to cover child poverty during B.C. election

Campbell's Claim that Jobs Lifted Many out of Poverty Proves a Myth -- Welfare-to-work hasn't worked any better: report

Cuts are coming -- you can bank on it

B.C. Liberals haven’t delivered on early child development

School trustees demand more funding

Saturday morning update from the BCSTA

Inline skate across B.C. to raise awareness of child care

Men, women almost earning same income: StatsCan

Don't close Hume Park School

Interview with B.C. Green party leader Jane Sterk

Broken promises, worse to come

Editorial: Liberals offer cautious course

B.C. student group claims Liberal platform exaggerates funding

Daycare parents worry

Childcare remains crisis

MLA Macdonald seeks re-election, campaign office open

Community centre budget still on track; Managing contingency fund

Family to the rescue; Fernie Childcare Society members will discuss the future of a planned not-for-profit daycare in the town at their AGM on Monday. Rebecca Edwards finds out how one Fernie family is juggling childcare and work

Commentary: Change is coming to Vancouver-Point Grey

“We have to come up with affordable daycare”

Campbell wants a positive focus; Premier says no place for personal attacks during provincial campaign

Liberals forget about children

Public services better deal than tax cuts, says study

Women's advocates call for end to provincial discrimination

Changes need to be made, Klein says

NDP would reduce school closures

NDP platform promises an immediate end to B.C.'s carbon tax

Economic stimulus projects designed for men

Council directs staff to save daycare: Whistler Blackcomb in discussions for long-term lease with RMOW

B.C. school trustees seeking more money to deal with issues

B.C. Liberals hope voters forgive and forget

Pilot project gives students opportunity to learn: Government building will be shared with nearby school district

B.C. child-care wage campaign could pit workers against parents

We should invest in society

Childcare continues to be a need in the North

CHILDCARING

Parents drive crucial daycare advocacy

B.C.'s Shame: The highest child poverty rate in Canada

B.C.'s Shame: Half of single parents low income

National daycare a great stimulus option

Boys and Girls Club surveying Comox Valley about child care

'We can do it again'; About 350 attend [Federal] Liberal leader's town hall meeting

Addressing the silent majority

Schools and money woes

UBC study suggests B.C. Liberal's stimulus plan is sexist

Forsyth to keep fighting for childcare spaces: Demand for spaces will continue to grow, but numbers decreasing

Doughnut shop owner can't find local workers

Why is the Universal Child Care Benefit taxable?

The Children’s Center Society

Child care solution in sight for Gilpin parents

Olympic budget … to all-day Kingergarten

An Education in Learning

Extra early morning care for children

Liberal minister has Vancouver school board trustee steaming

Spring Break Update: All Day K and Declining Dollars

School food lineups growing across B.C.

Quebec’s long day care shadow: Childcare lessons for British Columbia are many, say advocates

Forsyth furious over Teddy Bear closure: Whistler ‘at a crisis point’ for infant and toddler day care

Governments ignoring crisis: Dolan

Economic crisis to hit women harder than men, ILO report says

Preschool lesson No. 1: Search early; Parents should also check signs that kids will be in good hands

Taking babies from mothers in prison punishes the children

Education ministry drops all-day kindergarten plan

Election gag rules will affect most vulnerable citizens

BUTTON BLITZ: Tree Frog Daycare was out in force last weekend selling buttons at Country Grocer in Ganges to raise funds so the daycare can stay open.
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Council backs union's call for 'living wage'

Past 30 years not kind to families; Study shows 60 per cent of households with children under 18 have lower earnings than their '70s counterparts

Majority of BC families can't get ahead: study reveals 30-year decline in incomes for all but the richest

Standing up for women; Financial support in federal budget for women called 'attack on equality'

A Closer Look: Child care continues to be a challenge for city families

Making it easier to open a daycare is part of plan

The poor will not always be with us; Despite the biblical injunction that the poor will always be with us, there is nothing inevitable about poverty.

Whistler’s child-care ‘crisis’ deepens: Teddy Bear Daycare to close at end of May

Full-day fine, but not in schools

All-day kindergarten good for children

City sets childcare hearing: New approval process for larger daycares

Mount Pleasant daycare site in bureaucratic limbo

Remember the working class roots of International Women's Day

Giving girls a future

Beware of child care property development/leaseback schemes, proposals to expand for-profit child care and pressure to reduce quality standards.

An International Women's Day theme so nice they had to use it twice

Groups mark International Women's Day

Province called on to help its poorest

Children ignored in Canadian scheme of things

Disappointment over delayed kindergarten plan

Failing children, failing the public

Families scramble to find child care: Move to close Spring Creek facility ‘stressful’ for many in Whistler, mom says

Abandoned

Labour crisis threatens daycare with closure: A national labour shortage may force the south-end daycare to close.

Spring Creek daycare to close its doors: Centre not sustainable after loss of infant programs in November

Invest in people, not bridges

Imagine a child-care system that works for B.C. families

B.C. children need full-day kindergarten now

All-day kindergarten program postponed

Vulnerable B.C. kids need more attention, report finds

Long time away for full-day Kindergarten

No pay-for-K

All-day K nipped in the bud; Trustees strongly object to idea of parents paying for access to education system

Children in B.C. at risk because of cuts

Gag law protested

Cost of full-day kindergarten probably killed the project

The real budget numbers

Gag law is undemocratic

Education and the 2009 Budget

Critics lash out at deficit budget

Scientists leaving Canada as climate funding dries up

All-day kindergarten the latest casualty of economic crisis

Who pays the bill?

B.C. needs a plan to fight a nasty recession

Vancouver schools will have no Olympic break: 2010 Games won't change school schedule

B.C. throne speech puts all-day kindergarten (aka childcare) on hold

Pilot project may grow; Successful full-day program in kindergarten may expand

Full-day kindergarten worthwhile investment

Council joins call for end to poverty

Parents line up for school registration

School adds aid for kids

Childcare report: How much is daycare in Canada costing you?

Daycare: the debate over space

Full-day kindergarten initiative delayed: Education minister says 'massive undertaking' will likely be phased in

Care programs at risk

Full-day kindergarten won't start this year

Full-day kindergarten sounds good

UBC child care an important issue

At 100, Chamber pauses to honour top businesses

Money should go to citizens

Early childhood education is important

Property taxes are climbing; Residential taxes could jump 8.2 per cent, while business taxes could climb 4.2 per cent, city report says

Transit, housing at top of wish lists

Children’s Centre turns one: Programs full, more staff needed as first anniversary nears

Prolific writer off topic on childcare spaces

Harper budget should have done more to boost economy, help working families

Child-care advocate says Harper government deserves to fall

No parental leave for self-employed mommies and daddies in budget

Budget gives working families the finger, cottage owners a new deck

14 moms, 12 babysitters: You've got three minutes

Community needs to start working together

Spend more, social think-tank urges

Moms and dads need flexible childcare options

Families not in good position to cope with recession: study - Vanier Institute says families living 'closer to the edge' than in last recession

The Women’s Contact Society remains strong despite hard times

Study shows links between poverty, children's height

Families feeling workplace stress; Most employers are not giving parents needed flexibility

Go green now with stimulus funding

New child-care centre opens doors

Women's center AGM Monday

School board eyes empty classrooms for childcare

Forestry an economic bellwether

Report: Healthy work/family balance harder to achieve

Parents ask for space

Early-age kindergarten debate on hold for now

Attitude adjustment goes a long way

Awaiting the kindergarten report

Bankers' bad advice

Kindergarten debate on hold

Sun Tech City gets reprieve

Children caught in crossfire

Lift Kids Out of Poverty, Protect Their Brains

$33b stimulus package needed, says think-tank: Monetary infusion would create 400,000 jobs, according to alternative federal budget

Yaletown parents camp for four days to compete for kindergarten spaces

Macdonald says he represents local issues in Victoria

Child-care programs in Vancouver schools