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The Ontario government is extending the deadline for childcare centres to opt into the federal government’s $10 a day program by two more months, according to a letter obtained by the Canadian Press.

Keeping Ontario’s child-care centres open during the worsening third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will require significant safety enhancements, including priority vaccine access for childhood educators, say workers and advocates in the sector.

Share As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the report by the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, we reflect on its significance and note that, when it comes to gender equity, the struggle continues. On December 7, 1970, a report was tabled in the House of Commons that the media called “a bomb, already primed and ticking.” The 488-page document was loaded with research and insights that would prove very dangerous indeed—a threat to a Canada in which men blindly benefit...