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Article content A program for free and universal pre-school care and learning is absolutely the most important national initiative since Medicare. The oped entitled Federal Daycare Plan will not live up to hype (April 30) written by Janice MacKinnon and Jack Mintz is misguided. They say the program can’t meet diverse needs of the Canadian workforce. Of course not. Childcare is not intended to serve the workforce and the economy; it is intended to serve children. The program is about giving them an opportunity to become all that they were meant to be as humans. From article: “The success o...

Article content The federal government’s 2021 budget introduces a daycare program, fashioned after Quebec’s, as a $10-a-day, 50/50 shared-cost conditional grant program with the provinces. By adopting a conditional grant program that requires a one-size-fits-all approach without recognizing provincial differences in fiscal capacity, the program will take too long to implement and fail to meet the needs of Canada’s diverse workforce. Daycare regulation is a provincial responsibility and the needed policies to achieve the goal of making daycare more affordable and accessible vary across C...

Article content The federal government’s 2021 budget introduces a daycare program, fashioned after Quebec’s, as a $10-a-day, 50/50 shared-cost conditional grant program with the provinces. By adopting a conditional grant program that requires a one-size-fits-all approach without recognizing provincial differences in fiscal capacity, the program will take too long to implement and fail to meet the needs of Canada’s diverse workforce. Daycare regulation is a provincial responsibility and the needed policies to achieve the goal of making daycare more affordable and accessible vary across C...

Article content The federal government is betting that its massive new spending measures will stoke enough economic growth to outpace ballooning public debts, setting the stage for a race that will drag on for years following the COVID-19 pandemic. Ottawa’s big bet comes as some experts warn that the Liberal government’s 2021 budget may have placed too little emphasis on spurring business investment — particularly that of large corporations — that could in turn limit Canada’s productive capacity in coming years. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your br...

Article content As Alberta returns to a third lockdown, it’s hard to imagine a time when we will be back to normal. The premier says weeks; Dr. Deena Hinshaw says months. People keep telling me they keep watching for the headlines that say, “It’s over.” If you haven’t had a chance to talk to people about what life looks like post-COVID, you should check out the Advantage Alberta seminars hosted by Postmedia. I had the opportunity to moderate one last week with Jack Mintz, the chair of the Alberta Economic Recovery Council; Dave Filipchuk, president and CEO of PCL Construction; and C...