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Climate action survives UK and France elections

Aug 21, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood |Chloe Kemeni |Gordon Cleveland

The following is a re-print of the July 2024 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA's monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and climate change. Click here to subscribe to Shift Storm and get the latest updates straight to your inbox as soon as they come out. Against the backdrop of the hottest June in recorded history, two of Europe’s biggest economies (and largest polluters) went to the polls and avoided major backslides on climate action.
Kamala Harris is a breakthrough for representation—but representation…

Aug 20, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Chloe Kemeni |Stuart Trew |Gordon Cleveland

Moving often means downsizing and making little decisions about what comes with you and what stays. As I was preparing to move from Montreal to Toronto, I decided to clean out my closet and donate what I could. My rule of thumb was that if I hadn’t worn it within the last six months, it was time to give it a new home. I landed on one sweater I’d had since 2008, and no matter how many times I thought about parting ways with it throughout the years, I cannot.
Tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles are coming. How high will they…

Aug 19, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Stuart Trew |Gordon Cleveland |Garry Neil

It’s almost certain the federal government will soon announce supplementary tariffs on imports of China-made electric vehicles (EVs). There is remarkable agreement among former conservative trade advisors, libertarian think-tanks, environmental groups and labour unions that this is a good idea.
Ontario Is Violating the Early Learning and Child Care Agreement

Aug 5, 2024 | childcarepolicy.net | Gordon Cleveland

Most child care in Ontario is provided by non-profit or public operators. This has been true for years. A full 70% of the licensed/regulated child care spaces for children 0-5 were non-profit or public back in 2022, when Ontario signed the Canada-Wide Agreement with Ottawa. So, two things are not in doubt. First, it is obviously possible for non-profit and public child care services in Ontario to grow and expand, given the right conditions.
Ontario is responsible for province's child care shortages, not the…

Jul 31, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Gordon Cleveland |Garry Neil |Jon Milton |Stuart Trew

The provincial government has ignored years of recommendations from experts, and created a major shortfall in child care spaces Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. The following article has been re-printed with the author's permission.
Who’s To Blame For Child Care Shortages In Ontario?

Jul 25, 2024 | childcarepolicy.net | Gordon Cleveland

Todd Smith is Ontario’s new Minister of Education and he has already decided who he wants to blame for Ontario’s child care shortages – it’s the federal government. So, Todd Smith wants federal minister Jenna Sudds to release Ontario from the agreement it signed back in 2022 that limits expansion by for-profit enterprises to a maximum of 30% of the total expansion. Ontario never wanted to limit for-profit expansion; apparently they only signed the agreement under duress.
New Support for the Economic Benefits of Universal Child Care

May 30, 2024 | childcarepolicy.net | Gordon Cleveland

I met Sebastien Montpetit at the Canadian Economics Association meetings in Winnipeg last year. He is a Canadian and Quebecer who has been studying for his PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse. And he, with co-authors, has come up with a really fascinating analysis of the impacts of Quebec’s universal child care program ushered in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The paper is complex, has multiple parts, and the latest version of it is available here.
Supply-Side or Demand-Side - A Contribution to the Australian Discussion

Mar 28, 2024 | childcarepolicy.net | Gordon Cleveland

John Cherry, from Goodstart Early Learning, has written an evaluation of child care in Quebec and New South Wales. Apparently his purpose is to determine whether supply-side funded systems (like Quebec’s) are better or worse than demand-side funded systems (like in Australia). To summarize briefly, John finds that Quebec does better on workforce participation and affordability, NSW does better on child care accessibility and quality. So, John concludes that Australia’s system is pretty good.
Women don’t ‘choose’ to work less - there is no choice

Mar 12, 2024 | afr.com | Gordon Cleveland |Georgie Dent

The context in which women in Australia “choose” how to combine work and care is still dictated by policies and practices that entrench “mum as caregiver” and “dad as breadwinner” as the prevailing norm. It informs our culture, which remains firmly wedded to stereotypical roles for men and women, in ways other countries have shifted. Changing this context so parents can truly “choose” what works for their families depends on reform.