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	<title>Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 25th, 2010: Municipal and School Board Elections Vote for Children and Families! For materials and information, please click here. October 27th, 2010: Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day (10th Anniversary) For updated information, please click here! Follow us on Twitter! @ChildCareON Financial Impact Survey: Early Learning and Child Care Sector:   Financial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Municipal and School Board Election Materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a critical time for child care and early learning in Ontario, and we need to ensure that issues facing our sector are at the centre of candidate platforms and discussions. For a sign to post in your centre, office, or community, please click here. For a brochure to hand out to parents, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3937</link>
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		<title>Council for Early Child Development Announces Closure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Council for Early Child Development will be ceasing operations effective October 31st 2010. The council was an important research organization and leader in examining the positive impacts of early learning and the science of brain development, how children learn, and why investments in early learning are smart investments for our future. The fact that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3911</link>
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		<title>Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities responds to OCBCC letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June 2010, the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care wrote to invite the Ministry of Colleges, Training and Universities to meet to discuss solutions to protect the existing child care centres and lab schools on Ontario college campuses. In recent years there has been a dangerous trend of lab school and college child care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3906</link>
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		<title>Durham: Petition to Municipal Centres to Extend Hours of Child Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CAW Child Care Services, which closed this summer, offered extended hours to meet the needs of parents who work non-standard hours. The loss of this high-quality program is a significant one, in part because there are now no viable options for extended-hour child care in the region. The CAW argues that: &#8220;All Canadians deserve access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3883</link>
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		<title>Economist: Significant Economic Payoff of Early Learning Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A report on the cost-benefit impact of Dr. Pascal&#8217;s proposal for an Early Learning Program was released today by the Centre for Spatial Economics. The report states that full-day kindergarten would create 29.3 jobs for every $1-million invested in operations and 20.1 jobs for every $1-million invested in building and renovating classrooms. It also shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3875</link>
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		<title>Literature Review of Socioeconomic Effects and Net Benefits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council released a report entitled Literature Review of Socioeconomic Effects and Net Benefits: Understanding and Addressing Workforce Shortages in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Project. The report shows that investing in early childhood education and care not only benefits children and families, but it also creates the maximum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3855</link>
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		<title>Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday October 27, 2010 has officially been announced as Child Care Worker &#38; Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day and will mark the 10th Anniversary of the celebration. To order materials, please download our form here. To read the 2010 Resolution declaring October 27th, 2010 as Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day, please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3820</link>
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		<title>Amherstburg Early Learning and Child Care Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After over forty years supporting local children and families, Amherstbury Early Learning and Child Care Centre is one of the seven child care centres to be closed by the City of Windsor on August 31st, 2010. The centre will hold an open house Aug. 19 from 6-8 p.m. so that people can return to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3834</link>
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		<title>Stratford: Parent plans to open community child care put on hold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of parent organizers trying to set up a new child care option in Stratford has had to put plans on hold due to lack of funding and ministry red tape. Around 130 families are on waiting lists for child care in the area, and parents say a new option is necessary. The up-front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=3956</link>
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