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		<title>What&#8217;s New?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community Outreach: Help us share our parent &#38; community surveys. Click here. For our pre-budget submission please click here. For a copy of our budget press release, click here.  Click here for our publications, including the Child Care Management Guide, and A Guide to Child Care in Ontario]]></description>
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		<title>Revised: Kit for Child Care Supervisors on new funding formula and advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kit for Child Care Supervisors Meeting May 2013 We have combined several fact sheets into a kit for child care supervisors. Included: Fact Sheet: Child Care Funding Formula Changes Fact Sheet: Working with your CMSM or DSSAB Fact Sheet: Advocacy Makes a Difference]]></description>
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		<title>OCBCC Contract Position: Membership and Administration Coordinator</title>
		<link>http://www.childcareontario.org/?p=6452</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Arnup has taken a leave of absence from the OCBCC. We are hiring a replacement on contract and the deadline for application is May 31. The job is located in Toronto. Summary of Position Membership and Administration Coordinator, reporting to the Board of Directors, is primarily responsible for all office and financial administration, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Province of Ontario to spend $73k to research retention problems in child care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London Free Press reports that the City of London, partnering with the Province of Ontario, will sponsor a study on why there is a shortage of RECE&#8217;s  despite increasing demand. What a great opportunity to summarize some of the excellent information already out there. The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council was a federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child care on the agenda in BC provincial election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign for $10 / day child care has put child care on the map as one of the issues in the BC election campaign. Going into the campaign, child care advocates had over 6000 endorsements for the child care plan &#8211; which has put enormous pressure on the political parties. Neither of the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Rethink Child Care campaign produces an amazing video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s national unions have joined together to advocate for more child care. Millions of Canada workers are members of unions.  Child care is a real workplace issue. How many parents need acommodation from their employers when they return to work after maternity leave because they lack reliable child care? Lots. In November, the Canadian Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon! New OCBCC Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we started our current website, with WordPress blogging software,  it was cutting edge. Years later our site looks confusing, cluttered and it can be hard to find what you are looking for….so the OCBCC will soon launch a new website! Our new website will be new cutting-edge technology, called Nation Builder. We are working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCBCC appeals to 18 MPP&#8217;s to stand up for child care in local communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ontario, early learning and child care programs have faced chronic underfunding and new financial pressures from the implementation of Ontario’s full-day kindergarten programs. The Coalition recognizes the efforts of the Ministry of Education to provide more predictable funding for municipal service managers and child care programs though a new funding formula announced in December. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Care Missing from Ontario Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO, May 2, 2013 /CNW/ &#8211; Child care advocates are frustrated and angry at the lack of child care funding in the 2013 provincial budget. &#8220;There has never been a more important time to invest in child care. Investments in child care pay for themselves and can help boost Ontario&#8217;s economy. It is time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Star Editoral Call to &#8220;fix full-day kindergarten mess&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Star called on the provincial govenrment to intervene and fix problems with full-day learning including the extended day programs for 4 and 5 year olds. Citing research demonstrating the importance of early years education, the Star calls on the Ministry of Education &#8211; repsonsible for child care as well as Ontario&#8217;s schools &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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