The Ontario early learning and child care community is celebrating as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces extensions to the $10aDay agreements with 11 provinces including Ontario. Our community raised our voices about how important the $10aDay program is for families and communities and how important it is that the sector has stability and security in funding. We know the transformative potential the $10aDay system holds for early childhood educators and staff, and we know it is a program that will benefit our economy and society.

136 Ontario organizations have signed an Open Letter to Premier Doug Ford asking him to accept a federal offer to extend federal $10aDay child care funding to 2031 - including 100 ELCC programs, 10 ELCC policy, research and advocacy associations, 21 nonprofit and charitable sector associations, and five Ontario labour unions. 

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province.

The Ontario government has released new documents providing details of the cost-based funding approach to be implemented in CWELCC programs in January 2025.