A number of members of the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) have expressed concern about a recent letter from the Minister of Education Paul Calandra to parents which operators have been asked to distribute. The letter, sent on April 22 2025, says that the parent fee reductions financed through the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program could be reversed after March 31, 2026 (and continue to rise thereafter) and ascribes this to inadequate federal funding.

The Ontario early learning and child care community is celebrating a step forward as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces extensions to the $10aDay agreements with 11 provinces including Ontario , which has an agreement-in-principle. 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.