Ontario's finance watchdog critiques Ford Conservatives' CARE Tax Credit

Ontario's Financial Accountability Office (FAO) has issued a scathing report of the Ford Conservatives' tax credit scheme.

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Media Advisory Child care supporters and City Councillors speak out against Ford government’s child care cuts

Parents and educators will be joined by Toronto City Councillors Mike Layton and Joe Cressy on Tuesday July 16th, at 12:30pm to speak about the impact of the Ford government’s cuts to child care and two motions going to Toronto City Council to help protect child care programs for Toronto families.

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Thousands of planned child care spaces may never be built because of Ford government funding cut

Ontario is at risk of losing thousands of planned child care spaces, including 3,049 spaces in Toronto because of the Ford government’s cuts to child care. A list obtained by the OCBCC from the City of Toronto shows that 51 planned projects previously approved by the province for development in schools, may never be built because the Ford government has reneged on a government promise to provide full operating funding to support the projects.

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Revised provincial allocation figures show increase in child care funding

Following months of advocacy, child care funding cuts have been put on hold. We must double down on our campaigning to secure gains for next year.

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Child care cuts on hold!

Bowing to pressure from the community, the Ford government has reversed planned cuts for child care for this year. The cuts are on hold and we need to keep advocating to protect child care services for next year and beyond.

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Day of Action against Ford’s Child Care Cuts at child care centres across Ontario - Wednesday May 22!

Parents and educators are teaming up at child care centres across Ontario for a Day of Action to leaflet and collect petitions against the Ford government’s child care cuts, including in Premier Doug Ford’s riding of Etobicoke North.

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Impacts of child care cuts by City of Toronto riding

New analysis of City of Toronto figures shows that Premier Doug Ford's riding will be one of the worst impacted by child care funding cuts. 

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Moms and educators speak out against child care funding cuts at Queen’s Park

May 7, 2019 – More than 50 moms and Early Childhood Educators are at Queen’s Park today to speak out against the Ford government’s cuts to child care funding.

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Letter to Lisa Thompson from a Huron-Bruce mom

The OCBCC is at Queen's Park Tuesday with over 50 parents and educators to speak out against the Ford government's child care cuts. Vanessa Kelly drove from Goderich to bring her MPP, Education Minister Lisa Thompson, this letter.

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