The CRRU is a remarkable resource for anyone concerned with healthy child
development in Canada and elsewhere!
dr

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NEW POSTINGS AVAILABLE ON THE
CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT'S WEBSITE
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16-Mar-04
All postings available on CRRU's homepage
http://www.childcarecanada.org/

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What's new in online documents
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- ALTERNATIVE FEDERAL BUDGET 2004
**Just released today!**
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives gives Paul Martin a blueprint for
rebuilding Canada's social foundation; calls for a policy framework and
fiscal
commitments for a universally accessible, high quality system of ECEC.
http://www.childcarecanada.org/policy/polstudies/can/AFB04_2.html

- STRENGTHENING CANADA'S SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS: NEXT STEPS FOR
EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CHILD CARE
by Martha Friendly
Article in Policy Options charts the way to creating a universal child care
program.
http://www.childcarecanada.org/policy/polstudies/can/MFpolicyop.html

Note: The monthly Dossier in Policy Options offers other views on ECEC.
Other
articles include:

- Family policy and preschool child care
by Gordon Cleveland
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar04/cleveland.pdf

- Quebec's innovative early childhood education and care policy and its
weaknesses
by Pierre Lefebvre
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar04/lefebvre.pdf

- Conciliation travail-famille: quand les pays dits <<libéraux>> d'en
mêlent
by Caroline Beauvais and Pascale Dufour
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar04/beauvais.pdf

- CANADIAN PARENTING WORKSHOPS
by Judith Bernhard, Marlinda Freire and Vicki Mulligan
New book offers research-based workshops that prepares children for success
in
school while encouraging parental involvement in their education.
http://www.childcarecanada.org/research/complete/parenting.html

- 2004 NEW BRUNSWICK REPORT CARD ON WOMEN.
Report from New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women provides
a
statistical profile of women's issues in New Brunswick; notes that the
"absence
of child care has an impact on the gender pay gap."
http://www.childcarecanada.org/policy/polstudies/can/NBrcwomen.html


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UPCOMING EVENTS
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- SPEAKING OF QUALITY FORUM
Forum hosted by the Association of Early Childhood Educators Halton Branch
Oakville, Ontario, April 17, 2004
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/events.shtml?sh_itm=9bee3f04a5c4214a70aa1419b7ed1e9b


- CHILD CARE COOKS' CONFERENCE
Hosted by the Faculty of Community Services and Health Sciences, with
cooperation from the School of Hospitality and Tourism (George Brown
College)
Toronto, April 22-23, 2004
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/events.shtml?sh_itm=6be7069bb8e1891b46af7222b0f5c0ba


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