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WHATS NEW
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 >> Quality in early learning and child care services: Papers from
the European Commission Childcare Network
New publication from the CRRU re-prints three papers from the
European Commission that provide valuable and insightful
discussion on the topic of quality in early learning and child care
services.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69748

 >> Establishing a national system of early learning and child care
in light of Canada’s obligations under NAFTA and the WTO
Legal opinion commissioned by the Canadian Union of Public
Employees warns that Canada’s new child care system should
be made public and not-for-profit or it will run the eventual risk
of trade challenges.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69925

 >> Open Letter to the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada
Open letter from the Canadian Council on Social Development calls
on the federal government to “get it right” when it comes to child care
and “not base the new system on the failings of the old”.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69924

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CHILD CARE IN THE NEWS
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 >> Daycare, Norwegian-style [CA]
Globe and Mail, 18 Nov 04
Reid Robinson recently returned from visiting his grandchildren
in Norway. He shares his thoughts on Norway’s universal system of ECEC.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69922

 >> Another mails legos to Ottawa [CA]
Canadian Press, 15 Nov 04
Advocates of a national child care program are calling on Canadians
to send Lego to Ottawa in support of the plan.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69917

 >> National law on child care sought [CA]
Toronto Star, 15 Nov 04
Activists and parents shouldn't settle for crumbs when Ottawa and the
provinces meet in January to hammer out the country's first national
child care agreement, Canada's former U.N. ambassador Stephen
Lewis told a national conference on the issue in Winnipeg.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69919

 >> Keep child care public, economist tells Dryden [CA]
Toronto Star, 14 Nov 04
Child care must be a public service and not a market choice,
says Gordon Cleveland, an economist with the University of
Toronto's management studies program.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69914

 >> Act fast on child care, forum urged [CA]
Toronto Star, 13 Nov 04
Pauline Marois, the architect of Quebec's popular $5-a-day
child care says the rest of Canada must "seize the moment"
and move quickly to open as many new spaces as possible now
that Ottawa has pledged $5 billion to turn the country's
patchwork of programs into a national system.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69911

 >> For the children, national system makes sense: Doer [CA]
Winnipeg Sun, 13 Nov 04
It's time for provinces to "stop the blame game" and start
working with the federal government to establish a national
system of early childhood development, Manitoba Premier
Gary Doer told the CCSD Child Care for a Change!
conference in Winnipeg.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69920

 >> Dryden urges co-operation on day care effort [CA]
Canadian Press, 12 Nov 04
Ken Dryden told delegates at a national child care conference
in Winnipeg that a national system of early learning and child
care will be a reality, but there is still a lot of work to be done
with his provincial counterparts and those who work with
young children.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=69912

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NEW WEBSITE LINK
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 >> Aboriginal Children's Circle of Early Learning
http://www.accel-capea.ca
The Aboriginal Children’s Circle of Early Learning (ACCEL)
is a bilingual, web portal clearinghouse on Aboriginal early
childhood development (ECD). Visitors can consult the site
to review, research and discuss best and promising practices;
to exchange with a highly engaged network of Aboriginal
ECD practitioners and researchers; and to keep in touch with
the emerging needs of communities across Canada.

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