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Articles by Lisa Pasolli
No good reason for Ontario to delay signing child-care agreement
All Ontarians – not just parents of young children – should welcome Ottawa’s national child-care policy and urge the province to sign on. Ontario is the last holdout on the national initiative. While Premier Doug Ford dithers, a small minority is trying to weaken the pan-Canadian policy. They are trying to undermine the national approach, for reasons that include skepticism, financial self-interest and old-fashioned nostalgia for the 1950s family.
Creating universal child care from the ground up: The legacy of Toronto's grassroots child care advocacy
Lisa Pasolli is a historian of 20th century Canada with specialties in the history of social policy, women and gender, and the politics of child care. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. To read more about Lisa vist her website. Over the past year or so, we’ve been hearing a lot about the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
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