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Third New Child Care Development Underscores Potential of Edleun's Burgeoning ...

Canada NewsWire (press release) -
CALGARY, June 1, 2012 /CNW/ - Edleun Group, Inc. (TSX-V:EDU) ("Edleun" or the "Company"), the leading provider of quality early childhood education and care in Canada, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Brookfield Residential, ...

Canada's Population: Children and our Future

SOS Children's Villages Canada (press release) -
With an ageing population of baby boomers, worries about pension funds and fretting over health care costs, Canada's demographic situation has not been a stranger to news headlines. But, where do children figure into this population picture?

Edleun's $5 million financing helps fund growth strategy in Canadian child ...

Canada NewsWire (press release) -
The proceeds of this offering will be utilized to acquire and improve existing child care centres and to develop additional centres to meet unsatisfied demand in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia while providing Canadian parents and children with ...

Construction begins on 32 new early learning and child-care spaces at École ...

mySteinbach.ca (blog) -
Construction is underway on a new early learning and child-care facility connected to École Sainte-Agathe that will create 32 additional child-care spaces for the francophone communities of Ste. Agathe and Aubigny. This announcement was made by Premier ...

Aboriginal children's centre welcomed

Canada First Perspective -
... federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada Minister John Duncan and a host of other dignitaries.

Canadian childcare in crisis

Omega -
I didn't realize that the situation was far more complicated than just the out-of-pocket expense incurred by parents, and I decided that National Childcare Month is the perfect time to examine what the current state of childcare is in Canada, ...

Controversial Aussie businessman wins appeal to visit Canada US

Vancouver Sun -
Back in 2005, when today's Grade 1 pupils were newborns, Canada's childcare industry was braced for a hostile takeover by an ambitious Australian businessman named Eddy Groves and his hugely successful ABC Learning empire.

Canada's working moms still earning less, doing more than dads

CBC.ca -
So it is easy to forget that women in Canada still earn on average 25 per cent less than men do and do the bulk of housework and child care, according to the most recent figures from Statistics Canada. "The gender division of labour has been there a ...

Census 2011: Canada has a baby bump with more kids, more would-be moms

Toronto Star -
Quebec in particular has a landmark $7-a-day daycare program. And the federal government gives families $100 for every Canadian child under six as part of its Universal Child Care Benefit. “I just take the money I get from Stephen Harper every month ...

At your service

Victoria Times Colonist -
Contact: 250-383-9822 or MEC-Victoria@telus.net or visit meditationvictoria.org Free adult ESL classes with free childcare at SPEAKWELL ESL English Conversation Program.

Controversial Aussie businessman wins appeal to visit Canada US

Canada.com -
Back in 2005, when today's Grade 1 pupils were newborns, Canada's childcare industry was braced for a hostile takeover by an ambitious Australian businessman named Eddy Groves and his hugely successful ABC Learning empire.

Questions and answers with Conrad Black

National Post -
The former media magnate tells us his thoughts on Mulcair, the Alberta oil industry, the evolution of Toronto and the 5000 email messages he's received from Canadians Q You are returning to Canada after an absence of five years.

Need for a National Strategy on Childcare

mySteinbach.ca (blog) -
Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for young ...

Silicon Valley East could help aging NS

TheChronicleHerald.ca -
Nova Scotia has among the highest incidences of cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and other chronic diseases in Canada. Our daily cigarette and alcohol consumption are also among the highest. This costs our health-care system, already our largest ...

Look who's getting a degree from NipU!

Bay Today -
The Right Honourable Paul Martin is Canada's 21st Prime Minister. His many achievements include a $41 billion healthcare improvement initiative; a landmark agreement for a national early learning and childcare program; and building a consensus to ...

Watoto Children's Choir perform in Gladmar

Sask News Now -
Watoto is a holistic care program that was initiated as a response to the overwhelming number of orphaned children and vulnerable women in Uganda, whose lives have been ravaged by war and disease.

Canada lags on fighting child poverty, report finds

Toronto Star -
“The good news from this is that when we invest in things like early childhood education, when we invest in early health care, when we invest in helping the most vulnerable children . . . it makes a difference,” said UNICEF Canada President David ...

Government investment in Canadian children and families "worrisome", expert says

Straight.com -
Canada is a generous society in terms of health care, and if you're a child with an acute condition, you're going to get as good care as anywhere in the world,” Lewis tells the Straight on the line from his Saskatchewan office.

Canada's baby bump: highest rates of youth in Alberta, Quebec, Saskatchewan

Global Montreal -
Implemented by Ottawa, universal child care benefits hand parents $100 per month for every child under six. In Quebec, $7 a day for daycare, a landmark policy in Canada, removes the costly burden of child care expenses from parents' shoulders.

We are family

Canada.com (blog) -
But thanks to Premier Christy Clark, British Columbians will now spend every second Monday in February observing Family Day, either by taking the day off work, scrambling to find child care, heading for Washington to do some cross-border shopping or ...
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