ADCO Operations
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ADCO Operations
@OpsAdco
The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) is comprised of independent licensed child care owner/operators--both commercial and not-for-profit.
Ontario انضم Kasım 2014
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National child-care program needs overhaul to succeed: think tank canadianaffairs.news/2026/03/30/nat… via @CDNAffairs
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Do the majority of Canadian families with children benefit from the federal child care program? No, says Cardus Family program director Peter Jon Mitchell. In fact, the program is far off target in terms of the number of children it was intended to serve.
This is a key finding from Mitchell's latest report, summarizing the first three years of the program's implementation. Learn more about what the data shows, and the lessons for policy-makers, child care providers, and families by reading the full report: "Ten-Dollar Delay: How Canada's Child Care Program Locked Provinces In and Left Most Families Out" ➡️ cardus.ca/research/famil…
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Lots to consider in this new report, which tracks and assesses the roll-out of the federal child care scheme. Ten-Dollar Delay cardus.ca/research/ten-d…
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The recent C.D. Howe report confirms much of what ADCO has been saying about the federal dhild care program since the beginning. cdhowe.org/publication/10…
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Child care teams are seeing evidence of screen addiction in children as young as 24 months. Of course there are long-term societal implications to this. canadianaffairs.news/2026/03/20/edi… via @CDNAffairs
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Lots of food for thought in this latest report: cdhowe.org/publication/fr…
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The challenges for parents and child care entrepreneurs highlighted by MP Matt Strauss aren't unique to his riding. They exist across Ontario.
@strauss_matt
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The Province of Ontario is proposing a number of new health and safety regulations related to child care. Some would be implemented as soon as July 1. The consultation period ends on May 1. regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/53533
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Senator Marshall's recent assessment of Canada's financial state is worth noting. "Over a seven-year period, Canada’s actual debt has doubled. The increase in Canada’s debt is astonishing. By continuing to borrow, it raises the issue of generational fairness."
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A child care funding scheme that's so complex that it becomes impossible to pay staff on time is inherently unsustainable. saltwire.com/nova-scotia/ea…
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Great example of how the feds' child care scheme has increased the paperwork burden on centres. Here they're being asked to review 70+ pages just to comment on a new plan for rationing the funds. vocm.com/2026/03/11/ogp…
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Thanks, Gabe and Toronto Today for bringing this issue to light. Anyone who works with young children knows there's a point at which increasing the class size poses unreasonable risks to both children and educators. The threshold is lower when children need extra support.
Gabe Oatley@GabeOatley
New: In July, in one of his first moves, the TDSB's supervisor approved a class size increase for specialized kindergarten classes for disabled students. We spoke with four instructors of those classes who said it's created "absolute chaos." #onted #inpoli torontotoday.ca/local/educatio…
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@ReannGasper @HeatherMaahs Well, MLA Gasper, clearly you're not wrong. BC isn't the only province facing a structural deficit in the funding formula. The federal child care scheme will continue to fail until its flawed ideologically-driven design is fixed.
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In QP the Minister said I was “simply incorrect about everything” and denied there was a three-year pause in the $10-a-day ChildCareBC program. Yet Global BC (Feb. 18) & the Vancouver Sun (Feb. 20) both reported B.C. is placing a three-year freeze on expanding the program.
Cardus@cardusca
Cardus Family program director Peter Jon Mitchell writes about the failures of $10-a-day daycare in British Columbia, in the @financialpost today: "British Columbia’s $10-a-day ChildCareBC program is in trouble. The provincial budget delivered Feb. 17 introduced a three-year pause on the program’s expansion. Although advocates argue the freeze will allow for adjustments, the program is simply unsustainable. The provincial government should admit that and change course... "Child care is labour-intensive and therefore expensive. And because technology offers few efficiencies, the cost of care will only rise. 'Ten dollars a day' was a slogan that became a policy. Although it is a nice round number, $10 does not reflect the increasing cost of care. British Columbia is stuck with a slogan that makes delivery more expensive with every passing year." Read more ➡️ financialpost.com/opinion/opinio…
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Great insight from earlier this week: "If Ottawa let the provinces manage their own affairs and simply transferred the money, that would save enormous amounts of money that are currently being wasted on unnecessary bureaucracy. One good example is the child care program."
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Not surprising. The feds had zero experience in directing child care service delivery, yet had the hubris to try and superimpose their vision on provinces that had been successfully managing the delivery of both child care services and fee subsidies for decades.
Cardus@cardusca
Cardus Family program director Peter Jon Mitchell writes about the failures of $10-a-day daycare in British Columbia, in the @financialpost today: "British Columbia’s $10-a-day ChildCareBC program is in trouble. The provincial budget delivered Feb. 17 introduced a three-year pause on the program’s expansion. Although advocates argue the freeze will allow for adjustments, the program is simply unsustainable. The provincial government should admit that and change course... "Child care is labour-intensive and therefore expensive. And because technology offers few efficiencies, the cost of care will only rise. 'Ten dollars a day' was a slogan that became a policy. Although it is a nice round number, $10 does not reflect the increasing cost of care. British Columbia is stuck with a slogan that makes delivery more expensive with every passing year." Read more ➡️ financialpost.com/opinion/opinio…
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The ideologically-driven design of the federal child care scheme makes it unsustainable. The services actually available to families have never been as initially promoted and never will be... in Saskatchewan or anywhere else.
thestar.com/news/canada/sa… via @torontostar
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Staff shortages = long child care waitlists, yet the feds still haven't exempted Cdn-trained ECEs working in child care centres from LMIA rules. Clearly, the political calculus is that voters who oppose immigration matter more than voters whose children are waiting for care.
Blacklock's Reporter@mindingottawa
Canadians have no sympathy for employers that rely on temporary foreign workers says in-house @CitImmCanada research: 'They depress wages & use foreigners to drive down costs.' blacklocks.ca/no-sympathy-fo… #cdnpoli
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If accountability mechanisms were part of the design of federal programs aimed at "affordability," million-dollar surveys to find out who they are serving wouldn't be necessary.
Laila Goodridge@LailaGoodridge
The Liberals excel at big spending and weak accountability. A billion dollar program and a claim of 400,000 kids fed. Then a $1 million study to figure out how many kids their school food program feeds. When I asked Minister Hajdu why that money wasn’t spent feeding children instead, she dodged the question.
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The funding model this author proposes for Ontario universities would also work very well for Ontario child care centres. The added bonus for parents, child care licensees and taxpayers is that there would be less money wasted on government bureaucracy.
National Post@nationalpost
Randall Denley: It's time to free Ontario universities from government funding 'Ontario should turn the existing university support grants into tuition subsidy grants that are attached to students, not institutions' nationalpost.com/opinion/randal…
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