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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 3d

📰 We’re in the news! 📰

Our Child Care Now NS Check-In Event is featured in the media — highlighting the voices of advocates, educators, and families calling for a stronger child care system in Nova Scotia. 💜

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Child Care Now Nova Scotia hosts check-in event

Advocacy group "Child Care Now Nova Scotia" hosted a event bringing together childhood educators, parents and community members.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 5d

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ACE National Statement on Auditor General’s Report on Child Care

OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yesterday’s report from Ontario’s Auditor General confirms what families and operators have long been saying: the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Chil...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing news from our ECE's in Cape Breton today!!!!!!!!

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Cape Breton childhood educators ratify new deal after three-week strike

A group of nearly two dozen early childhood educators at Munro Academy in Sydney Mines, N.S., has ratified its first collective agreement following a three-week strike.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Happening this TOMORROW! 🚨

Child Care Now NS Check-In Event
📅 Oct 2 | 6:30–8:30 PM
📍 Keshen Goodman Library & on Zoom

Be part of the conversation about the future of child care in Nova Scotia 💜

👉 Register for Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ChildCareNow #NovaScotia #ECE

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 9d

🧡 On #TruthAndReconciliation Day we honour Survivors, their families & the children who never came home.

Reconciliation is ongoing: listen, learn, act.
Every child matters. 🧡

#OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #ChildCareNowNS

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Happening this week! 🚨

Child Care Now NS Check-In Event
📅 Oct 2 | 6:30–8:30 PM
📍 Keshen Goodman Library & on Zoom

Be part of the conversation about the future of child care in Nova Scotia 💜

👉 Register for Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ChildCareNow #NovaScotia #ECE

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · 12d

Join us! The public investment in child care is one of the largest generational investments ever made. We need to get this right and that takes advocacy and pressure. #nspoli

Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 13d

Child Care Now NS is hosting our Annual Check-In Event on Oct 2! 💜 Hear from ECEs + advocates, share your voice, and stand together for child care in NS. Hybrid: Keshen Goodman Library + online. 🌟 All welcome! 📅 6:30–8:30 PM 💻 Online: Register here to join via Zoom 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 10d

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Daycare in Denmark is a basic right. Could Canada offer the same? | CBC News

With months ticking down to the goal of $10-per-day daycare across Canada, there are at least five provinces who have yet to meet that goal. And there is mounting evidence from other countries that Ca...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 13d

Child Care Now NS is hosting our Annual Check-In Event on Oct 2! 💜 Hear from ECEs + advocates, share your voice, and stand together for child care in NS. Hybrid: Keshen Goodman Library + online. 🌟 All welcome! 📅 6:30–8:30 PM 💻 Online: Register here to join via Zoom 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 14d

✨ Join Us for the Check-In Event! ✨

📅 Date & Time: October 2nd, 2025
📍 Location: Keshen Goodman Library
💻 Online: Register here to join via Zoom 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Let’s connect, share, and keep building the movement together. 💜

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Join us for the Child Care Now Nova Scotia Annual Check-In Event!
📅 Thursday, October 2, 2025
🕡 6:30–8:30 PM
📍 Keshen Goodman Library + Online (Hybrid)
This is a chance to hear from guest speakers, connect with others, and discuss the future of child care in Nova Scotia. ✨ All are welcome

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 22d

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Celebrating World Patient Safety Day: Safe care for every newborn and every child | Nova Scotia Health

Each year on Sept. 17, World Patient Safety Day provides an important opportunity to raise awareness, share knowledge, and highlight initiatives that protect the health and well-being of patients arou...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 24d

Mark your calendars! Child Care Now NS is hosting our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, October 2nd. Join us in person at the Keshen Goodman Library or online.
🎤 Guest speakers | 💬 Community discussion | 🌟 All are welcome!

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 26d

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Standing in Solidarity with Striking ECEs in Sydney Mines - Child Care Now Nova Scotia

Fair Hours, Fair Work: Why We Support the Munro Academy ECE Strike At Child Care Now Nova Scotia, we know that a strong child care system is only possible when the people at its heart—Early Childhood ...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 27d

💬 Show your support: comment, share, use #SupportECEs #ChildCareNovaScotia #Solidarity

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 27d

Our child care system depends on early educators. ECEs in Sydney Mines deserve the same 40-hour weeks as their peers. We support the strike. Employers: do the right thing. #FairWork #ECE #Unifor @unifor.org

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 27d

Child Care Now Nova Scotia is proud to stand with Unifor ECEs at Munro Academy as they strike for consistent full-time hours. Fair pay & stable scheduling aren’t perks — they’re basics. #SupportECEs #ChildCareNovaScotia #Solidarity @unifor.org

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 28d

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‘Course correction’ needed to ensure new childcare spaces meet federal accessibility targets, says economist

‘If you don’t change how the expansion is happening, it’ll continue to be for-profit spaces where it’s convenient for providers to locate them,’ says David Macdonald.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 29d

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Sunshine Coast parents feel ‘absolutely abandoned’ by sudden child care program closures - BC | Globalnews.ca

Donna Lynden said she learned the news in an email just five weeks before the program's end. Adding insult to injury, it was her first day back at work after maternity leave.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · 29d

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Early childhood educators strike at Cape Breton school for guaranteed work-week hours

Nearly two dozen early childhood educators employed by a Northside private Christian academy took to the picket lines early Monday morning.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Women daycare workers on strike for full-time hours at Munro Academy

SYDNEY MINES, N.S.—Unifor Local 4600 members at Munro Academy set up their picket line at 7:00 a.m. this morning outside the Sydney Mines, N.S. day care after last efforts over the weekend failed to c...

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Daycare workers at Munro Academy in Cape Breton strike for full-time hours

Unifor Local 4600 members at Munro Academy went on strike Monday morning outside the Sydney Mines, N.S., daycare.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · Sep 8

Parents, ECEs, and community members — we want to see you there!
Hear about the work we’re doing to strengthen child care in Nova Scotia
Let’s come together to celebrate, discuss, and push for the accessible, high-quality child care system we all deserve.
Mark your calendars — see you there!

Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · Sep 3

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The case for pro-union public policy - CCPA

Higher unionization rates don't just benefit workers, evidence suggests they also offer broad social benefits like a cleaner environment and better health.

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Child Care Now - Nova Scotia @childcarenow-ns.bsky.social · Sep 2

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A brief history of Canadian government strikebreaking - CCPA

“You didn’t make any provisions before?” BNN Bloomberg host Andrew Bell asked Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau, sounding somewhat dumbfounded. “To ensure the passengers, or at least some of them, would...

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