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Allegations of abuse under Canada’s “migrant” home support and childcare program not new

by the Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC) How can we really end the cycle of exploitation of “migrant care workers Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker’s Program (TFWP) has long existed as a vehicle to recruit and cheapen transnational workers’ labour. The particular category of caregiver/domestic work schemes currently under the TFPW, from the early West… Read More Allegations of abuse under Canada’s “migrant” home support and childcare program not new

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Proposed changes to Childcare Care Act continue to counter Canadians’ calls for universal childcare

On December 6, 2018, the Conservative government of Ontario proposed new legislation called “Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018”. This legislation would be part of the Ontario Open for Business Action Plan which the Ontario Conservative government claims would give businesses more flexibility to create jobs in Ontario. One of the 30 actions under this Act… Read More Proposed changes to Childcare Care Act continue to counter Canadians’ calls for universal childcare

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National childcare for all now!

National statement October 9, 2013 Toronto, ON—With the issue of childcare having long reached a critical point, the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) urgently reiterates their call for a national childcare program that will genuinely meets the needs of working-class women and their families and the scrapping of the racist and anti-woman… Read More National childcare for all now!

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No genuine national childcare until the Live-in Caregiver Program is scrapped, Magkaisa Centre organizations assert

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: No genuine national childcare until the Live-in Caregiver Program is scrapped, Magkaisa Centre organizations assert Toronto, ON – February 10, 2010 – Despite a recent proposal by the Liberal Party to create a national childcare program, progressive Filipino Canadian organizations under the Magkaisa Centre express that the the ongoing exploitation and violence… Read More No genuine national childcare until the Live-in Caregiver Program is scrapped, Magkaisa Centre organizations assert

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