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Excerpt: "The Manitoba government is investing $6 million to support a revitalized Park Community Centre and non-profit child-care facility in downtown Brandon, Municipal and Northern Relations Minister Glen Simard announced here today. “This investment in the Park Community Centre creates a new option for working families looking for affordable daycare services in downtown Brandon,” said Simard. “Once completed, the Park Community Centre will offer a safe and inclusive place to enjoy rec services, cultural and social events and a brand-new licensed daycare centre.” A key component of the redevelopment of the Park Community Centre will be a licensed, non-profit child-care facility, ensuring more families in Brandon have access to affordable, high-quality care close to home, noted the minister."

��������'s 3rd annual Equity Symposium will engage in the theme “Mobilizing Our Knowledge to Defend Justice Outside the Walls of University.”

Excerpt: "Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Wage Grid is designed to support licensed and funded child care facilities in offering accessible, quality child care by recognizing the valuable contributions of the early learning and child care workforce in helping children learn, grow, and develop to their fullest potential. The ELCC Wage Grid provides guidance to licensed and funded early learning and child care facilities in developing equitable and competitive salary scales across employee positions/classifications. As the legal entity and authority, the board of directors of a non-profit child care centre is responsible for establishing wages. In family and group child care homes that employ staff, the licence holder is responsible for establishing wages. This approach preserves the authority of boards and child care home licence holders, while ensuring consistent and better wages are provided to the early learning and child care workforce. The Target Hourly Wage is the expected amount to be paid to staff based on their position/classification. Funding provided through the Wage Grid Supplement must be used to help meet the new Target wages on the 2025/26 Wage Grid for all position/classification levels on a facility’s salary scale."

Don’t forget to vote for next year’s GSA candidates! Your voice matters—make sure to cast your vote online by April 4th 11:59pm!

Erminia Pedretti, Laurie Faith, Lance T. McCready, Andrzej Szieb, and Katherine E. Entigar are receiving excellence honours from the Institute for 2025.

Excerpt: "Further to the memo communication of November 26, 2024, regarding the Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines (“the Guidelines”), I am writing with additional updates to support municipal planning for 2025 and beyond, including: Results of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) space target
recalibration exercise; Information on the Early Learning and Child Care Infrastructure Fund; Updated 2025 Allocations; Updates to the Guidelines."

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On February 26, 2025, the �������� Centre for Leadership and Diversity hosted a virtual symposium.

Excerpt: " The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) implemented today an increase of $3.5 million in Dedicated Wage Funding and a permanent increase of $664,000 in Flexible Funding to support the Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Sector. The Dedicated Wage Funding is intended to increase wages to early childhood educators working in licensed centre-based early learning and child care facilities. This funding represents a significant increase to the wage grid and increases the minimum that all early childhood educators in centre-based facilities must be paid by approximately $9/hour."

Tavila Disha Haque (she/her) is a dedicated PhD student in Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP).