Martha Friendly

Martha Friendly is Director of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit.

A national child care system because “it’s 2015”

Opinion

November 7, 2015

Martha Friendly

In 2015, it’s dreadfully evident that our patchwork, marketized child care situation fails just about everyone and that young Canadian families live in one of the few wealthy countries that fails to support them well.
Building a national child care program

Opinion

August 27, 2015

Martha Friendly

Canada lags way behind most of its peer countries on child care. There is no doubt that in the absence of a modern approach to child care provisions, families across Canada experience hardship and stress.