Kathleen Kummen

[MarthaFriendly @_MFriendly]

The #cdnchildcare program Ken Dryden tried to put in place as Social Development minister was foundational - paving the way for today's $10 a day childcare. As I advocated to, and got to know Ken back in the day, I too found much to appreciate - and I didn't grow up a hockey fan!

[Kathleen Kummen @KKummen]

@Pontifex Why not invite all families to work towards a world of equity and peace for all

[Kathleen Kummen @KKummen]

@Pontifex With so many words you could have chosen to invite people to follow Christ’s teachings or return to the Church. Instead you chose to alienate

[ECEBC @ECEBC1]

British Columbia to receive $5.38 billion for child care from the federal government. ⁦@10aDayPlan⁩ https://t.co/AepXgvJ8vV

[Sharon Gregson @sharongregson]

Funding models for child care need to be based on the actual qualifications of educators and not the minimum regulations/ratios #10adaychildcare

[Métis Nation BC @MetisNationBC]

On November 16, we celebrate #LouisRielDay, honoring the visionary who shaped the Métis Nation. Riel’s courage and commitment to defending Métis rights inspire us still. Let’s carry his dream forward.

[Senate of Canada @SenateCA]

The flag on the Peace Tower will be flown at half-mast until sunset on November 10, 2024, the day of the national commemorative ceremony for the late Honourable Murray Sinclair, C.C., O.M., M.S.C. who passed away on November 4, 2024.

Former senator Sinclair represented Manitoba in the Senate from 2016 to 2021. Prior to his appointment to the Senate, he notably served as the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba and the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

#SenCA

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe. 

His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people. 

He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best. 

He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the system’s relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province. 

The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us – Every Child Matters. 

It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all “dare to live greatly together.” 

On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik. 

A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclair’s funeral later this week.

[CT @cdtwriter]

We're there.

[Sharon Gregson @sharongregson]

Or Canada...

[Karyn Sutherland @KarynSutherland]

🚨After 28 yrs Childrens Circle Daycare Society has a bold new name and a snappy new logo! Two rivers, a diverse community of nurturing hands and boundless, child-led ideas! #Kamloops #childcarebc #earlylearning #strategicplanning

[Childcare Resource and Research Unit @childcarepolicy]

#childcarecare 101 again. Quebec unionized childcare centres aren't government-run. Also - just about all high quality universal childcare systems in the world are unionized - like Canadian teachers, nurses, university professors, transit workers, construction trades, etc. etc.

[Monique Gray Smith @ltldrum]

My life, and the lives of my family have been forever changed as a result of the contributions of Honourable Murray Sinclair. Grateful for his immense sacrifices…one of the greatest humanitarians of our time! Prayers for him & his family🩷🙌🏽

[Childcare Resource and Research Unit @childcarepolicy]

Today's ON action by for-profit owners against the
$10/day #cdnchildcare plan-closing their centres to show opposition to public accountability for (substantial) public funding perfectly illustrates why a for-profit childcare sector is a liability/contrary to the public interest

[Grace Lore @GraceALore]

From Chief Tom, Grand Chief Philip, Chief Slett: “So, to say it again, if you support reconciliation, vote NDP.”

From UNDRIP, to economic reconciliation, to jurisdiction over children & families, to school curriculum - we cannot risk this.

#BCPoli

https://t.co/WvQYHK6s29

[Grace Lore @GraceALore]

Our kids deserve better than John Rustad’s terrifying education plan.

He’ll cut lesson plans that include the science of climate change.

The BC NDP can stop it — but we need your help. Let’s do this together, for my kids, for yours, for future of our province. #BCPoli

[Childcare Resource and Research Unit @childcarepolicy]

Is this what generations of feminists have spent 50 years fighting for in Canada? Not on your life. If #cdnchildcare goes down this big-box, private equity road, we will never achieve the equitable, high quality, inclusive, democratic system for all envisioned.

[Rob Hodkinson🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RobHodkinson]

Several years on in recognizing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and it still feels odd to be given a paid day off. As I have in previous years I will be donating my days pay to an indigenous organization in the lower mainland. #NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.

[BCACCS @BCACCS]

The signing of a First Nations Early Learning and Child Care Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding is a milestone opportunity for First Nations in B.C. We are honoured to have supported the First Nations Leadership Council to advance this work.
https://t.co/7xdlDNJjgb