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	<description>Ideas, News and Views for Child Care Workers in British Columbia</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Shorty List&#8221; Website is Sign of What&#8217;s Wrong with BC Child Care</title>
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Image source: Vancouver Courier
The Vancouver Courier reports on the launch of a website &#8211; The Shorty List &#8211; that will provide families with access to anonymous reviews of child care centres, schools and preschools in Vancouver.  The idea is hard to criticize on one level, given that families have both a right and a need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting study reported on by the New York Times:
Mr. Chetty and his colleagues — one of whom, Emmanuel Saez, recently won the prize for the top research economist under the age of 40 — estimate that a  standout kindergarten teacher  is worth about $320,000 a year. That’s  the present value of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of First Nations Youth</title>
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The Tyee launched a new series today that shares the stories of &#8220;Native Youth, in their Own Voices.&#8221;  The series is an effort to go beyond stories told by others, such as number crunches who talk in statistics.  Here&#8217;s from the introduction to the series:
The aim of this series, however, is to move beyond the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://liberationlearning.com/625</link>
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		<title>Child Labour in BC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the new website No Child Labour in BC, part of a new campaign by BC First Call:
If you aren’t familiar with what is happening in British Columbia you  might be shaking your head right now wondering why we’re raising  awareness about child labour in Canada!
Well, in 2003 the BC government lowered  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Domestic Workers Secure Worker Rights</title>
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In June, domestic workers in New York state made history by securing legal protections, including rights to overtime pay, vacation time off and other employee rights.  Domestic workers had organized for years to get the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passed, a major milestone for the over 200,000 nannies and other domestic workers in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://liberationlearning.com/620</link>
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		<title>Long Term Education Plan Called For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Vancouver Observer:
In response to the Special Advisor&#8217;s Report, a group of more than 200 parents representing 80% of the schools across Vancouver, Vancouver Parents for Public Education (VPPE), are requesting the Auditor General conduct an independent inquiry into whether or not the current provincial funding formula covers the actual costs of the Vancouver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling Festival Continues Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the Storytelling Festival, which started on Friday and continues through today.  Today (Sunday June 13) there will stories from 2-4 (and today is free).  More info:

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		<link>http://liberationlearning.com/599</link>
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		<title>Change Camp Surprises</title>
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Update: Added photo from Jean Djinni.
I spent today at Vancouver Change Camp, and had a great time.  The event is billed as a &#8220;participatory event to imagine and build new ways to collaborate for social change in the digital age.&#8221; I expected something far less interesting and learned a lot from many people, reflecting diverse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://liberationlearning.com/591</link>
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		<title>Income Inequality Widens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Policy Note reports on the widening income gap in B.C. (worst in terms of inequality after Alberta) and the rest of Canada (getting worse over time) (you can also read more at Progressive-Economics.ca):
In a recent update of the Canadian data by Mike Veall of McMaster University, for the first time we have provincial data to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://liberationlearning.com/577</link>
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		<title>Why We Should Advance a Living Wage, Not a $20/hr Wage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ECEBC&#8217;s $20 per hour strategy for British Columbia&#8217;s early childhood educators makes a good point about the need for higher wages, but misses the mark. A living wage campaign makes more sense than the $20/hour campaign because child care workers are paid poverty wages, a fact missed when we demand a dollar amount instead of demanding a [...]]]></description>
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