KITCHENER Leaders in Waterloo Region said they re mostly pleased with the funding announcements included in the federal budget. Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic and Regional Chair Karen Redman agreed the national child-care program is a big win for the region. They also highlighted spending on 35,000 new housing units and $50 million over two years to support regional economic development. This is absolutely critical at a time like this, especially as we look at the needs in our own community around supportive housing and deeply affordable housing going forward, Vrbanovic said. We can look at affordable housing, we can look at investment and infrastructure, we can point to Phase Two of the LRT, as well as investments in two-way, all-day GO, Redman said. We have many projects that are shovel-read and are priorities for this community, so $50 million sounds like a lot of money. There s a lot of municipalities, but we have done our due diligence so we are really hap
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As the Ford government rolled out its recently announced Emergency Child Care for Critical Frontline Workers on Monday, staff at Emmanuel at Brighton Child Care in Waterloo staged a day of advocacy in protest of a perceived lack of support for childcare workers across the province. The scheduled walk off was accompanied by a virtual livestream through the centre’s Facebook page, with scheduled guest speakers including local dignitaries, centre management and parents of children that attend the childcare space.
Speaking on behalf of the workers at Emmanuel at Brighton was staff spokesperson Emilie Borghese, who said the decision to withdraw service and go without pay was not one that was taken lightly. Borghese called the lack of prioritization in the vaccine roll out for childhood educators and childcare staff “dangerous and negligent”, as staff work in close quarters with unmasked children on a regular basis. Advocating on behalf of all early childhood educators,