Last winter, the
New York Times set up an anonymous phone line for the “parent who’s tired as hell” to vent into. That audio clips of women confessing in low voices that they’re sick of their kids or maybe not cut out for motherhood, as well as wordless howls of anguish was the intro to a larger reported series on a pandemic-fuelled crisis among American mothers. Or, more accurately, that this pandemic has exposed. Like many others, I was overwhelmed while listening.
But while I was sympathetic to the voices on that vent line, it was difficult to feel angry or galvanized even as a mother juggling work and domestic labour and staring down the arrival of a second child at the time. Instead, I just felt sad. I closed my laptop and shoved another load of laundry into the dryer.
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I’ve never purchased a car, but when I registered my 10-month old twins for daycare, I got the rush that must come with buying one. I got out my chequebook, calculated what $90 per day for a year would equal and then divided it by months. It was the instalment plan, but for babies.
Because I live in Quebec, once a spot was available at a publicly-funded daycare, the price dropped from $45 per day per child to just $7.30. It took two years for two public spots to open up, though it usually takes less time to find a spot for a single toddler. But while my kids were in private care, I received several thousand dollars back at tax time thanks to Quebec’s child care tax refunds. Not ideal, but better than in most places in
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TORONTO The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and brought to light issues with Canada s long-term care facilities, wreaking havoc on residents and exposing poor conditions and care, leaving some seniors actively looking at living at home longer. âPeople are scared, they saw what happened. They have every right to be fearful. They donât trust the system as is, particularly the for-profit element of it,â Vivian Stamatopoulos, associate professor at Ontario Tech University and long-term care advocate and researcher, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Monday. The majority of COVID-19 deaths in Canada have been in long-term care homes. According to a tally kept by Nora Loreto, a writer who has been tracking COVID-19 deaths in residential care since the start of the pandemic, as of March 7, 2021, 15,597 Canadians living in long-term care have died from COVID-19. That is 70 per cent of Canadaâs overall deaths as of March 7.