March 17, 2026 — “It feels like an insult and it feels like we don’t matter,” says Patrice Gordon of Child Care Now NL, responding to Newfoundland and Labrador’s decision to leave the early childhood educator Wage Grid unchanged. Full story at CBC.
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An upcoming update to the federal-provincial $10-a-day child-care program is missing important improvements for early childhood educators, according to an advocate in the sector.
For Patrice Gordon, one of the most glaring gaps in the document that regulates the program is a missing wage increase.
“I have no words, really, because that’s the first thing I looked for when I saw the document,” said Gordon, a steering committee member of advocacy group Child Care Now N.L. and an early childhood educator herself.