| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The early learning and child care sector is evolving in increasingly complex and challenging environments. Identifying innovative practices and solutions that better meet the needs of children and families is necessary to improving early learning and child care practices for the benefit of families in Canada.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The following is a list of the approved early learning and child care innovation projects across Canada.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Service Canada staff are working hard to serve Canadians and decrease passport wait times as they work through unprecedented demands. Since April 1, 2022, close to 1.2 million Canadian passports have been issued. Service Canada continues to introduce a variety of new measures to improve passport service delivery.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) is a blueprint for change to make Canada more inclusive for persons with disabilities. It is based on the understanding that disability inclusion benefits everyone.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Persons with disabilities face physical, financial, attitudinal and other barriers to participating in society. Many of these barriers are systemic and long-standing. The Government of Canada is working with the disability community to remove those barriers, and to consciously create a more inclusive country. The work required to achieve this is extensive, and it requires meaningful and sustained action.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, will be in Sudbury to announce funding for projects that aim to improve early learning and child care programs and services across Canada.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Minister of Seniors, Kamal Khera, will be at the Pickering Caribbean Canadian Cultural Association to highlight a project funded through the New Horizons for Seniors Program. This funding continues to create opportunities for seniors to stay active and involved in their communities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maninder Sidhu will be in Barrie, Ontario, to announce new measures to improve passport service delivery.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canadians are living longer and healthier lives than previous generations and most prefer to stay in their homes and communities for as long as possible. The Government of Canada is committed to supporting programs and services that seniors need, should they want to live independently, in their homes and with the communities that support them, for as long as possible.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
In Canada, diversity is a fact, but inclusion is a choice. The Government of Canada is supporting Black Canadian communities across the country through measures built on advancing equity and diversity, in order to combat anti-Black racism and systemic racism in all their forms.
