Occasional papers series
The Occasional paper series focuses on specific issues, by invited authors with expertise in these issues.
All CRRU publications are available for free download: follow the title link from the list below. PDF attachments can be accessed from each publication page.
- Canada's child care workforce (Occasional paper 35, 17 Nov 2021)
- Risky business: Child care ownership in Canada past, present and future (Occasional paper 34, 30 Jun 2021)
- Struggles and sit-ins: The early years of Campus Community Co-operative Day Care Centre and child care in Canada ( 30 Jun 2021)
- Federal funding supporting Canadian early learning and child care advocacy, research and capacity building 1988 – 2007 (Occasional paper 32, 17 Nov 2020)
- A bad bargain for us all: Why the market doesn’t deliver child care that works for Canadian children and families (Occasional paper 31, 30 May 2019)
- Child care can't wait till the cows come home: Rural child care in the Canadian context (Occasional paper 30, 29 Sep 2015)
- Work around the clock: A snapshot of non-standard hours child care in Canada (Occasional paper 29, 13 Sep 2015)
- Background paper on unregulated child care for the Home child care: More than a home project (Occasional paper 28, 23 Jun 2015)
- Inclusion of young children with disabilities in regulated child care in Canada. A snapshot: Research, policy and practice (Occasional paper 27, 9 Jul 2013)
- Childcare markets: Do they work? (Occasional paper 26, 14 Feb 2012)
- A matter of choice: A critical discourse analysis of ECEC policy in Canada's 2006 federal election (Occasional paper 25, 13 Dec 2011)
- Innovations in provincial early learning curriculum frameworks (Occasional paper 24, 14 Apr 2010)
- Can early childhood education and care help keep Canada’s promise of respect for diversity? (Occasional paper 23, 14 Jan 2010)
- Canadian early learning and child care and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Occasional paper 22, 14 Jun 2006)
- For-profit child care: Past, present and future (Occasional paper 21 [EN & FR], 14 Oct 2005)
- The OECD and the reconciliation agenda: Competing blueprints (Occasional paper 20, 14 Jul 2005)
- ‘Choice’ discourse in BC child care: Distancing policy from research (Occasional paper 19, 14 Sep 2004)
- Child care by default or design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets (Occasional paper 18, 14 Aug 2002)
- Reforming Québec's early childhood care and education: The first five years (Occasional paper 17 [EN & FR], 14 Apr 2002)
- An integrated approach to early childhood education and care: A preliminary study (Occasional paper 16, 14 Jan 2002)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities (Occasional paper 15, 14 Aug 2001)
- Women, citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s (Occasional paper 13, 14 Mar 2001)
- More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada (Occasional paper 12, 14 Oct 2000)
- Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine (Occasional paper 11, 14 Aug 2000)
- How should we care for babies and toddlers? An analysis of practice in out-of-home care for children under three (Occasional paper 10, 14 Jun 1999)
- Neo-conservatism and child care services in Alberta: A case study (Occasional paper 9, 14 Jan 1997)
- The great child care debate: The long-term effects of non-parental child care (Occasional paper 7, 14 Jan 1996)
- Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement (Occasional paper 8, 14 Jan 1996)
- Child care: Canada can’t work without it (Occasional paper 5, 14 Jan 1995)
- A sociological examination of the child care auspice debate (Occasional paper 6, 14 Jan 1995)
- Rural child care in Ontario (Occasional paper 4, 14 Jan 1994)
- Proceedings from the Child Care Policy and Research Symposium (Occasional paper 2, 14 Sep 1993)
- Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada (Occasional paper 3, 14 Feb 1993)
- Child care for Canadian children and families (Occasional paper 1, 14 Jan 1993)