Susan Prentice PhD🇨🇦
@susanprentice
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Duff Roblin Professor of Government, Sociology, U of Manitoba, Canada | Care, gender, family policy, childcare, intersectionality, reconciliation. 🇨🇦
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined April 2009
Smart insights - how the 'Square One' Fallacy operates: claiming that we need to study something that has already been extensively studied. Characterized by bad faith questioning, which badgers experts with the same repeated question.
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RT @alexhimelfarb: @JimboStanford providing resources to fight back against threats and disinformation
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RT @JimboStanford: A reminder Cda subsidizes US not the other way around. See our @futurework_cda report for 3 unusual features of 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 tr…
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RT @deonandan: My op-ed today in Canada Healthwatch: "There will be fallout from Trump’s WHO withdrawal"
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RT @KatrinaCHome: Canada’s $10/day ChildCare has created 50K+ jobs, boosted GDP by $32B, and increased FT employment for 175K women, as hig…
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RT @TheLawofWork: First thing fascists working with oligarchs do is go after organized labor, the most important private check on corporate…
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RT @sharongregson: Canadian voters want quality $10aDay Child Care - we understand it’s a direct link to labour force participation for par…
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RT @ktlnapeters: Read my article for Spring about what we can expect from Poilievre around #CWELCC and why tax credits and universal benefi…
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RT @Brynne_SW: This month, our family’s fees went down by over $400/month — a big step towards $10/day child care in #OnPoli. Sadly, some…
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RT @CascadeInst: January 20th marks more than an inauguration—it's a historic inflection point. A new @globeandmail op-ed by the @CascadeI…
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RT @cblackst: Canada created the backlog - and left the burden of it on the shoulders of children. The best holiday gift Canada could give…
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RT @JimboStanford: I'll join a webinar Tues Dec3 7pm ET hosted by @Child_Care_Now as part of their "10 Days of Action for $10-a-day Child C…
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RT @DianneSaxe: Huge thanks to the four Toronto universities who have, at my request, thrown their weight and expertise behind Toronto's bi…
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@matlau10 Quite to the contrary - Quebec shows there are positive effects for families, children, and the economy from the higher-quality non-profit ELCC sector and real concerns in the parallel for-profit sector, where quality is more troubling.
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RT @RBReich: Researchers at the London School of Economics found that 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy did not trickle down to the midd…
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RT @CCPAMB: Read more of Alex Himelfarb’s work at in time for Thursdays public talk with Dr. Jesse Hajer! Don’t for…
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Very valuable and encouraging economic insights on the Canadian $10/day childcare plan contained in this report
Here's my summary for @rabbleca of our new @CntrFutureWork research cataloguing the economic benefits already visible from Canada's new national $10-a-day child care program: #canlab #cdnecon /2
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RT @BrentToderian: When you remember that mobility in cities is largely about space, & when you see the striking math involved, you underst…
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"The ELCC sector ranks as the sixth-largest job-creating sector in Canada's entire economy over the past 5 years" ... with a far larger employment boost than traditionally-assumed drivers like natural resources or manufacturing.
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