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Carolyn Ferns
Last published July 2025 · On our record since 2014
Where this writer stands
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Recent work
- New child care study should be a wake-up call for Doug FordOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 10, 2025
- Ontario cannot allow a few for-profit child care owners to run roughshod over the $10-a-day child care planOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 28, 2024
- Doug Ford’s dangerous child-care planOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2024
- Opinion | Only way to expand child care is to raise wagesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 20, 2023
- Opinion | Ontario’s for-profit child-care owners demonstrate why they can’t be trusted to build Canada’s $10-a-day child-care systemOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 4, 2022
- Opinion | As Alberta signs the federal agreement, everyone is asking: Where is Ontario’s child care plan?Opinion · Toronto Star · Nov 16, 2021
- Opinion | Has the pandemic really changed Doug Ford? A decent child-care deal would be a start in proving itOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 7, 2021
- Child care is on the ballot, an issue that will make a tangible difference to Canadian familiesOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 17, 2021
- Opinion | Child care is on the ballot, an issue that will make a tangible difference to Canadian familiesOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 16, 2021
- Opinion: Child care will be the defining issue of the electionOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 20, 2021
- Opinion | As a federal child-care plan moves ahead, Doug Ford risks Ontario being left behindOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2021
- Stephen Lecce’s letter to parents doubles down on the Ford government’s half-baked child care planOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 14, 2020
- It’s time for the federal government to get serious about child care | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2019
- B.C. advances on child care while Ontario takes a step back | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 17, 2018
- Solving Ontario’s child care crisisOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 8, 2017
- Solving Ontario’s child care crisis | Toronto StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 7, 2017
- Universal child care the perfect Mother’s Day giftOpinion · Toronto Star · May 8, 2016
- Universal child care the perfect Mother’s Day gift | Toronto StarOpinion · Toronto Star · May 7, 2016
- Sticks, carrots and a real child-care systemOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 12, 2014