Without deliberate digital safeguards, our society risks compromising children’s abilities to develop empathy and emotional resilience. Children walk with their parents in North Vancouver for the first day back-to-school in September 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Children’s best interests should anchor Canada’s approach to their online privacy

Early experiences shapes children’s developmental trajectories, and despite pressures to adapt to AI in education, there is a need for caution and safeguarding children’s privacy.
When four- and five-year-old children are provided with a full day of schooling, space is freed in child-care centres that is instantly filled by younger children. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages)

Children’s early learning belongs in neighbourhood schools

Access to schooling for four-year-olds is inconsistent across Canada. Families need to know children are immersed in high-quality early learning, and they shouldn’t be exhausted searching for it.

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