Starting in December, parents in British Columbia will save as much as an additional $550 per month for each child they have in participating licensed child care centres. “Child care is one of the biggest bills many families face each month,” said Katrina Chen, B.C.’s...
Surrey roughly 11,000 spaces short compared to national average, Coun. Linda Annis says The City of Surrey is asking the school district and provincial government to provide daycare space in the schools before and after classes. Surrey ccouncil approved a motion to...
B.C. Premier John Horgan's marquee campaign promise — the one that helped him get elected in 2017, then re-elected last fall — may be in jeopardy, or at least further complicated, depending on the outcome of this federal election. The main parties have all made...
The issue of child care in this federal election is quickly shaping up to be a showdown between what the Conservatives are offering on the one side and what the rest of the parties represented in Parliament are offering on the other. On Monday, Conservative Leader...
The federal government is putting big money on the table—with yet-to-be-determined strings attached—to establish a Canada-wide child care system that it paints as being both a defining legacy project and an essential public service whose economic urgency the pandemic...
Owners’ association questions province’s decision to keep daycares open and warns of losing spaces as razor-thin profit margins are obliterated B.C. preschools and daycares remain open during spring break and lack substantial coronavirus pandemic guidance, says Amanda...
Flu season is in full swing, and local child care experts say if your kids are sick, they should stay at home — even if that means you, as a parent, need to take time off work as well. Tracy Fotiuk, executive director of Winnipeg’s Sugar n’ Spice day care, told 680...
In B.C., child care is nearly impossible to find and expensive to boot. Vancouver alone is short 16,274 spaces. Help is coming, albeit slowly Updated: June 14, 2019 Vancouver is thinking outside the box to boost licenced childcare spaces Kartiki Deshpande and her...
Child care operators say the annual process to opt into a fee reduction program is again riddled with confusion and delays, a year after the NDP government first launched the strategy to tackle affordability. Amanda Worms with the B.C. Child Care Owners Association...