9+ hour, 29+ min ago   (472+ words) Thousands of Manitoba's lowest-income families will soon have access to free child care after the provincial government announced changes to its subsidy program on Wednesday. The province is eliminating child-care fees for more than 4,000 children from about 3,000 eligible families starting…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (432+ words) School districts in B.C. are set to receive an influx of cash to invest in on-site child care, after the province announced a new capital funding program on Monday. Approximately 1,200 new licensed before- and after-school child-care spaces are expected to open…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (756+ words) Securing a child-care spot is a major challenge for any parent in Nova Scotia these days, but for those who work long and unusual hours, it can be almost impossible. “I would say that it’s like our No. 1 stress,” said…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (107+ words) CBC B.C. falling behind other provinces on $10-a-day child care: study A new study finds B.C. is falling behind other provinces when it comes to universal affordable child care. This means some B.C. parents pay $10 a day while others spend up to 10 times…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (439+ words) A major expansion to a Winnipeg personal care home will include a new child-care centre with 152 spaces, making it "an intergenerational hub," provincial officials said on Monday. The centre will be in a new 20,650-square-foot wing of the Saul and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (634+ words) Advocates say Manitoba's "passive" and "ad hoc" approach to increasing access to child care needs to change in order to speed up progress and meet space-creation goals. The province said in a news release Thursday it has opened or committed…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (112+ words) CBC Yukon legislative committee releases child and family services report A Yukon legislative committee issued its own report looking into the state of child and family services in the territory. It follows a scathing report from the auditor general's office....

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (865+ words) Advocates say families in Alberta could be at risk of losing access to licensed preschool programs if the province’s current child care funding model remains unchanged. In a survey by the Association of Canadian Early Learning Programs (ACE), a majority…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1460+ words) Three years after first proposing a wage scale for Alberta's early childhood educators (ECEs), the non-profit, member-based organization advocating for the 30,000 educators who staff child-care centres is proposing another wage scale in hopes of convincing the province to change how…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (756+ words) Manitoba's advocate for children and youth says she hopes the provincial government's plan to review how the child welfare system is funded will lead to meaningful change for kids in care and the agencies that serve them, as "inequities persist…...