Childcare
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City council approves final design for child-care centre to address Penticton childminding shortageThe city applied for and received a $2.9-million grant from the provincial government and the Union of BC Municipalities to build the child-care centre in Kiwanis Park.PoliticsMay 6
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Childcare, school staff, first responders in Fraser Health can book vaccinations this weekThe plan is to complete the immunizations over the next 10 days.HealthMay 4
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COVID-19: MLHU expanding vaccination to eligible child-care workersThe health unit says eligibility will expand to those in unlicensed child-care settings 'once this direction has been provided by the provincial government.'HealthApr 28
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Alberta pumps brakes on national child-care programLess than 24 hours after Canada's finance minister rolled out what advocates are calling a historic investment in child care, Alberta's premier is opposing it.PoliticsApr 20
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Saskatchewan parents, advocates welcome potential $10-a-day childcareFederal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland committed to bringing childcare fees to an average of $10 a day in regulated centres by 2025-26.CanadaApr 20
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New Brunswick mother ‘really hopeful’ about Ottawa’s childcare promise"I think it is a gamechanger for families in Canada," says Catherine Cross, the executive director of the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Nova ScotiaCanadaApr 20
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B.C. budget expands $10-a-day childcare, boosts pay for early childhood educatorsThe NDP government's 2021 budget sees childcare spending climb by $233 million over three years, to a total of $2.3 billion by 2023-2024.EconomyApr 20
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Canada’s federal budget: A financial expert breaks it downFrom Canada's proposals on a national daycare program to introducing a new digital services tax, financial expert Preet Banerjee takes a closer look at the 2021 federal budget.LifestyleApr 20
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Proposed legislation would open adoption records in Nova ScotiaThe new act also includes measures to protect he privacy of the adoptee or the birth parent, with each having the option to file a disclosure veto.CanadaMar 12
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North end Halifax communities welcome road safety changes but wonder why it’s taken so longReduced speed limit and marked crosswalks are some of the new safety measures coming to Halifax north end streets.CanadaMar 11
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