Ontario Child Care

• Ontario unlikely to hit $10-a-day child care target next year, minister concedes

  The Ford government has been trying to implement a promise made by former prime minister Justin Trudeau to offer families across the country access to affordable childcare.

  Education

  Oct 1, 2025
  
• Ontario auditor general has ‘active audits’ on special ed, child care: internal docs

  The information is contained within a briefing document prepared for Education Minister Paul Calandra in March, which says there are "active audits" underway on both topics.

  Education

  Jul 3, 2025
  
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• Ontario cutting funding from daycare centres not in $10-a-day program

  Ontario child-care centres that aren't participating in the national $10-a-day program will soon lose provincial funding to offer fee subsidies to lower-income families.

  Canada

  Sep 6, 2024
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• Ontario reduces child-care fees, introduces new operator funding formula

  Ontario child-care operators in the national $10-a-day program will soon be compensated in a way the province says will cover the true cost of providing care.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2024
• Cap on for-profit centres hampering growth of $10-a-day child-care system in Ontario

  Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2024
• Land, buildings sought as need for Peterborough County child-care spaces surges

  As of April, there are 3,700 children in Peterborough city and county on a wait-list for a child-care service.

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2024
• Meet an Ontario family who say they’re out of options for child care

  Megan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation.

  Education

  Mar 15, 2024
• Child-care wait lists balloon in many Ontario regions amid $10-a-day program

  Child-care wait lists have ballooned across Ontario since the province signed on to the national $10-a-day program.

  Canada

  Mar 1, 2024
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• New Toronto school child care centres face uncertainty amid cost concerns

  Toronto school boards are calling on the province of Ontario for more funding to build new child care facilities in schools across the city.

  Politics

  Mar 1, 2024
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• Ontario ECEs among lowest paid in Canada, advocates say

  Advocates say that ECEs in Ontario are among the lowest paid in the country, and say that raising their wages is critical to the success of the $10-a-day child-care program.

  Canada

  Oct 17, 2023