Out of 2,621 survey respondents, more than 800 were stuck on more than five different waitlists.
childcare
September 20, 2024
12:00PM
Eighty-four per cent of parents with young children agreed that long wait lists remain a problem in the province.
July 12, 2024
2:30AM
Many families in the province are struggling to find child care.
May 31, 2024
8:37AM
The government has pumped huge amounts of money into inflating demand for licenced child-care spaces.
May 23, 2024
10:04AM
Massive government spending has inflated demand but supply has not kept up.
April 12, 2024
9:22AM
Only public and non-profit providers have access to the billions in government grants.
March 2, 2024
5:30AM
Last year, the percentage of children in the province who attended child care fell from 61 per cent to 56 per cent.
February 8, 2024
5:30AM
More than 58 per cent of families in the province reported difficulty finding child care in 2023 compared to 46.5 per cent in 2019.
January 11, 2024
9:27AM
Price control means child-care operators are unable to raise fees to reflect the increased cost of doing business.