Starting this month, the families of about 1,300 of those children will have something else to deal with: extra cost after a government program for $25-a-day daycare came to an end earlier this week. The first phase affected 22 Alberta daycares, with about 1,300 spaces. The second phase of the program added almost 6,000 subsidized spaces to another 100 centres. On Thursday, the Alberta Opposition NDP said a universal affordable child-care program should be implemented at all non-profit daycares, private centres and family day homes. A spokesperson for Children's Services told CBC that the government will be "working with some of the centres serving lower income families to ensure families don't experience hardship."

Source: CBC News July 02, 2020 22:31 UTC