City manager Chris Murray emailed Mayor John Tory and Toronto’s 25 councillors the grim bombshell — the results of city staff number-crunching — on Thursday. Premier Doug Ford’s child-care cuts and policy changes are expected to cost the City of Toronto $84.8 million this year alone and jeopardize 6,166 subsidized daycare spaces for low-income parents, according to city staff calculations. The memo to council says Ford’s April 18 provincial budget didn’t provide enough detail to determine Toronto’s 2019 funding allocation for subsidized child-care. “Child care fee subsidies are funded out of General Allocation and Expansion Plan funding. On Thursday the City of Hamilton estimated the subsidy cut alone will cost that city $3.5 million.

Source: thestar May 02, 2019 21:11 UTC