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Those damn heartless PC are at it again, if they keep this up the NDP will have nothing to complain about. The are suppose to be closing day cares and throwing kids out on the street, I thought based on what some people think of the PC.

from FreePress
Manitoba to add 14 new rural child care hubs
A federal-provincial program to boost the number of regulated child care centres in Manitoba has been expanded by more than 400 spaces.

On Thursday, Early Childhood Learning Minister Wayne Ewasko said 14 additional rural and remote communities will be getting a new child care centre under the Canada-Manitoba Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement.

In November, the federal and provincial governments said $70 million had been earmarked to build 1,200 new, regulated non-profit child care spaces focused in rural and First Nations communities.

The new facilities are modular, prefabricated buildings that can be readily transported and built in communities across Manitoba.

Local partners and municipalities have to provide at least two acres of serviced land for 15 years rent-free and provide snow removal, landscape maintenance and repair services.

The first phase of the program included nine communities and 650 child care spaces, with plans to expand to eight more communities in Phase 2.

Ewasko said the second phase of the program will now include 14 facilities and 1,004 child care spaces.