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PHOTOS: Sandusky Witches Walk 2026
Many people attended the Sandusky Witches Walk event throughout downtown Sandusky on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Many people attended the Sandusky Witches Walk event throughout downtown Sandusky on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. SUSAN PRENTICE/For the Register 1786869 Many people attended the Sandusky Witches Walk event throughout downtown Sandusky on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
PHOTOS: Parading and partying at Ohio Bike Week
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PHOTOS: Daytime delight during Ohio Bike Week
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A fun wing-watching event
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PHOTOS: 2025 Witches' Walk wows
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Luke Bryan rocks first day of Bash on the Bay
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Opinion: Greater public role in child care will accelerate gains
In Manitoba, the parents of more than 39,000 children now pay just $10/day for child care, thanks to new federal investments. This is a wise and cost-effective program for children and families — but there are still too many families who can’t find a licensed space. At present, just 20.1 per cent of Manitoba children aged 0-12 have access to a licensed child-care program.
Opinion: Developing child care for Brandon: Competing visions
As families in Brandon stare down the reality of living a “child care desert,” they can take heart that some good, as well as some troubling, change is on the horizon. Brandon is not unique in being a child care desert: overall in Manitoba, there is a licensed child space for just one in five children aged 0-12 years. But spaces are in particularly short supply in the Wheat City, where about 6,700 children under the age of nine are vying for one of just 1,000 child care spaces.
High Stakes: The “Investable” Child and the Economic Reframing of Childcare
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Opinion: Child care also an austerity victim
A recently renewed federal-provincial child-care announcement and Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day child care create the perception that the province of Manitoba has increased funding and support for child care. The reality is quite different. Federal funding accounts for all of the increases in child care spending in Manitoba since 2017. As a result, our province appears to be congratulating itself for what are really new national investments in child care.
No good reason for Ontario to delay signing child-care agreement
All Ontarians – not just parents of young children – should welcome Ottawa’s national child-care policy and urge the province to sign on. Ontario is the last holdout on the national initiative. While Premier Doug Ford dithers, a small minority is trying to weaken the pan-Canadian policy. They are trying to undermine the national approach, for reasons that include skepticism, financial self-interest and old-fashioned nostalgia for the 1950s family.
We Must Eliminate Profit-Making From Child Care and Elder Care
A pair of sociology experts say profit needs to be removed from elder and child care in order for the two sectors to provide adequate care. Photo: Cecilie_Arcurs/GettyImages Child care and elder care have a great deal in common. They are both considered primarily family responsibilities, justifying low public investment. At an earlier historical moment, both child care and elder care were seen as the responsibility of charitable and benevolent societies.
No more for-profit care for children, elders
Child care and elder care have a great deal in common. They are both considered primarily family responsibilities, justifying low public investment. Child care and elder care have a great deal in common. They are both considered primarily family responsibilities, justifying low public investment. At an earlier historical moment, both child care and elder care were seen as the responsibility of charitable and benevolent societies.
We must eliminate profit-making from child care and elder care
Child care and elder care have a great deal in common. They are both considered primarily family responsibilities, justifying low public investment. At an earlier historical moment, both child care and elder care were seen as the responsibility of charitable and benevolent societies.
We must eliminate profit-making from child care and elder care
Profits have no place in the care of our children and aging parents and grandparents. (OC Gonzalez/Unsplash) Child care and elder care have a great deal in common. They are both considered primarily family responsibilities, justifying low public investment. At an earlier historical moment, both child care and elder care were seen as the responsibility of charitable and benevolent societies.
Building a national child-care system requires a coherent, ambitious approach
There is growing consensus that post-pandemic recovery will be impossible without major public spending to make high-quality child care available and affordable for parents. The 2020 speech from the throne promised that Ottawa would be ambitious and “make a significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early-learning and child-care system,” drawing on lessons from Quebec, which began its universal child-care project more than 20 years ago.
Pandemic punctures child-care illusion
Who knew child care would punch through as a key priority in a global pandemic? The illusion that child care is a simple and private family matter has been shattered by swiftly moving events. For years, Canadian governments could treat child care as a marginal issue of low priority; that consensus is now gone.
Daycare should be affordable to all
A new report on child-care fees contains mixed reviews of Manitoba and raises important questions about public policy. A closer look complicates the congratulatory confidence that Manitoba’s fees are among the lowest in Canada (“City second in daycare affordability,” Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 8). For families with young children, Manitoba’s child-care deficit is a grave concern. The province has a licensed child-care space for fewer than one in five children, much worse than the national average.
Beyond baby steps: Planning for a national child care system
Families today need a well planned and properly financed child care system. Justin Trudeau’s government has made big promises to Canadian families.
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