B.C. says fund will help create 22,000 childcare spaces by 2021

British Columbia’s children’s minister visited a childcare facility in Coquitlam today to explain how the government intends to create thousands more childcare spaces across the province.
Katrine Conroy says providers can now apply to a new fund for a portion of the $237 million that was announced in the spring budget for such programs.
She says $221 million has been earmarked specifically for the new spaces fund and it will be available to private-sector, non-profit and public-secto