News Items tag as: Childcare

Kamloops daycare with hundreds on waitlist plans expansion
September 24, 2024 - 4:30 PM

A Kamloops daycare planning an expansion has a waitlist nearing 1,000.
$2 million for new school-based daycare slots in Penticton
May 13, 2024 - 11:30 AM

There are new childcare spaces at a daycare on elementary school grounds in Penticton.
Kelowna's Childhood Connections fighting to keep its doors open
April 09, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Childhood Connections, a not-for-profit organization in Kelowna that offers several childcare resources, has lost its government funding after it was diverted to the YMCA of Southern Interior.
'MORE THAN OUR MORTGAGE:' Kelowna daycare boosted rates to $1,700 per month
December 11, 2023 - 7:00 AM

Parents at a Kelowna day care are looking for answers after fees were raised $800 for many kids in the program to $1,700 per child, per month — after a $900 government rebate.
Why an Okanagan family is moving back to Vancouver to find childcare
December 01, 2023 - 7:30 AM

The state of childcare in the Okanagan seems to have reached a crisis point and parents are being put in near-impossible situations.
Parents fight back against B.C. defunding Kelowna child development centre
February 01, 2023 - 6:00 AM

There’s an old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Kelowna child development centre fighting closure by provincial government
January 26, 2023 - 3:32 PM

Kelowna’s Starbright Children’s Development Centre has been helping preschool children with special needs for 57 years but that’s about to end for the non-profit organization now that the provincial government has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a private, for-profit business to create a “Family Connection Centre.”
Little recourse for B.C. parents overcharged for daycare
December 06, 2022 - 6:00 AM

Parents who believe they're getting overcharged by their daycare are worried about losing their kid’s spot if they complain to loudly.
B.C. government creating 240 childcare spaces in Okanagan
April 21, 2022 - 10:51 AM

The province is creating 240 new childcare spaces in throughout the Okanagan.
'Crisis situation': New Kamloops daycare fills quickly, underlines childcare crunch
September 22, 2021 - 6:30 AM

A new childcare centre is opening in Kamloops after one and a half years of preparing the building and it still won't meet the need for childcare spaces in the city.
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JONESIE: The lessons of free-range children long forgotten
OPINION When we were kids, we knew every inch of our neighbourhood. We ran around town till ten minutes before mom got home, which on weekends was often 2 a.m. Bad news for us when she got home early. We knew every vacant lot,

Popular spots to enjoy ramen in Okanagan, Kamloops
Fall is here and the weather is turning colder so many are turning to comfort foods in the Okanagan and Kamloops. A warm, hearty soup is a definite go-to during the chilly seasons and one particular style, ramen, is becoming more and more p

Growers and processors selected through a lottery for Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program
Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program should be positioned to ramp up quickly, but having products available for some patients at the outset will be a challenge, Gov. Andy Beshear says. Beshear's administration took a big ste

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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