New Childcare spaces on the way for Nanaimo-Ladysmith, with SD-68 to receive majority for region
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The Provincial Health Officer has added new requirements to her health orders for bars and restaurants.
New COVID numbers show no new deaths but 34 new cases, including one in the Island Health Region. That brings the number of active cases here to nine.
Ten schools in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District will get new daycare spaces. The Minister of State for Child Care says 406 before and after school care spaces will be created, but there are no dates set for construction yet.
The new after school spaces are in addition to two other daycare projects for preschoolers in Nanaimo.
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📷 Sheila Malcolmson, MLA for Nanaimo, and Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care. It was announced today that thousands of families in 34 B.C. communities will soon have access to quality, licensed child care / via Province of British Columbia
