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Report finds no fault with police in September fatal shooting A5
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Council endorses $10/day child care KAMLOOPS THE 56TH COMMUNITY, REGIONAL DISTRICT IN B.C. TO DO SO JESSICA WALLACE
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OSCAR AND OPRAH ARE BACK ON STAGE
The ospreys returned recently to The Dunes in Kamloops and both look healthy. Dubbed Oscar and Oprah by Westsyde resident Gordon Gore, who documents their lives with his camera, Oprah decided against sharing her catch with the family and flew to a nearby pole to devour on her own.
Kamloops council has endorsed what the province says is one of the largest social policy shifts in B.C.’s history — $10-a-day child care. However, it is unclear when universal child care will be available to all B.C. residents, as promised by the NDP during the 2017 election campaign. “It’s going to take time, unfortunately,” said the program’s provincial spokesperson, Sharon Gregson, of Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. Gregson was at city hall on Tuesday, requesting council’s support and detailing a 10-year plan, which is currently in its first year. “Because the crisis was allowed to get so bad, there’s only
enough child-care spaces in B.C. for about 20 per cent of children,” she said. “Early-childhood educators earn below a living wage and fees are sky high. That kind of thing doesn’t changed overnight.” Council unanimously agreed to draft a resolution in support of the proposed $10-aday plan. Kamloops is the 56th local/regional government to endorse the plan, in addition to more than 30 school districts. The plan envisions quality and affordable universal child care by moving child care out of the Ministry of Family and Child Development and into the Ministry of Education, capping child-care fees at $10 a day, purchasing modular buildings to place on public land across the province and improving early child-care
educator wages. Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian said council’s support is consistent with its recent application for provincial funding to collect data on the state of child care locally. Anecdotally, he said, he has heard of a “considerable deficit” for child care in Kamloops. The city’s role won’t be made more clear until after that deficit is studied and fully understood. Funding, however, will come from the provincial and federal governments. “But I think, just as our role with affordable housing is concerned, we have to facilitate those kinds of things here that would be helpful,” he said, though noting to what capacity — such as land — is unclear. See CHILD CARE, A6
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