Ontario budget cuts put 760 affordable child-care spaces at risk in Toronto, city staff say

Toronto  is now facing a $15 million gap to fund affordable child-care spaces in  the wake of provincial budget cuts, a new report says, what advocates  are calling a “reckless” and “thoughtless” move by Premier Doug Ford.

If  city council can’t find the money to fill the gap left by Ford’s  government, city staff now say, it could mean a loss of 760 subsidized  spaces in 2020 — which would “result in a return to pre-2018 levels” of  available subsidies.