{"id":549683,"date":"2026-03-20T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:06:14","slug":"next-weeks-budget-will-boost-child-care-funding-manitoba-finance-minister-says-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549683\/","title":{"rendered":"Next week\u2019s budget will boost child care funding, Manitoba finance minister says \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s finance minister says next week\u2019s budget will include more money for child care.<\/p>\n

Adrien Sala says the spending plan will include money for a 2.9 per cent wage increase for early childhood education workers and 2,000 new child care spaces.<\/p>\n

Sala made the announcement at a Winnipeg child care centre, after handing out shoes to several children.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala hands out shoes to children at Linwood Childcare Centre in Winnipeg on March 20, 2026. This is part of a pre-budget news conference on child care funding. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Steve Lambert<\/p>\n

He says the government remains committed to producing a balanced budget before the next election, slated for October 2027.<\/p>\n

The deficit for the current fiscal year, which ends at the end of March, has jumped to $1.6 billion and Sala says the upcoming fiscal year will show progress toward balance.<\/p>\n

The NDP government has dropped broad hints at other measures expected in the budget, including more money for police, corrections officers, nurse training and cardiac care at St. Boniface Hospital.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s finance minister says next week\u2019s budget will include more money for child care. Adrien Sala…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-549683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}