More than 1,000 new child-care spaces have opened across Manitoba since late 2025, including new and expanded facilities in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
The provincial and federal governments announced Thursday that 1,075 infant, preschool, nursery, and school-aged spaces have opened as part of efforts to expand access to affordable child care.<\/p>\n
“Every new child-care space means more families can go to work, go to school or pursue opportunities knowing their children are in a safe, nurturing environment,” said Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt.<\/p>\n
The governments provided capital funding for three new or expanded child-care centres in Winnipeg, along with start-up and operating funding for expansions at another 88 facilities across Manitoba. Those projects created 728 new spaces, while the province said it also created 347 school-aged spaces.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg centre adds 48 spaces<\/p>\n
Munroe Early Childhood Education Centre opened its sixth Winnipeg facility in early 2026, adding 48 spaces for families in the Chalmers area.<\/p>\n
The expansion includes 16 infant and 32 preschool spaces. Munroe now provides 359 spaces across its facilities.<\/p>\n
“We’ve long dreamed of expanding our services to provide the much-needed care that families with infants so urgently need,” said executive director Silvana Passante-Cantafio.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to our most recent renovation and expansion, we are now welcoming infants and preschoolers to Munroe on Thames.”<\/p>\n
Nearly 13,000 spaces opened or committed to<\/p>\n
Since October 2023, the federal and provincial governments have opened more than 3,700 new licensed and funded spaces for infants and nursery and preschool-aged children across Manitoba. More than 6,250 additional spaces are in planning and development.<\/p>\n
Manitoba has also opened nearly 1,800 school-aged spaces since October 2023, with more than 900 more planned.<\/p>\n
“In total, our government has opened or committed to more than 12,700 new child-care spaces for kids 12 and under since fall 2023,” Schmidt said.<\/p>\n
The new spaces are jointly supported through provincial and federal investments under the Canada-Manitoba Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 new child-care spaces have opened across Manitoba since late 2025, including new and expanded facilities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-857731","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\/857731","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=857731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}