BC's Child Care Squeeze

B.C.'s child-care squeeze 'so much more stressful than it has ever been'

By Tiffany Crawford
Published on: September 24, 2016 in the Vancouver Sun
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Jamie Garrett, an east Vancouver mother of two school-age children, often feels like she works just to pay for child care. 

Ironically, the 38-year-old single mom is employed in early childhood learning, spending her days taking care of other people’s kids until she can pick up her own — an eight-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter — in after-school care at 5:30 p.m.

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