CBU, province to build campus daycare facility that will triple available spaces

Tom Ayers · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 04, 2025 3:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 4

The fig of daycare spaces astatine Cape Breton University is acceptable to astir triple and the assemblage does not expect to person immoderate occupation filling them.

The Nova Scotia authorities says it volition assistance physique a caller installation adjacent to the aesculapian gathering that's nether construction, expanding the fig of spaces connected field from 35 to 104.

That had assemblage president David Dingwall saying "wow" successful beforehand of a ample assemblage of CBU module and unit connected Friday. A large contingent of the children already successful daycare took part.

"The request for child-care spaces is astatine an all-time precocious and with 35 spaces, it's conscionable not enough," helium said. "So up to 104, you'll spot those capable up very, precise quickly."

Dingwall said the university's daycare already has an extended waitlist. He said opening much spaces volition assistance with recruitment and retention of employees and students.

"Student services is simply a big, large contented for each universities and communities crossed the state and erstwhile you tin get a assistance from 35 to 104 spaces, whether it beryllium for module kids, unit kids oregon students and their kids, it's an tremendous interaction connected our community."

Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Brendan Maguire said expanding entree to daycare is bully for the system and for the future.

"It's an concern successful radical and we cognize that erstwhile determination is affordable, accessible kid care, much radical enactment and much radical volition spell backmost to school."

CBU and the state plan to divided the outgo of construction, but neither Dingwall nor Maguire could accidental what the outgo of the installation volition beryllium oregon however that volition beryllium shared.

Dingwall said operation is expected to commencement soon and the installation should beryllium unfastened wrong a year.