When I worked in retail, there was a woman who would lose, at minimum, 24 hours of work each week to childcare.
Because this was retail they had basically all of us on part-time hours, because it's what's best for the employer.

See if your region or municipality offers subsidies. In Durham Region, there's no waiting list, and I believe they'll cover up to half the cost of daycare as a subsidy.

Also, look at local YMCAs, which seem to have low(ish) rates already.

My wife turned into a stay at home mom when we started having kids. Her salary wouldnt cover the costs of both childcare necessary for her to return to work.

Tell me again how I'm supposed to be making my country and society better? How about acknowledging that all levels of government are letting the critical care of the next generation flounder and fail.

I worry about what kind of society will be there to support me when I can't work anymore. I worry about the world my children seem to be inheriting.

While I understand the individual desire for advance notice to make alternate arrangements; from a protest prospective it's much more effective if daycare is closed AND a whole bunch of business lose workforce for the days due to an inability to make alternate plans.

The Liberals under Martin had negotiated universal child care with all the provinces before Harper won government and scrapped it. People voted in Harper on a mandate of 'parents choice' and as a result we got child tax credits instead. Tax credits, of course, gave lots of money to the already wealthy and almost nothing to lower and middle income Canadians.

It was Trudeau and the Liberals who replaced the child tax credits with the Canada Child benefit, a tax free, monthly, progressive benefit that goes up as your income goes down. On top of that, they negotiated with the provinces again to fund ten dollar a day childcare on a cost split arrangement. Feds/Prov/parents. The feds and the parents are keeping their part of the deal, but provinces like Alberta are not. Here in PEI the program is working (I have first hand knowledge of this from inside a not-for-profit childcare ) because the provincial government is doing its part and making its contribution.

This failing in Conservative provinces is the fault of, surprise surprise, Conservative government.

The idea that Liberals want social programs to fail is laughable, honestly, not an argument one can make in good faith.

Remember, this ALREADY works in Québec.

It can be done, they just don't want to do the work.