About Us

Child Caring Canada (childcaring.ca) is an independent website for parents and caregivers looking for licensed child care in Ontario and Alberta. It is run by Good Caring Media Inc.

What you’ll find here

• Pages for licensed child care centres and programs in Ontario and Alberta, built from the facts the provinces publish: the name and address, the licensee (Ontario), the programs offered and, for Alberta, the licensed capacity, an inspection date and the number of non-compliance findings.
• Lists of those centres for each province, and for each city in Ontario.
• Explainers on programs and benefits that matter to families, such as EarlyON, the Canada Child Benefit and education savings.

Where the facts come from

The facts on our centre pages come from open data published by the two provinces:

• Ontario: Licensed child care facilities in Ontario, published by the Ministry of Education on the Ontario Data Catalogue.
• Alberta: Child Care Information, published by Children and Family Services on Alberta’s Open Government Portal.

Alberta doesn’t publish who owns a child care operator. On Alberta pages, the owner and the number of affiliate locations come from our own preliminary research, and the page says so.

Our pages are not updated every time a province publishes a new file, so a page can be out of date or wrong. Before you decide on a centre, confirm the details with the centre itself and with the province.

Centre pages also include general information that we wrote, for example about types of programs and how child care is regulated. We don’t visit, inspect, rate or rank centres.

Independent, and no endorsements

Child Caring Canada is not run by, or affiliated with, the Government of Ontario or the Government of Alberta. A centre being listed on this site is not a recommendation or an endorsement.

The site is paid for by advertising from Google AdSense (see our Advertising Policy). Advertisers don’t decide which centres are listed or what their pages say.

Spotted a mistake?

Email us at editor@childcaring.ca with the address of the page and what needs fixing. A link to the official source helps us correct it quickly. More ways to reach us are on our Contact Us page.