Feb. 11, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Patrick Cain, Global News
Jillane Mignon just needed cash to pay for day care.
Her job with the City of Winnipeg’s 311 program covered the bills, but not the $1,000 a month it cost to care for her son while she was at work.
“When there are [child care] subsidies, there are no spaces. When there are spaces, there’s no subsidy.”
So it started with a small loan from a payday lender. That took care of that month.
TORONTO — Jodi Aslin is 41 years old and seven months pregnant.
In Ontario, she’s no longer an anomaly.
Ms. Aslin was in no rush to start a family: She spent her 20s studying social work and teaching English in Korea, and met her husband at 34. A year later, they decided they wanted children.
It took almost five years and more than $20,000 in fertility treatments, but her daughter Jamie is now two years old. Ms. Aslin’s second child is due in April.
“We recognize that we’re in the older crowd, but we’re happy. I feel great.”
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