What is minimum wage in Ontario? They are increasing it to $10.45 an hour in Manitoba next month, if that tells anything about cost of living here. WE have a hot real estate market here too, with lots of bidding wars. When we were house buying almost 3 years ago every listing we looked at went for atleast $20,000 more than the list price. But not alot for $700,000, probably 4 or 5 hundred thousand for a really nice house here.

But I am a government funded licensed daycare, so I only charge parents $18.20 a day for preschoolers and $22.20 for infants - but I don't provide any food or milk. Then I get a top up from the government per licensed spot, a couple dollars per day per licensed spot. I rarely see a spot advertised for more than $30 a day, sometimes $35. It doesn't seem to matter the education background of the provider, I am a school teacher and wouldn't have charged more than $30 a day if I wasn't funded. And that is in a province with a severe lack of daycare spots. You ladies with trouble filling spots should come to Winnipeg, you'd have no trouble!