The six-year agreement includes the promise of nearly immediate rebates on the fees parents pay—applicable to payments for April, though they won’t come through until May—and the promise that average child-care fees will fall to $10 a day by 2025. (The Logic)

Talking point: Canada’s most populous province was the last holdout as the federal government went around the country making deals aimed at cutting costs for families with young children and making it easier for parents, especially women, to join the paid workforce. Ontario wanted credit for its existing full-day kindergarten programs; the new agreement extends one year longer than other provinces’ (with a built-in review at the three-year mark), allows the province to fund for-profit as well as non-profit daycares and commits Ontario to boosting pay slightly for early-childhood educators as it hires more of them to staff 86,000 more spaces.