Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said the five-year agreement will cut the province’s average fees for regulated spaces in half by the end of 2022 and to $10 a day by 2026. It’s also funding 28,000 new spaces for children under six in the province.(The Logic)

Talking point: The agreement leaves Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick as the only provinces that haven’t signed up for the federal government’s funding for $10-a-day child care, which is aimed at making it easier for women to work and promoting a post-pandemic recovery. Saskatchewan’s conservative Saskatchewan Party often joins Alberta and Ontario, in particular, in being publicly chilly toward the federal Liberals, and Freeland called this agreement “a really, really big deal” between governments that “are not 100 per cent aligned.” Saskatchewan Education Minister Dustin Duncan said reaching it took just “a couple of weeks” once negotiations became serious in July.