Daycare spaces are so hard to find that Bradley-Jackson and her husband have to split up their kids. Their three-year-old son will be at her new employer's on-site daycare, but they have to put their six-month-old twin daughters in a day home.
"There are no breaks or subsidies in place for working moms like me," she said in her e-mail, explaining that although she'll be earning $60,000 a year in her new job, she'll be paying almost $3,000 a month for child care -- a hefty portion of her take-home pay.
Bradley-Jackson says she can't afford to stay at home full time and, besides, she wants to work. She'd like the Alberta government to at least match the monthly $100-per-child federal child-care benefit. "I want what was promised ... some 'Alberta Advantage'," she said. "I haven't seen it."
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