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>> Like many new mothers in vancouver, angeles says it was no easy task of securing a daycare spot for her baby. >> Based on the other moms I know, general knowledge is that daycare's are rare and hard to come by. >> We probably put our name down on 50 daycare's and paid all of the registration fees. >> You feel like you've won the lottery in vancouver when you find a daycare. At such a challenge. >> Thanks to a partnership between the city, the vancouver school board, and marvel neighbourhood has, these parents were able to find peace of mind that a new affordable child care facility in south vancouver. >> We recognize it's one of our city's most underserved neighbourhoods for children and families. We'll begin to see more vancouver families benefit from these important investments. >> This facility is built on top of the david lloyd george elementary school, complete with an outdoor playground and many interactive stations for the kids to explore their creativity, a much-needed childcare space in the neighbourhood, it's built to accommodate up to 69 children from infants to five years old. >> The fact that it has such a gorgeous outside space, it looks like it's very child centre, I love the fact that it seems to be focusing on the children and showcasing their interests curiosity. >> I love that it's on a rooftop. It's safe from the community. It's very secure, it's very clean. >> For all parents but especially moms, there's the stress of trying to find safe and reliable childcare is that you can get back to the workforce. >> The city of vancouver promising to more school childcare facilities to be ready for families in 2025. >> The federal government is lending bc ferries some money to buy a handful of new boats. The canada infrastructure bank announced the 75 million-dollar loan which we'll go towards four new zero emission vessels and electric charging infrastructure. That infrastructure is expected to be done by 2027 with electric fairies slated to be used on smaller routes. Bc ferries already says six hybrid electric boats running that they are running on diesel until the charging equipment is up and running. The loan repayment is expected to come from passenger fares and retail revenue. The competitors have been announced from one of the biggest summer events in vancouver. Malaysia, united kingdom, and portugal will be the three teams competing in this year's celebration of light. The annual fireworks competition takes over english bay beach for three days in july with three separate half-hour long fireworks shows from each team. New this year is a drone fireworks show that will take place ahead of each main event. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to show up at the shows which run july 20th, 24th, and july 27th. West vancouver, he made it up to the daytime high of 13. >> 14 for vancouver, I little bit warmer further in land. Tomorrow, we're back to seasonal which is 17 for our daytime high we have sunshine in the forecast. Enjoy it while you can. Winds were fairly steady and casting through today with speak when s. At 4050 kilometres an hour, not quite brick that bruising tomorrow. Here's a look at your outlet. As the sun rises after 5:00 am, stepping outside the door, you will be dealing with a temperature of around 11. Into the afternoon, 17 and more sunshine, especially later in the afternoon and then by the evening and the overnight we will seek god cover build back in and bobby dropping down to 15 degrees. Temperature wise, there's your 17 degrees daytime high for vancouver, richmond, topping out at 17, same in burnaby, langley at 18 degrees and had met us at 19 by and large, fairly stable steady temperatures across the region. There's your sunshine into thursday afternoon followed by cloud cover, scattered showers into friday, more likely to see scattered showers in the morning. Not a whole lot. Maybe one or three millimetres at this point. Winds out of the west tomorrow afternoon, testing between 20 and 40 kilometres an hour, not quite as strong as what we saw today and then for friday, your temperatures dropping below seasonal and we are seeing that active pattern continuing through the weekend and beyond. Sunday looks to be the cooler day of the weekend at 13 degrees for a daytime high energy next week your temperatures are rebounding but we are holding onto that unsettled pattern with periods of rain expected for much of the long-range forecast. >> Not surprising. We expected this. We are seeing this on the ground on a daily basis. >> Reporter: pc receives a

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