The Times Colonist reports that UVic has decided to forgo outsourcing to a for-profit child care chain, reporting:

Big-box daycare will not be coming to the University of Victoria in the forseeable future, the UVic board of governors decided this week.

The university was considering asking Kids and Company– a for-profit company with centres across Canada — to open a centre at UVic to help ease the shortage of child-care spaces.

But the proposal drew protests from organizations such as the UVic Childcare Action Group and the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C., who said corporate child-care chains have no place at UVic.