By: Marco Chown Oved Staff Reporter

With playgrounds and classrooms, they look like regulated child-care centres. But none of these Toronto daycares are licensed or inspected. How is a parent supposed to know?

With its bright blue façade and prominent sign on Broadview Ave., Mini Bluebird Montessori looks like many of the licensed child-care centres in Toronto — with one major difference.

Bluebird operates in a legal loophole, allowing it to avoid dozens of rules that limit staff-child ratios, mandate play space, govern food preparation and require annual inspections... READ MORE...