A group of parents, caregivers and babies gathered at Vancouver City Hall on Tuesday morning to protest the lack of transparency concerning proposed cuts and fee increases.

This coincided with Vancouver City Council voting on the proposed Zero Means Zero 2026 budget.

“We’re here today because of the proposed cuts, which affect all of us in many ways, but namely through the removal of change tables and menstrual products in our bathroom washrooms,” Cheryl Noon said, who attended the protest along with her baby, Finley. “It just makes it a lot harder to be a parent in the city.

“It’s a proposal in the budget, because they have to cut so much money from the different facilities and maintenance that they’ve got. And so they’ve said that they will be removing change tables in high-vandalis

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