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Bank partners with Kids and Company, a national quality day care provider, to provide emergency Back-up Child Care for employees with children.

- Studies consistently show the inability to balance work and family is linked to reduced work performance, greater stress, poor morale and higher employee turnover.

- Only 20 per cent of young Canadian children today have access to a regulated day care space; long waiting lists are the rule in most communities.

- An estimated 45% of working parents miss at least one day of work every six months due to child care breakdowns.

- Canadians spend an average of 10 per cent of disposable income on food

- With heightened retail competition, consumers are likely to face somewhat lower food costs in 2012

- BMO study finds 86 per cent of consumers believe, despite recent price increases, it is important to purchase food products made in Canada

Canadian couples not discussing key retirement planning details

- More than half of Canadian couples have not discussed their desired retirement lifestyle, when or where to retire or the amount of money they'll need

- Almost one-third do not have detailed insight into how much their partner has saved for retirement

- For Canadian couples retirement planning is more stressful than Valentine's Day

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