Babies' Day Out

Babies on the loose! Toddlers escaped from a Markham daycare to visit Shopper's Drug Mart.

A daycare in Markham, Ontario has been temporarily shut down after a trio of toddlers managed to escape. The three babies, aged 18-24 months, somehow snuck out of the playground, crossed the parking lot, and entered a drugstore. Staff at Shopper's Drug Mart found them when the boy, still in diapers, got stuck in the automatic door and started to cry. Five other children subsequently escaped through an open gate but didn't quite make it as far. According to reports, three staff members were supervising 11 children at the time of the incident (hey, it's easy to miss 8 of 11 babies slowly crawling away, right?). An investigation by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services also revealed the kids were underfed and that the supervisor was under-qualified (shocker!). The Markham Village Childcare Centre won the Markham Economist and Sun’s reader choice award for best child care in 2009 and 2010.