Author: kidsfirstcanada

Parents Association Of Canada

Kids First on CKNW with Christie Clark on all-day schooling (broken link)

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Kids First on CKNW with Christie Clark (broken link) on all-day schooling for ages 3-5. BCTF opposed to schooling for ages 3-4. Go to Wednesday July 9, 12 pm, and go to 37 minute mark. Note: HELP, which leads the…

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July 2011 Maclean’s Magazine article with comments: “Is subsidized daycare bad for kids?

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quebec

July 2011 Maclean’s Magazine article with comments (web): “Is subsidized daycare bad for kids? A surprising new study says Quebec’s $7-a-day daycare is leaving children worse off (broken link)“ A study referred to in Maclean’s: How Does Early Childhood Care…

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Population Data BC

Posted by on in Misc., Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Population Data BC provides some information on BC's data mining mega-project "designed to capture the power of linkable, longitudinal data, and avoid the inefficiencies associated with project-by-project data linkage." Perhaps the "inefficiencies" they refer to are things like informed consent.…

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Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics

Posted by on in Government Submissions, Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board—Jan 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - official complaint: (download PDF here)Feb 15 2011 reply from UBC’s Behavioural Research Ethics Board to complaint regarding…

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From the Gordon Neufeld Institute:

Posted by on in Attachment, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time

Neufeld on the Vancouver riots:2011. Gordon Neufeld. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Uncovering the Roots of Delinquency" Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing:2011. Deborah MacNamara. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Making Sense of the Senseless" Children, Teens and Technology (broken link)

Swedish intolerance in child care

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

May 15, 2011. The Family Campaign Foundation of Sweden - media release (PDF): "Swedish intolerance in child care"

Swedes opposing Swedish daycare and family policy:

Posted by on in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

Swedes opposing Swedish daycare and family policy: April 1989. Jan-Ola Gustafsson. - presentation transcript (PDF): "On daycarism in Sweden"1989. Katarina Runske. - speech (PDF): "Speech by Mrs Katarina Runske 1989"1994. Katarina Runske. - speech (PDF): Speech by Mrs Katarina Runske-Norén…

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