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Parents Association Of Canada

New evidence that non-parental child care reduces breastfeeding and increases “risk of overweight at least during infancy.” (broken link)

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

New evidence that non-parental child care reduces breastfeeding and increases “risk of overweight at least during infancy.” Article in UK Telegraph: Putting babies in childcare “makes them fatter” (broken link)

HELP Violates Privacy Protection Practices it Claims to Follow

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

HELP Violates Privacy Protection Practices it Claims to Follow: HELP claims to follow Statistics Canada’s procedures, but unlike HELP, Statistics Canada requires verbal or written parental consent for surveys of parents, children, and children’s teachers. See PDF below of Jan…

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Federal $ for daycare lobby propaganda (eg from HELP) and data-mining (eg the EDI) through HRSDC’s Understanding the Early Years (UEY) (broken link)

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

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) is using federal $ (broken link) to pay and organize "community coalitions" to do "many tasks ranging from facilitating data collection activities; developing community interest and buy-in; strengthening community partnerships and transferring knowledge…

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Burnaby Now article: Does data collection put privacy at risk? (broken link)

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

Burnaby Now article: Does data collection put privacy at risk? (broken link) HELP is the government-funded organization that drives/creates child/family/daycare policy here AND does the mega-dating mining. Family’s addresses are not there but postal codes are and so is everything…

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December 1, 2010 news release—Dietitians of Canada calls for better controls on advertising of food and beverages to children (broken link)

Posted by on in Obesity

December 1, 2010 news release—Dietitians of Canada calls for better controls on advertising of food and beverages to children (broken link). Dietitians of Canada calls for more effective controls on advertising of foods and beverages to children including federal government…

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Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link)

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link). “Post-industrial capitalism has completely destroyed the conditions required for healthy childhood development.” Dec 2010 Democracy Now (US) interview of Dr Gabor Mate by Amy Goodman

Day care statistics from Sweden 2009: 92% age 18 months to 5 years registered in daycare centres

Posted by on in Enrollment statistics, Misc., Sweden

Dear friends, The statistics of the number of children in day care in Sweden have recently been officially updated for 2009. In the concept "day care" both day care centers and child minders are included. The numbers for 2009 are…

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All-day K/daycare promoters say Sweden is their model. But Swedes are saying “There should be a warning label on Swedish Family Policies”

Posted by on in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Sweden

May 25, 2010. Jonas Himmelstrand. Haro - lecture (PDF): "Are the Swedish state family policies delivering?"November 10, 2010. Jonas Himmelstrand. The Mireja Institute - speech transcript (PDF): "Lessons learned from Swedish family policies"Jonas Himmelstrand on YouTube:Nov 7, 2010. Jonas Himmelstrand.…

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