Daycare Lobby Head is a Top Bureaucrat in BC’s Ministry of Children and Family Development

BC's Assistant Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Children and Family Development is Sandra Griffin. She is with the Integrated Quality Assurance Team (broken link).She was: Executive Director of the tax-funded daycare lobby group, the Child Care Federation of CanadaExecutive…

HELP Helping itself to Heckman

Government-Funded Daycare/All-Day K Promoters Lie When they Claim Nobel-Prize Economist Agrees with Them. Daycare and all-day kindergarten promoters including HELP and Charles Pascal & Fraser Mustard all say Nobel Prize Economist Dr James Heckman’s research supports their policy. This is…

Deadline for Submissions on "Kindergarten" Expansion Extended to Monday March 29, 2010 (broken link)

Mar 19, 2010—We have just learned that late last week the Ontario government's Social Policy Committee EXTENDED the DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS on BILL 242 Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 to MARCH 29, 5 PM Ontario time…

Government-Funded Daycare/All-Day K Promoters Lie When they Claim Nobel-Prize Economist Agrees with Them

Ontario government adviser, Charles Pascal, and BC Government agency, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), claim Dr James Heckman, Noble Prize Winner for Economics, supports their goal of universal daycare and all-day and earlier kindergarten. This is actually the opposite of…

Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link)

Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link): Mar 28, 2010 article in The Gazette talks about the Quebec daycare sponsorship scandal. Daycare operators are donating to political parties. In Ontario and BC, how much do the YMCA, CUPE, teachers…

Pascal Adviser from OECD Says State is Responsible for Child-Rearing (broken link)

Whose Children are They?This Power Point presentation tells us where the daycare lobbyists want us to go.It is by OECD/UNESCO/UNCEF top daycare man John Bennett.He lied about Canadian daycare lobbyist Martha Friendly's OECD ties in the National Post (see "The…

Where the All-Day Schooling Agenda Comes from: The "Integration" of School and Child Care in the OECD's "New Order"

Quotes from the OECD's 2001 paper:January 2001. Lenira Haddad. Childcare Resource and Research Unit - research study: "An Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care: A Preliminary Study" (download full PDF here)You can also find it via CRRUs website…

Background documents: Who is pushing all-day schooling for little kids? (broken link)

The OECD, the Integration Network, the World Bank and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) at UBC. 2001 OECD Paper Published by the leading daycare lobby organization, Childcare Resource and Research Unit, run by Martha Friendly in Toronto: January 2001.…

Cuts to BC Community Non-Profit Organizations Serving Children, Families, Handicapped (broken link)

Money goes to all day Kindergarten at the expense of community powered agencies. Agreement between the Ministry of Education and BC Assocaition of Family Resources Programs (broken link) acknowledges tension between Strong Start drop-in programs in school run by the…

Feb 2010 article by Kids First President, Helen Ward, submitted to The Tyee

February 2010. Helen Ward (Kids First President). Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter The Tyee (PDF): It’s Time Social Justice Proponents Took a Closer Look at Child Care Policy: The Ideological Who and Why of All-Day Kindergarten and…