Commentary

Video: What Benefits Children’s Development? What The Top Economist James Heckman Really Says.

Posted by on in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Children's Well-Being, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Parents’ and Children’s Rights, Policy with promise, Quality & staff-child ratios, Welfare reform, workfare, McJobs, Women & Work

February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (youtube video): Interview with Nobel Laureate economist Dr James Heckman - "The Role of Families in Human Flourishing" Original article: February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (article): The…

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Unheard Voices: Discussing  Canada’s National Daycare System – Daycare policy leaves out many or most voices.

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2021 October 14. Cardus - (web video): "Unheard Voices: Discussing  Canada's National Daycare System"Cardus' Unheard Voices series brings more voices in. This panel discussion on the Canada-wide childcare policy features Karen Renkema of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, Julie…

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Kids First Complaint and BC Attorney General response re: so-called “mature minor consent” in section 17 of BC Infants Act to medical treatment:- this violates Charter rights of parents and children- the government’s aggressive communications campaign informing minors they can hide and lie about their health care to their parents also violates the Charter

Posted by on in COVID-19, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Mature minor consent & Infants Act, Misc., Parents’ and Children’s Rights

2021 May - email to BC government, Dr Bonny Henry, & health care officials requesting suspension of the Infants Act and government communications campaign targeting minors with message that violates Charter rights of parents and children To 'health care providers',…

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Residential Schools Became Child Protection Services Says Head of Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Posted by on in Child Protection Services, First Nations, Misc.

2018 October 27. Canadian Press - (web news article): "Residential school ‘monster’ now lives in child-welfare system: senator: Sen. Murray Sinclair said there are more children in Canada’s child-welfare system today than there were at the height of residential schools" For…

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Government Attacks Parental Consent for Kids’ Health Care: “Mature Minors” & BC Infants Act

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Mature minor consent & Infants Act, Parental consent & informed consent, Parental preference, Parents’ and Children’s Rights

2021 June. Kids First - (youtube video): "BC Government Campaign Attacks Parental Consent for Kids' Health Care: "Mature Minors" & BC Infants Act" Parents' legal obligation and right to determine their children's health care is under attack across Canada. The…

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Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward

Posted by on in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Policy with promise

2021 April. Kids First - (Youtube video): "Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward". Child care is the care of a child, whoever does it. Child care is socially essential work, whoever does it. But the…

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Separating Children From Parents Has Been a Strategy of Canadian Politicians Since Before Confederation

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, First Nations, Misc., Power imbalance between parents & state

2021 June. National Post - (web news article): "The Canadians who thought Residential Schools were a good idea"For KF archive copy of news article see here Note: Edgerton Ryerson was the 'father' of not only the Residential School system but…

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Article About Significance of the “Bus Dad Case”: ‘Power Imbalance’

Posted by on in Bus Dad, Child Protection Services, Law, legal cases, formal complaints

2020 October. Frances Rosner. Bar Talk [Canadian Bar Association of BC journal] - (web article): "70K Legal Battle Leads to Finding that The MCFD Made Unauthorized Orders on a Parent" "When parents become involved with the Ministry of Children and…

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BC MCFD Child Protection and RCMP Violate Parents’ and Child’s Rights

Posted by on in Child Protection Services, Parents’ and Children’s Rights, Power imbalance between parents & state

2021 April - audio recording - KF interview of parents of BC child with Downs Syndrome regarding MCFD & RCMP intervention.Helen Ward interviews the parents to ask questions about how the family was treated when a child protection received a…

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Comments On The 1993 Ney Case Against The Infants Act “Medical Consent” Section”

Posted by on in Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Mature minor consent & Infants Act

2020 June. Kids First - legal analysis (PDF): "Comments On The 1993 Ney Case Against The Infants Act "Medical Consent" Section"In 1993 there was a Charter challenge against the Infants Act that failed. The decision was not appealed due to…

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