2021 March - Kids First letter regarding illegal treatment of family of child with Downs Syndrome to BC Ministry of Child and Family Development child protection services, Vancouver Police Department, Vancouver School Board. (PDF) KIDS FIRST NOTE: following receipt of…
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Long-Standing Daycare Lobbyist Error Corrected
May 5, 2021 - Kids First submitted this correction (PDF) to two different articles in the Toronto Star regarding incorrect statements that: 1. Leading daycare lobbyist, Martha Friendly's lobby group, the Childcare Resource and Reference Unity, is at the University…
Fund The Child, Not System Spaces
Daycare Lobby Power Grab History: Toronto Star Daycare Reporter Describes How Canada’s Daycare Lobby Legacy Feminists Got Power by Getting in Bed With the Business Elite Neo-lib/Cons, “The Boys”, “The Suits” at RBC, the World Bank and the OCED
2005. Laurie Monsabraaten. Toronto Star - (news article): "The 'Tiny Tot' brigade; The daycare lobby believed it might actually for the first time in 30 years taste victory a publicly funded, national child-care program. But defeat seems to be making…
2021 Federal Budget: $30 Billion More Over 6 yrs For Non-Parental Institutional Child Care – Government Attack On the Right of Children, Women, Parents
The top priority in the April 2021 federal budget was more institutional child care and coercing all mothers into full time jobs. On top of additional massive funding, $30 billion more over 6 years was offered including a much expanded…
Federal Government Daycare Funding: Junk Science, Discrimination, Harming Children to Build GDP
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Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward
WSJ – “A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing”
1998 (posted 2021 March). Andrew Peyton Thomas. Wall Street Journal - (article): "A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing". PDF excerpt copy for reference Edward Zigler, co-founder of US Head Start program, called daycare centres "PSYCHOLOGICAL THALIDOMIDE"The research cited in this…
Policy Shorts & Sound Bites For Child Care and Family
March 2021. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - (PDF doc): "Policy Shorts & Sound Bites For Child Care and Family" Polict Shorts & Sounds Bites For CHild Care and FamilyMarch 2021Note: ELCC = early learning and child care ENDING…
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Canada & England’s Top Banker Says The GDP Is An Inadequate Measure
March 2021. Mark Carney. CBC radio/BBC – (lecture): “BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Three“ . Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, says that the GDP is inadequate to measure what we value…
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BBC article – “Is the Western way of raising kids weird?”
2021 February. Kelly Oakes. BBC - (news web article): "Is the Western way of raising kids weird?"Expectations for sleep, togetherness, bed time, independence are different in different cultures. The key to thinking outside the Western box might be to remember…
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KF Media Release: Indigenous teen denied addiction treatment by government agencies and police
KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.KidsFirstCanada.org 604-291-0088 info@KidsFirstCanada.org Media release - 440 words Indigenous teen denied addiction treatment by government agencies and police Burnaby, BC - February 11, 2021 - A mother is pleading with BC government agencies and police…
2021 February – Video interview of BC mother battling government agencies and police who refuse to allow her to access health care for her minor son who is at extreme risk due to drug addiction.
Feb 10, 2021. Mother and H. Ward. Youtube - (web video): "Interview with mother battling BC government agencies to get medical treatment for addicted teen" Kids First President Helen Ward has been assisting the family and personally witnessed the behaviour…
A leading Canadian economist, Dr Michael Baker of the University of Toronto, special lecture on proposed Universal Child Care – pros and cons
INTRO TO DR BAKER AT 11:25 - listen to questions alsoDecember 18, 2020. Cate MacLeod. University of Toronto - (web article and video): "Video | A Universal Child Care Strategy: The View From Economics | The 2020 Morley Gunderson Lecture…
Daycare Lobby Fuzzy Numbers Noted
2020 December. Jack M. Mintz. Financial Post - (web op-ed): "Daycare is no Laffer matter: The public should be skeptical of stories, even ones garbed in sophisticated economic analysis, that subsidies will pay for themselves" KF archive PDF copy here Kids…