Commentary

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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Legal Warning To Child Protection Service, Police and Schools: Stop Illegal Violation of Rights of Child With Downs Syndrome and Her Parents

Posted by on in Child Protection Services, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Parents’ and Children’s Rights

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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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

Posted by on in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…

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2021 Federal Budget: $30 Billion More Over 6 yrs For Non-Parental Institutional Child Care – Government Attack On the Right of Children, Women, Parents

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

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…

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