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More Evidence That Child Protection Service Staff Abuse, Neglect, and Pose a Serious Risk to Children

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July 15, 2020. CBC News - article: "Province admits harm in multimillion-dollar settlement with more than 100 victims of B.C. social worker: Proposed class action settlement would cover 102 victims of Robert Riley Saunders, could cost province $15M" Vulnerable children's…

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Process for Child Protection Cases – BC

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This manual details the legal processes used by MCFD and advises lawyers and parents: Sept 1, 2019. Law Society of British Columbia - (PDF) - "Practice Checklists Manual: Child, Family and Community Service Act" For original link see here (PDF)…

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Top Economist Daycare Researcher Advising Prime Minister May Counter Daycare Lobby Disinformation

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UBC economics professor,  Dr Kevin Milligan is now a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister's Privy Council Office until the end of 2020 on the economic recovery from COVID.June 15, 2020 - blog post by UBC economist Kevin Milligan  -…

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Daycare Lobby Pushes For More Money Using COVID Recovery as Pretext to Fund Doomed Industry

Posted by on in COVID-19, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Daycare has always caused serious infection risks for children and their families according to the peer reviewed research. Now COVID-19 causes fear in parents and staff, dramatically reducing attendance as well as labour supply. Governments have established 'safety' protocols for…

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KF FAQ

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Is Kids First “Anti-Child Care”? NO. Kids First is adamantly is favour of the care and learning of children. We value it so highly that most of those involved with Kids First forego tens of thousands of dollars of career…

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CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos – “Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis”

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June 24, 2020 - CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos - by Ken Boessenkool organizer with Liberal and Conservative parties and Jennifer Robson Carlton University professor and policy advisor - "Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis"https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/boessenkool-robson-%E2%80%93-thoughts-forestalling-coming-childcare-crisis Or see PDF here…

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“National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery”, says Martha Friendly

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June 19, 2020 - CBC  radio The Sunday Edition - interview with a top daycare lobbyist - "National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery", says Martha Friendly: We don't know what the fall out will be…

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School Under COVID

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June 15, 2020 - Financial Times - web article - "A warning from South Korea: the ‘fantasy’ of returning to normal life". Masked students boxed in by plastic all day forbidden from talking to friends

BC Court of Appeal Will Hear The ‘Bus Dad’ Case Thursday June 11: 10am – 4pm

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KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA http://www.kidsfirstcanada.orginfo@kidsfirstcanada.org 604-291-0088MEDIA ADVISORYBC COURT OF APPEAL WILL HEAR THE 'BUS DAD' CASE THURSDAY JUNE 11 10 AM - 4PM Kids First Parent Association of Canada welcomes media and the public to attend the BC…

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