March 27, 2017. Helen Ward. National Post - op-ed: "Helen Ward: The new Liberal budget will send money for 'children' right to the wealthy and the bureaucrats" (Note: this was written in response to the 2017 budget)
Category: Costs & costs-benefit analysis
Exploiting women through childcare
Aug 10, 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?
What are the dollar costs of a Unidaycare Centre System? (broken link)
Kids First info sheet Costs—Daycare, Preschool, All-Day Kindergarten compiled a few years ago gives actual costs reported by different governments in Quebec, BC, Sweden and US. EXAMPLE: Nearly $16,000/yr for centre operating costs alone for infant care in Quebec in…
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Tax-funded Daycare Lobby (broken links
"Gen Squeeze" (broken link) says its a "lobby" group. It demands $10/day daycare and opposes funding families equitably.Squeeze head, Paul Kershaw is paid over $145,000 (broken link) ($134,753 + $11,431 expenses in 2014) from UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)…
FUND CHILDREN NOT SPACES
April 28, 2015 report by Kids First President, Helen Ward, published by the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada: "Is there really a daycare shortage? - A Toronto case study shows vacancies despite waiting lists and subsidies"PDF: download direct here…
Harper Fiscal Accountability Fail: Billions Omitted in PBO Child Care Report
Kids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Burnaby, BC - April 8, 2015: Kids First Parent Association of Canada says the Harper government lacks fiscal accountability for child care funding and calls on the Parliamentary Budget Office to retract its new…
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Ontario Government Misrepresents All-Day Kindergarten Research (broken links)
Oct 2013 Globe and Mail column: All Day Kindergarten "No Magic Bullet"McMaster University Economist Phillip de Cicca asks, "To me, the question should be, could that money be used in a better way?" November 2013 Macleans magazine article: Full-day kindergarten…
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Fund Children not Space: Over $3,800/yr+++ = Tax Subsidy for Each Daycare Space
fundkids2013Download Outside of fee subsidies for lower/moderate income families, the subsidization of daycare bygovernment is not reported.But data (from the government and from the daycare lobby organization the Childcare Resource andResearch Unit run by Martha Friendly) show that PROVINCIAL funding…
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April 5, 2011: HELP’s Paul Kershaw suggests funding daycare by cutting back grandparents’ medical care such as hip replacements
April 5, 2011: HELP’s Paul Kershaw suggests funding daycare by cutting back grandparents’ medical care such as hip replacements. UBC alone paid Kershaw (2008) $97,321 + $10,009 in expenses. (How about cutting such “scholars'” salaries and distributing the saving to…
April 5, 2011: HELP’s Paul Kershaw suggests funding daycare by cutting back grandparents’ medical care such as hip replacements
April 5, 2011: HELP’s Paul Kershaw suggests funding daycare by cutting back grandparents’ medical care such as hip replacements. UBC alone paid Kershaw (2008) $97,321 + $10,009 in expenses. (How about cutting such “scholars'” salaries and distributing the saving to…
Kathleen Lahey’s article: Bribing women to stay at home
Kathleen Lahey’s article, Bribing women to stay at home (broken link), in the National Post and a reply by Andrea Mrozek, The new feminist demand: high taxes (broken link)
Kathleen Lahey’s article, Bribing women to stay at home
Kathleen Lahey’s article, Bribing women to stay at home, in the National Post and a reply by Andrea Mrozek, The new feminist demand: high taxes
Kids First response to thestar.com article, “Lack of child care costing Canada: report”
RE: March 6, 2011. The Star - article (web): "Lack of child care costing Canada: report" Dear Editor: Every mother is a working mother. Statistics about mothers' employment are falsely used as a proxy measure for "work" and for daycare…
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Dec 2010, Toronto Star—Ontario axes “wrap around” daycare portion of “early learning”
Dec. 15, 2010. Toronto Star - article (web): "Ontario axes “wrap around” daycare portion of “early learning”"
Costs—Daycare, Preschool, All-Day Kindergarten (broken links)
"Measure all costs"2001. Lynn A. Karoly et. al. Rand Corporation - article: "Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of EarlyChildhood Interventions" (follow links to download full report) Full Costs Never Openly Discussed or Grossly Underestimated "I don't have a dollar figure"Dr.…
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