Kid First Presentation to Federal Finance Committee 2005—Transcript
Category: Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization
Daycare Dis-information Buster: Creating False Impressions with “Child Care” Words and Numbers
Helen WardKids First Parent Association of Canada The daycare lobby has created the impression that most children are in daycare most of the time. A game with the meaning of "child care" is why many believe that 50 % or…
Corporate Right World Bankers Lobbying for Daycare—Speech
Royal Bank of Canada Vice President Charlie Coffey speaks of the "business imperative" in "Early Child Development," which means daycare.Speech text at: http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20050928coffey.htmlVideo of speech at: http://www1.worldbank.org/hdnetwork/External/cy/ccoffey.htm We agree that care and learning and development are good for children, but…
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Letter to the Editor Re: Dis-information in Article by Top Daycare Lobbyist, Martha Friendly
Helen Ward, National PresidentKids First Parent Association of Canada4819 Albert St.Burnaby, BC604-291-0088www.kidsfirstcanada.orginfo@kidsfirstcanada.org Dear Editor: Martha Friendly, head of the fully SDC-funded Childcare Resource and Research Unit, spins disinformation in her article. She does not mention that the research consistently shows…
Daycare, Low Income and the Left
Jan. 20, 2006by Helen WardKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Daycare has become a top election issue for all parties. The possibility that the daycare agreements will be terminated brings on the accusation that this will hurt low-income families, like…
Sept 29 Media Release: Daycare Mis-Information Exposed
Sept 29 Media Release (download PDF): Daycare Mis-Information Exposed
Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense
Child Rearing by the State: The “Integration” Agenda to Merge Daycare and School Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense The OECD’s idea of All-Day Kindergarten for ages 3-5 was established in Canada with the secretive strategizing…
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GREETINGS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
From: KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.kidsfirstcanada.org The issue of child care is attracting a great deal of attention as Parliament debates the proposed Budget and its proposed National Child Care plan. Across Canada people are outraged that Hon. Ken…
Daycare Costs
Data on the cost of the Quebec system has always shown that most children are not in the system, that cost are very high, and that increased taxes paid by mothers spending more time at jobs do not come near…
The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey
The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey: A paper (download PDF here) by Dr Jay Belsky, a leading researcher with the US NICHD who is now at the Birkbeck University of London.