Parent group demands disciplinary action from Ontario Ministry of Education for misrepresenting studies showing negative impact for all-day KindergartenMEDIA RELEASE - time line included belowParent group demands disciplinary action from Ontario Ministry of Education for misrepresenting studies showing negative impact…
Read More Dec 2013, Kids First Media Release: Kindergarten Research Cover-up Scandal
Daycare Promoted by Elite Feminists in Bed with Neo-Liberals and Neo-Conservatives. Articles by Rianne Mahon, leading daycare theorist, from Carleton University in Ottawa: The OECD and the Reconciliation Agenda: Competing Blueprints. Published by Martha Friendly's Childcare Resource & Research Unit,…
October 21 posting at Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome" second-wave feminism critiqued by feminists who honour unwaged family care work: Kids First has long been aware that the elite feminists who dominate our government women's and family policy…
Read More Critical Legal Thinking: "White Feminists Fatigue Syndrome"
October 2013 article in The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it. A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase
Astro-turf Grassroots: How much we pay some top tax-funded child poverty/daycare lobbyists: pay-of-childcare-advocatesDownload In yet another egregious example of tax-funded lobbying for policies that discriminate against parental child care we have the $10/ day daycare "Generation Squeeze" campaign run by Paul…
Paul Kershaw of the tax-funded daycare lobby at the Human Early Learning Partnership is critiqued for his neo-liberalism by a fellow academic in the Feb 2012 Rabble article, Generational conflict: Neo-liberalism's new bait-and-switch ploy
Kids First press release: Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - press release (PDF): Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation—Ontario summertime daycare consultation excludes parents
Discussion Paper “Modernizing Child Care” = put more daycare centres in schools June 26, 2012. Ontario Ministry of Education - discussion paper (PDF): "Modernizing Child Care in Ontario"
World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator (broken link). Use it to “prove” the more you spend, the more you save: $1 produces $2-$17 in savings.
September 19, 2011 HELP propagandist, sociologist Dr Paul Kershaw, has a new 24-part editorial series titled "Think Like a Beaver" in the Vancouver Sun. He is pushing mass tax-funded institutional child care with misleading claims and neo-lib/con ideology. He says…
Newfoundland considering all-day Kindergarten: World Bank institutional child care lobbyist Clyde Hertzman of HELP visited Newfoundland in Feb 2011. The province is following HELP’s established pattern (BC, Ont) of highly orchestrated “consultations” and a highly selective “research” overview. CBC reporters…
Kids First Commentary September 2011. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - commentary (PDF): Fat Stats, Fuzzy Numbers, False Conclusions: A Closer Look at CUPE’s Newfoundland Poll On Daycare/All-Day Kindergarten
Kids First on CKNW with Christie Clark (broken link) on all-day schooling for ages 3-5. BCTF opposed to schooling for ages 3-4. Go to Wednesday July 9, 12 pm, and go to 37 minute mark. Note: HELP, which leads the…
Read More Kids First on CKNW with Christie Clark on all-day schooling (broken link)
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. UBC alone paid Kershaw (2008) $97,321 + $10,009 in expenses. (How about cutting such “scholars'” salaries and distributing the saving to…
