International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ) – Kids First Parent Association of Canada

2024 May – video – RH Media Standing for Children – interview – “Your Privacy at Risk: The dangers of government surveillance”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 20, 2024December 16, 2024in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Without consent, UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) data mines kids and families through 'surveys' done at schools from kindergarten to high school, and UBC's Population Data BC stores & sells the private data of all BC residents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FOh_VNeno&list=UULFhGC_IDzVUt8rfiIFPFHkNA&index=27 Full…

GENDER EQUITY: What is it? World Economic Forum Gender Equity Rankings

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 23, 2024in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

The WEF is made up of the highest-profit multibillion-dollar corporations. The WEF is a big promoter of "gender equity". (Gender equity has displaced "women's equality" and "women's liberation"). The WEF explains that "gender equity" is not about "empowering women", it's…

URGENT: Take action against data mining mega-project in schools

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 22, 2024in Education & parent-child rights, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

2024 February - video - Kids First - "Kick Big Brother Out of School - Sperm to Worm Data Mining in Canada" February to June is data mining season in schools across Canada. Through lengthy social science questionnaires and use…

The World Bank wants all fathers & mothers in full-time jobs, all kids in full-time daycare

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 25, 2024in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/874111602004483025/pdf/Child-Care-Markets-Parental-Labor-Supply-and-Child-Development.pdf 2020 October - World Bank - non-peer-reviewed paper: "Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development"Download

Conflict of G7 Gender Equity Interest? (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 5, 2018May 22, 2020in International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

June 2018: Conflict of G7 Gender Equity Interest? Why is motherhood unmentionable? Canada's G7 Gender Equity Council wants more money for daycare. Maya Roy, CEO of Canada's YWCA is on the Council. The Y is the biggest provider of daycare…

Defamililialization: Essay by Helen Ward

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 1, 2015May 18, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

Nov 2015: "Ever Heard of Defamilialization? What it is, Who Created it, How It Affects Our lives". This research essay by Kids First President, Helen Ward, exposes defamilialism, the ideology that has led to a massive global policy shift, driven…

Daycare Promoted by Elite Feminists in Bed with Neo-Liberals and Neo-Conservatives (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 10, 2013May 15, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

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,…

Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2013May 13, 2020in International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the "Gender Equity Rankings" report by the World Economic Forum (gender equity is not about women's empowerment), HELP's Dr Paul Kershaw, and BC's $10/day daycare push

2012: World Economic Forum “The Gender Gap Report”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 1, 2012May 13, 2020in International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Find below the "Gender Gap Report" Presented at the 2012 World Economic Forum WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012Download

World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 25, 2011June 1, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

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.

Sept 14 2011: Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 15, 2011May 30, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

September, 14 2011. The Telegraph - article (web): Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds

Swedish intolerance in child care

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 26, 2011June 29, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

May 15, 2011. The Family Campaign Foundation of Sweden - media release (PDF): "Swedish intolerance in child care"

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 20, 2010June 1, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations (broken link). It pushed “universal preschool” (broken link) in California. A new book, Soldiers of Reason: the…

More organizations & academics misrepresenting Dr Heckman on the economic benefits of daycare, all day kindergarten, preschool (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 25, 2010June 2, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Council on Early Child Development (founded by F Mustard, HELP’s C Hertzman President)World BankOECDFraser Mustard (broken link), Chair in Childhood Development at Alberta Children’s HospitalMisleading out of context quote (broken link):“Early childhood investments of high quality have lasting effects…. We…

OECD Statistics on enrollment in daycare, preschool, kindergarten (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 15, 2010June 16, 2020in Enrollment statistics, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

OECD Statistics on enrollment in daycare, preschool, kindergarten (broken link)