The Fund the Child Coalition Canada-Wide Event for International Children’s Day was held on Nov 19-21. Read about our formal Complaint to the United Nations.Speaking Notes for the Fund the Child Press Conference (download PDF)
Category: Policy with promise
Hutchinson v. BC : BC Human Rights Tribunal rejects Ministry of Health discrimination against hiring family as care providers
Hutchinson v. BC (broken link): BC Human Rights Tribunal rejects Ministry of Health discrimination against hiring family as care providers. This case has implications for funding of other forms of care including child care.
We Need a Moratorium on Paul Martin’s National Childcare Program
With Sweden's vaunted universal daycare system showing such serious cracks that both its own Education Ministry has criticized it and a growing grass roots movement in that country has formed to oppose it, we have the perfect opportunity to learn…
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Premier advances N.B. position on federal gas tax return, child-care funding
Office of the Premier—May 30, 2005SAINT JOHN (CNB)—Premier Bernard Lord promoted the province's position on federal child-care funding and the gas tax return to New Brunswick during his speech to the Kennebecasis Valley Chamber of Commerce tonight. Lord said the…
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Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870
No Brekky in Bed Mothers' Day social activist roots: It started in the US in 1858 when Anna Jarvis organized Mothers' Work Days to improve sanitation in the Appalachians.Julia Ward Howe (who also wrote lyrics for "The Battle Hymn of…
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