Category: Children’s Well-Being

UBC’s funding of HELP and daycare lobby: Clyde Hertzman over $212,000 from UBC alone (broken link)

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

UBC compensation = expenses to leading all-day Kindergarten and daycare promoters*Clyde Hertzman—Executive Director of HELP, also works for the World BankHERTZMAN CLYDE$212,497 + $15,163 expenses*Paul Kershaw—#2 at HELP, leading media promoter of all day Kindergarten until Aug 2010 when he…

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March 27, 2020 e-mail letter reply from BC Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen

Posted by on in COVID-19, Misc.

Message from Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care FromMCF Info MCF:EXToinfo@kidsfirstcanada.orgDate2020-03-27 10:19 Message Body VIA E-MAIL Ref:  248337 Helen Ward E-mail: info@kidsfirstcanada.org Dear Helen Ward: Thank you for reaching out with your questions about child care in the…

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Should We Trust Google Apps?

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC

January 2019 - GOOGLE APPS FOR KIDS are accused of: Illegal data collection.Manipulating children into in-app purchases.Ads for gambling and alcohol.Modeling harmful behavior like cleaning your eyes with sharp objects Sign the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood petitionTell Google: Adopt…

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Canadian Tax Court Affirms Parental Discretion Over Non-Parental Child Care Decisions and Age of Children Home Along

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc.

September 21, 2018. Jamie Golombek, Financial Post - article: Canadian Tax Court Affirms Parental Discretion Over Non-Parental Child Care Decisions and Age of Children Home Along. Non-parental child care expenses incurred so parents can "work" can be deducted for children…

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Parents take BC government to court over tragic death of their toddler son in daycare

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc.

September 18, 2018. Anita Bathe. CBC - article: Parents take BC government to court over tragic death of their toddler son in daycare The case raises government violation of the child's Charter right to security of person. Daycare regulations are…

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