Category: Misc.

2025 April – video – Kids First – “‘Mature Minors?’ BC Infants Act & Federal Policies”

Posted by on in Mature minor consent & Infants Act, Misc.

This presentation addresses the radical changes to parent-child rights in consent and health care that got its start in BC in the 1970s. The powerpoint below has the URLs/sources. (There were some tech problems at the event.) Download KF 2025…

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

Posted by on in 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…

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

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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

Kids First Complaint and BC Attorney General response re: so-called “mature minor consent” in section 17 of BC Infants Act to medical treatment:- this violates Charter rights of parents and children- the government’s aggressive communications campaign informing minors they can hide and lie about their health care to their parents also violates the Charter

Posted by on in COVID-19, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Mature minor consent & Infants Act, Misc., Parents’ and Children’s Rights

2021 May - email to BC government, Dr Bonny Henry, & health care officials requesting suspension of the Infants Act and government communications campaign targeting minors with message that violates Charter rights of parents and children To 'health care providers',…

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Residential Schools Became Child Protection Services Says Head of Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Posted by on in Child Protection Services, First Nations, Misc.

2018 October 27. Canadian Press - (web news article): "Residential school ‘monster’ now lives in child-welfare system: senator: Sen. Murray Sinclair said there are more children in Canada’s child-welfare system today than there were at the height of residential schools" For…

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Separating Children From Parents Has Been a Strategy of Canadian Politicians Since Before Confederation

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Education & parent-child rights, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, First Nations, Misc., Power imbalance between parents & state

2021 June. National Post - (web news article): "The Canadians who thought Residential Schools were a good idea"For KF archive copy of news article see here Note: Edgerton Ryerson was the 'father' of not only the Residential School system but…

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