Category: Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care

“National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery”, says Martha Friendly

Posted by on in COVID-19, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 19, 2020 - CBC  radio The Sunday Edition - interview with a top daycare lobbyist - "National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery", says Martha Friendly: We don't know what the fall out will be…

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BC Court of Appeal Will Hear The ‘Bus Dad’ Case Thursday June 11: 10am – 4pm

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KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA http://www.kidsfirstcanada.orginfo@kidsfirstcanada.org 604-291-0088MEDIA ADVISORYBC COURT OF APPEAL WILL HEAR THE 'BUS DAD' CASE THURSDAY JUNE 11 10 AM - 4PM Kids First Parent Association of Canada welcomes media and the public to attend the BC…

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BC Government ‘Universal’ Daycare Prototype Increases Discrimination Vs. Children &Parents

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

$0 per child in parental child care$24,000++ per 'space' for non-parental 'prototype' daycareparents not considered to be child care workersgovernment admits inadequate quality daycare will take $100++million to improve November 9, 2018. B.C. Ministry of Children and Family - news…

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Worsening Government Discrimination Against Parents an Children

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July 2018 - Worsening Government Discrimination Against Parents an Children Federal-provincial Early Learning and Child Care agreements exclude parental child care from any funding. The agreements for funding to each province and territory specify that "areas of investment" be limited…

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Media Release: International Women’s Day complaint to federal government: end discrimination against mothers caring for their kids

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MEDIA RELEASE Burnaby, BC - March 8, 2018 - Kids First Parent Association of Canada is marking International Women's Day by submitting a formal complaint to the federal government regarding discrimination. A letter submitted today outlines discrimination against both mothers…

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March 8, 2018 – International Women's Day

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Our government thinks maternal child care is bad for women and children and the economy. Our leaders want to "GET MOTHERS BACK TO WORK" and get our children into full time LICENSED DAYCARE so we can be "PRODUCTIVE" in the…

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