Daycare has always caused serious infection risks for children and their families according to the peer reviewed research. Now COVID-19 causes fear in parents and staff, dramatically reducing attendance as well as labour supply. Governments have established 'safety' protocols for…
Category: Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care
CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos – “Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis”
June 24, 2020 - CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos - by Ken Boessenkool organizer with Liberal and Conservative parties and Jennifer Robson Carlton University professor and policy advisor - "Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis"https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/boessenkool-robson-%E2%80%93-thoughts-forestalling-coming-childcare-crisis Or see PDF here…
“National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery”, says Martha Friendly
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…
BC Court of Appeal Will Hear The ‘Bus Dad’ Case Thursday June 11: 10am – 4pm
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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Open Letter to the PM and Premiers: Close Daycares Now to Reduce Contagion
March 18, 2020. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - Media Release: OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND PREMIERS: CLOSE DAYCARES NOW TO REDUCE CONTAGION (Download media release PDF here)
Scottish families defeat Orwellian state intervention mega-project
FAMILY VS STATE: Scottish families defeat Orwellian state intervention mega-project. September 19, 2019. BBC - article: "Named person scheme scrapped by Scottish government"
BC Government ‘Universal’ Daycare Prototype Increases Discrimination Vs. Children &Parents
$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
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
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…
March 8, 2018 – International Women's Day
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…
Child Care Speech In BC Legislature
Child care speech in BC Legislature by MLA Laurie Throness: Does a political party finally recognize that child care is the care of a child? February 26, 2018 Legislative Assembly Of British Columbia - record. Draft (blues) Hansard record Mar.…
Fund Child Care, Not Daycare Spaces
December 20, 2017 Toronto Star editorial by Kids First President, Helen Ward: Fund child care, not daycare spaces
Funding Families Not "Spaces"
March 27, 2017: National Post article by Kids First President, Helen Ward, on Federal Budget promise of more daycare funding. Funding families not "spaces" is fair and better for children's well-being.
With Feminism Like This Who Needs Patriarchy?
Response to CBC's The House biased coverage of "child care" in federal budget: March 3, 2018. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter to CBC: Download PDF here
Misaligned Budget
March 27, 2017. Helen Ward. National Post - op-ed: "Helen Ward: The new Liberal budget will send money for 'children' right to the wealthy and the bureaucrats" (Note: this was written in response to the 2017 budget)