Category: Parents’ and Children’s Rights

2024 April – Kids First commentary – “Parents need a divorce, not a school lunch program”

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Power imbalance between parents & state

Rather than funding families themselves, government wants parents in a forced marriage to the state by funding government services like school food. KF 2024 April 750 words We need divorce not school lunchesDownload

2024 May – video – RH Media Standing for Children – interview – “Your Privacy at Risk: The dangers of government surveillance”

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Without consent, UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) data mines kids and families through 'surveys' done at schools from kindergarten to high school, and UBC's Population Data BC stores & sells the private data of all BC residents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FOh_VNeno&list=UULFhGC_IDzVUt8rfiIFPFHkNA&index=27 Full…

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Legal action against daycare discrimination

Posted by on in Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge

Complaint to British Columbia government October 4, 2019: Email from British Columbia governmentAugust 22, 2019: Email to BC governmentJuly 24, 2019: Email from BC governmentJuly 3, 2019: Email to BC government Complaint to Canadian Human Rights Commission about federal government…

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URGENT: Take action against data mining mega-project in schools

Posted by on in Education & parent-child rights, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

2024 February - video - Kids First - "Kick Big Brother Out of School - Sperm to Worm Data Mining in Canada"  February to June is data mining season in schools across Canada. Through lengthy social science questionnaires and use…

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2024 February – Kids First Video – “Parental Rights are for Real – Lessons from History and Law”

Posted by on in Education & parent-child rights

"There's no such thing as parental rights in Canada!" a politician recently declared, voicing out loud what many in academia, government and its agencies secretly believe, perpetuating the same discriminatory thinking that unleashed the Residential Schools and the resulting on-going…

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“Child protection services”: Two indigenous children in “house of horrors” run by BC government

Posted by on in Child Protection Services

2023 July - news article & video - Global News - "Inquiry needed into horrific BC foster parents' case, says lawyer. https://globalnews.ca/news/9811193/inquiry-horrific-foster-parents-case-lawyer/ IS IT TIME TO DISMANTLE "CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES"? 2023 October - opinion - Vancouver Sun - More calls…

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Parent-child rights in international human rights law

Posted by on in Education & parent-child rights

Catholic Civil Rights League - Parental authority in international law These two documents bring together the international human-rights agreements related to parental authority and children's rights in education. Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in their Children's Education This…

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