Tag: Helen Ward

What is daycare and all day kindergarten really like?

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc.

June 2019: What is daycare and all day kindergarten really like for children and staff? Listening to an Early Childhood Educator's Eye Witness Account of All-day Kindergarten Pilot Project: June 2019. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada -…

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

Posted by on in Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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

Posted by on in Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Daycare discrimination legal challenge, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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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Early Development Instrument (EDI): Not everyone accepts it as reliable “evidence” (broken link)

Posted by on in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Read peer-reviewed journal articles critiquing the EDI. To view the complete copywrite-protected articles please email info@kidsfirstcanada.org The Critique “The Early Development Index and children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds” Published in the journal: Early Years: An International Journal of…

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Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward

Posted by on in International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the "Gender Equity Rankings" report by the World Economic Forum (gender equity is not about women's empowerment), HELP's Dr Paul Kershaw, and BC's $10/day daycare push