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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Bus Dad, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Power imbalance between parents & state

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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Kids First response to thestar.com article, “Lack of child care costing Canada: report”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Uncategorized

RE: March 6, 2011. The Star - article (web): "Lack of child care costing Canada: report" Dear Editor: Every mother is a working mother. Statistics about mothers' employment are falsely used as a proxy measure for "work" and for daycare…

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March 29, 2011 CBC radio BC “On the Coast” on Liberal Daycare promise

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

March 29, 2011 CBC radio BC “On the Coast” on Liberal Daycare promise (broken link) (NOTE: CBC’s biased coverage: “On the Coast” called Andrea Mrozek of IMFC to participate but wanted a BC voice so she gave them given Helen…

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March 8, 2011 – 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Commentary: (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

March 8, 2011 – 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Commentary: Happy International Women’s Day by Kids FirstBeverly Smith (in Liberal MP Carolyn Bennet’s Blog) (broken link)National Post: Feminism’s Second Wave Hangover (broken link) by Tasha KheiriddinOttawa Citizen: Why the…

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Media release Feb 23, 2011: Police called to stop leaflet at daycare public forum

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Uncategorized

Feb 23, 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - leaflet (PDF): Dr Fraser Mustard and Colleagues in Their Own Words Police called to prevent distribution of leaflet at public forum held on public property February 23, 2011 (Burnaby)—On February…

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Sarah Godoy responds to MacLeans’ Jan 2011 anti-breastfeeding article

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon in Breastfeeding, Uncategorized

Re: Jan 2011. Macleans - article: “Heat Up the Bottle? Book says breastfeeding is overrated” (broken link) There is a major problem with Wolf's argument here. In the beginning of the interview, she says that evidence shows that breastfed babies…

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