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Breastfeeding: Upholding the World Health Organization’s Code in Canada (broken link)

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The World Health Organization, the Canadian government, and the Province of BC recommend 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding (no other food, drink or pacifiers) and continued breast feeding for at least 2 years.Supporting breastfeeding is one aspect of Kids First…

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The OECD and Canada's Daycare Lobby: Ties Denied (broken link)

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranked Canada last of 14 countries in spending on early learning and child care. Its says of its generally negative review of Canada: "We trust… that our external perspective, based on many…

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OECD Underestimated Early Education Funding—Only Counted Spending on Kindergarten

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OECD Underestimated Early Education Funding—Only Counted Spending on Kindergarten Feb 20, 2008: “Canada Lagging in Early Education Funding” (cat link) Response:March 12th, 2008. Letter in Hill Times Embassy Magazine, (cat link) in response to original article published Feb

Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quality & staff-child ratios, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

[Dr. Goelman, daycare lobbyist, had an article in the Vancouver Sun, Monday April 24, 2006. This response was not published by the Sun.] Hillel Goelman and Clyde Hertzman run H.E.L.P. at UBC and are leading daycare promoters. Recently they attacked…

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Media Release April 24th, 2006: “Parent Group Say Government Must Cut Funding to Daycare Lobby Now”

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PARENT GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST CUT FUNDING TO DAYCARE LOBBY NOWKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Parents' groups are asking the government to commit to quickly terminating public funding for daycare lobby groups.Helen Ward, President of Kids First Parent Association…

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Media Release March 2th, 2005: “Kids First Response to Federal Budget & Child Care Funding”

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

MEDIA RELEASERESPONSE TO THE BUDGET - CHILD CARE PROPOSALKIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA604-291-0088 Kids First Parent Association of Canada is calling for a budget amendment that will uphold the Constitution when it come to child care policy. All are…

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Media release February 9, 2005: “Message to Fed-Prov Territorial Meeting: Legal Challenge Sought to Daycare Discrimination”

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Joint Media Release February 9th, 2005 JOINT MEDIA RELEASE From: Kids First Parent Association of Canada and Citizens in Favour of Equal Government Childcare Subsidies For all Children / Les Citonyen(ne)s en Faveur de L'equite Fiscale des Subventions Pour Soins…

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Mum professor seeking input from “at-home” parents for book

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Stay-at-Home-Parent Your insight and experiences are needed to help others!I am a mother of two boys and college professor who recently made the decision to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home parent. The decision was surprisingly hard…

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