Dec 20, 2005. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - res & com (PDF): "Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”
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Media Release December 12th, 2005
DAYCARE and "BEER-GATE": ACCOUNTABILITY, HATE and LIESKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Sunday on CBC's political panel, Scott Reid, strategist and top adviser for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by…
We Need a Moratorium on Paul Martin’s National Childcare Program
With Sweden's vaunted universal daycare system showing such serious cracks that both its own Education Ministry has criticized it and a growing grass roots movement in that country has formed to oppose it, we have the perfect opportunity to learn…
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Reality Check: Misleading BC Daycare Info Corrected. Read this August 2005 report in pdf format.
Reality Check: Misleading BC Daycare Info Corrected. Read this August 2005 report in pdf format.
Does Daycare Lower ‘Child Poverty’ and Get Mums into Jobs? Quebec Experiment Results: No
Data from "ECEC 2004" published by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit at the University of Torontohttp://www.childcarecanada.org/ECEC2004/index.html#tocQUEBEC Regulated daycare expenditure: $1.56 billion."Spaces" are available for only 29.9% of kids age 0-12. (Quebec would have to triple expenses to $4.5 billion…
Read More Does Daycare Lower ‘Child Poverty’ and Get Mums into Jobs? Quebec Experiment Results: No
Daycare staff:child ratios & “quality”: bad and getting worse (broken link)
Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 3 (July 21, 2005) The Federal Government is pushing the provinces to sign on to their national daycare funding agreement. Some spin doctorate has come up with the acronym "QUAD" : Quality, Universality, Accountability,…
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“Appropriate” Staff:Child Ratios in “Quality” Daycare: A Politically Sensitive Topic (broken link)
Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 2 (July 18, 2005) By Helen Ward, President, Kids First Parent Association of Canada © The tax-funded daycare lobby publicly admit quality in daycare is bad: Most government-regulated child care in Canada "is of…
Swedish Government Report Critiques Daycare Conditions: Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 1 (broken link)
(July 15, 2005) Swedish Government Report Critiques Daycare Conditions By Helen Ward, President, Kids First Parent Association of Canada © Canadian daycare advocates hold Swedish daycare to be a model for Canada. The pro-corporate Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation…
Kids First Guest Blog (July 11, 2005)
Motherlove, crime and addiction: lessons learned from lab rats By Chella Turnbull © Crime in urban North America has taken on a new character lately. The elderly, the helpless, and charities are now the new targets. People in Vancouver were…
GREETINGS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
From: KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.kidsfirstcanada.org The issue of child care is attracting a great deal of attention as Parliament debates the proposed Budget and its proposed National Child Care plan. Across Canada people are outraged that Hon. Ken…
