This presentation addresses the radical changes to parent-child rights in consent and health care that got its start in BC in the 1970s. The powerpoint below has the URLs/sources. (There were some tech problems at the event.) Download KF 2025…
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2024 October - video - National Citizens Inquiry "Are Children Safe in Canada?" testimony by Helen Ward - "How & why the state discriminates against the parent-child relationship & child well-being" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduOvPfW4nY
September 2022. Kids First. Youtube - (video interview): "Child Protection Services Overview"Kids First President Helen Ward gives an overview of child protection service laws, what are some problems with the law, what can happen, children's & parents' rights, and what…
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June 7, 2020. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - audio memo (MP4): "Bus Dad"
"Mature minor consent" in BC's Infants Act violates Charter rights to life, liberty, & security of personTragic overdose death of 16 year old whose doctors shut out parents from medical decisionsTragic overdose death of 15 year old whose parents were…
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March 20, 2018. Beverly Smith. Policy Options - article (web): All child care should be valued and funded Article by former Kids First President, Beverley Smith, in Policy Options, the magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy: All…
July/August 2012: Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward of Kids First: Send in your input and do the poll. Here is an uncut version of the Costco article with references/links (PDF)
June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter (PDF): "Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education"
Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education responding to the “consultation” process. June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter (PDF): Letter to Ontario Minister of Education
Kids First press release: Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - press release (PDF): Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation—Ontario summertime daycare consultation excludes parents
Kids First Commentary September 2011. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - commentary (PDF): Fat Stats, Fuzzy Numbers, False Conclusions: A Closer Look at CUPE’s Newfoundland Poll On Daycare/All-Day Kindergarten
Kids First on CKNW with Christie Clark (broken link) on all-day schooling for ages 3-5. BCTF opposed to schooling for ages 3-4. Go to Wednesday July 9, 12 pm, and go to 37 minute mark. Note: HELP, which leads the…
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April 2011. Helen Ward. Kids First Parents Association of Canada - "Response to the draft document 'Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Birth to Six Months'".
March 7, 2011. Toronto Star - article (web): "Fate of all-day kindergarten in hands of Ontario voters". Kids First Commentary Re: Fate of all-day kindergarten in hands of Ontario voters Reports claiming benefits from all-day K/daycare - behavioural, social, cognitive…
Read More Mar 2011—Toronto Star—Fate of all-day kindergarten in hands of Ontario voters.
