2021 June. National Post - (web news article): "The Canadians who thought Residential Schools were a good idea"For KF archive copy of news article see here Note: Edgerton Ryerson was the 'father' of not only the Residential School system but…
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Court Demands Child Protection Services Keep Baby & Mum Together
2018 March. Angela Sterritt. CBC - (web news article): "B.C. court rules against MCFD, permits Indigenous mother and child to return home with supports: Calling it a 'learning experience,' MCFD says it will be reviewing the case" For KF archive…
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Long-Standing Daycare Lobbyist Error Corrected
May 5, 2021 - Kids First submitted this correction (PDF) to two different articles in the Toronto Star regarding incorrect statements that: 1. Leading daycare lobbyist, Martha Friendly's lobby group, the Childcare Resource and Reference Unity, is at the University…
Daycare Lobby Power Grab History: Toronto Star Daycare Reporter Describes How Canada’s Daycare Lobby Legacy Feminists Got Power by Getting in Bed With the Business Elite Neo-lib/Cons, “The Boys”, “The Suits” at RBC, the World Bank and the OCED
2005. Laurie Monsabraaten. Toronto Star - (news article): "The 'Tiny Tot' brigade; The daycare lobby believed it might actually for the first time in 30 years taste victory a publicly funded, national child-care program. But defeat seems to be making…
WSJ – “A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing”
1998 (posted 2021 March). Andrew Peyton Thomas. Wall Street Journal - (article): "A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing". PDF excerpt copy for reference Edward Zigler, co-founder of US Head Start program, called daycare centres "PSYCHOLOGICAL THALIDOMIDE"The research cited in this…
Daycare Lobby Fuzzy Numbers Noted
2020 December. Jack M. Mintz. Financial Post - (web op-ed): "Daycare is no Laffer matter: The public should be skeptical of stories, even ones garbed in sophisticated economic analysis, that subsidies will pay for themselves" KF archive PDF copy here Kids…
“Our Phony Economy.” A Harper’s Magazine article
June 2008. Jonathan Rowe. Harper’s Magazine - (magazine article): “Our Phony Economy"Simon Kuznets invented the GDP but opposed using it as if it measured all production: “The volume of services rendered by housewives and other members of the household toward…