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Separating Children From Parents Has Been a Strategy of Canadian Politicians Since Before Confederation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 16, 2021in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, First Nations, Misc., Power imbalance between parents & state

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…

Court Demands Child Protection Services Keep Baby & Mum Together

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 15, 2021June 15, 2021in Child Protection Services, First Nations

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…

Long-Standing Daycare Lobbyist Error Corrected

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 17, 2021May 20, 2021in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 8, 2021May 8, 2021in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 16, 2021in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 11, 2020June 15, 2021in Misc.

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 15, 2009May 26, 2021in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…