Feb
15, 2010: CBC
radio interview with Helen Ward, Kids First President on all-day Kindergarten,
and BC government cuts to family services as part of an "integrated approach." Go to 1:02 to hear interview
Michael
Ignatieff promises national daycare as a top priority. Sunday Feb 7, 2010: Kids
First on Corus radio interview. Go to Feb 07, 2010, 12:00 pm. To avoid commercials, go minute 7 then 23 then 33 then 47.
Women's
unpaid child-rearing and community work is a big part of the discussion
of true costs vs price. Listen to this CBC
podcast (at part 2) with Raj Patel, an economist who has worked for
the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, discussing his new book,
The Value of Nothing: Why Everything Costs So Much More Than We Think.
BC
Minister of Education on spending on all-day kindergarten and school for
0-5 year olds despite cuts to other school funds. Jan
21 2009 CBC radio BC Almanac interview - about half way through podcast.
Kids
& Drinking: UK Chief Medical Officer says parents should allow no
alcohol. Helen Ward of Kids First says parent-child attachment prevents
substance abuse in an interview
with CHQR in Calgary on Dec 21, 2009 (go to 3 pm Dec 21 and then to minute
36:30).
Sept
29, 2009 interview on HELP and data collection
July
28, 2009 interview on all-day kindergarten/daycare, how money is being
shifted from welfare families to daycare and the corporate right's support
for daycare
Breastfeeding
initiation through "breast crawl." This video shows a newborn crawling
to nipple and latching. Promoted by WHO and UNICEF
"Scam"ABC's
20/20 on Universal Preschool
Archived
Interviews on Child-Related Policy in the 2008 Federal Election Campaign
with Kids First President, Helen Ward
- Archived
on CKNW. Go to Sept 21 at 1:00 pm. The interview starts at minute
9:30.
- Archived
on CKNW. Go to Sept 14 at 1:00 pm. The interview begins at about
1:10.
The
Root Causes of Addictionlove, babies and neuroscience: Listen to
a CBC radio
interview with doctor, author and columnist, Dr. Gabor Mate, currently
working with adults with drug addictions on Vancouver's downtown eastside.
He links daycare use and lack of parental nurturing with addiction.
He says "parents should be given every support to stay at home with their
kids as long as possible."
Go to April 11,2008. Click on the "PORTLAND HOTEL CONTINUED" audio link
(the other link is to interviews with his patient/addicts and nurse).
The especially relevant bits start at 9:40 minutes and 11 minutes.
See
the TVO
debate on daycare and full-day kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds.
Charles Pascal, the Ontario advisor on full-day schooling for tots, and
daycare economist Gordon Cleveland win our BEER AND POPCORN AWARD for
contemptuous attitudes towards parents and our DAYCARE DISINFORMATION
AWARD for misleading information. Click on the Dec 5 episode.
March
26, 2007: Kids First's Helen Ward is interviewed on the CBC radio show
"The
Current" (scroll down and click "Listen to The Current: Part 1").
World
Bank corporate right backing daycare: Royal Bank of Canada Vice President
Charlie Coffey speaks of the "business imperative" in "Early Child Development,"
which in practice means daycare.
Carolyn
Bennett, Toronto MP and candidate for Liberal leadership, said it's good
the government is building more prisons because we'll need them since
they are canceling the daycare deals.
- For more information see: ProudToBeCanadian
Blog, and click "Liberals endorse Conservative Jail-Building Plan."
- Mike Duffy gives Ms Bennett a chance to explain herself. She says
it's "early learning" that is needed. See http://www.ctv.ca/canada
Go to "Mike Duffy Live" and click the Bennett link.
Neuroscience
and child development article, "Wild Young Brains" about maternal vs peer-raised
young (Video
and article)
American
"feminist" slams mothers with degrees who look after their own kids (Video
and article)
Sweden
has long emphasized "gender equity"even the daycare curriculum specifies
this. However, rising domestic violence against women in Sweden may indicate
that this policy is unsuccessful. The link is to CBC radio show "The Current".
(Audio)
CBC
archives: daycare issues over the decades (Audio
and video)
Debate:
Daycare, mothers, jobs on CBC radio "The Current," April 20, 2006interviews
on daycare issues. Professor and daycare-lobbyist Donna Lero falsely claims
that "70% of mothers have full-time jobs." (Kids First President
Helen Ward was not interviewed despite the fact that Kids First was the
only organization mentioned by the PM two days earlier in promoting the
new policy. CBC chose to interview REAL Women, again stereotyping this
as a so-called "social conservative" issue). (Audio)
PM
announces new Child Care Allowance in Burnaby, BC. April 18, 2006.
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