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arrowFeb 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

arrowMichael 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.

arrowWomen'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.

arrowBC 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.

arrowKids & 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).

arrowSept 29, 2009 interview on HELP and data collection

arrowJuly 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

arrowBreastfeeding initiation through "breast crawl." This video shows a newborn crawling to nipple and latching. Promoted by WHO and UNICEF

arrow"Scam"—ABC's 20/20 on Universal Preschool

arrowArchived 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.

arrowThe Root Causes of Addiction—love, 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.

arrowSee 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.

arrowMarch 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").

arrowWorld 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. arrowCarolyn 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.
arrowNeuroscience and child development article, "Wild Young Brains" about maternal vs peer-raised young (Video and article)

arrowAmerican "feminist" slams mothers with degrees who look after their own kids (Video and article)

arrowSweden 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)

arrowCBC archives: daycare issues over the decades (Audio and video)

arrowDebate: Daycare, mothers, jobs on CBC radio "The Current," April 20, 2006—interviews 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)

arrowPM announces new Child Care Allowance in Burnaby, BC. April 18, 2006.
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