I’m just going to point out a few recent events here, and let’s see if you can spot a worrying pattern.
(1) Dalton McGuinty introduces full-day Kindergarten. (And the ETFO loves it!!!)
(2) Michael Ignatieff marvels at Dalton’s sheer courage and audacity to bring such an expensive program in at a time when the economy is in fragile recovery-mode and Ontario is a Have-Not Province. In fact, he exclaims with unabashed hero-worship:
“When I see a Dalton McGuinty get up in the teeth of a recession, in the teeth of a deficit, and commit to full-day kindergarten, I am proud to be a Liberal,” he told the crowd.
(3) Mr. Iffy announces big National Childcare program – “I’m not going to allow the deficit discussion to shut down discussion in this country about social justice.” Oh my, how very Daltonesque of you!
(4) Expert predicts costs for daycare will rise as a direct result of Full-day kindergarten.
Mmmm….
So is Mr. Iffy taking a page from Dalton’s book? Or worse, is he planning an Ontario bail-out if he becomes PM?
Monte Solberg suggests it wouldn’t take much to twist Dalton’s arm on this one (H/T Liz J):
…Sure the provinces will roll over if the Liberals throw enough money at them. They certainly did last time. But the government doesn’t have any money, except what it squeezes from taxpayers who can’t afford to pay more. And still there’s that deficit that could choke a horse.
But let’s say for argument’s sake that we agree to spend billions to box up little Timmy and mail him off every morning to the Gradgrind Educational Institution.
How then do we afford Iggy’s other important social justice imperative — providing a year’s worth of Employment Insurance benefits for only eight weeks of work? Geez I guess Iggy’s view is that you enter state care when you’re eight months old, and you never really leave it…
What a team.
Dalton and Mr. Iffy —> Looking after Ontarians and Big Public Unions on the backs of taxpayers and their offspring from wealthier provinces.
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Related (Dalton spending more of your money)
Policy on the fly – Toronto Star (!!!):
…Asked yesterday about the pension issue, Premier Dalton McGuinty said: “The decision that we’ve made, with respect to people at Nortel, I think is fair.” Maybe so. But one is left to wonder what will happen to workers who do not happen to live in a riding facing a byelection and whose pension plans are underfunded…
Magic money just a McGuinty trick – Randall Denley:
When it comes to byelections, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is like a genie. Each of his magic candidates gets to make one wish and the premier grants it. It used to be three wishes, but these are hard times…
I had forgotten about his plan for EI. He has sort of put that on the back burner, but it is something to remember.
Iffy lives in Ontario and knows the tax will be paid by Albertans and the other “Have” provinces. In following the tradition of Quebec with developing programs paid for others.
Did you really expect a Liberal to do otherwise? Really?
I live in Ontario and I think it is time for Alberta and the “have” provinces to remind the have-nots a federation works both ways.
Let the parents in Toronto pay for their daycare spots through a Toronto “daycare tax”.
Just remember the term, CHOICE. That is what disappears under this WAREHOUSED child theme.
No room for recognizing stay at home parents,family care, private daycare,day home options etc. As is the case in our dysfunctional Health care systems, this too would be a complete financial boondoggle.
Governments that try to be business operators, have proven themselves , time after time to be terrible money managers.
This idea is no exception and if families cannot creatively provide care for their children, they should probably think twice before having them or at a minimum, make some personal sacrifices with their material world.
For those who missed it, BT’s very own Sara Landriault
was on Roy Green yesterday, along with two other like-minded child care experts.
Lot’s of shots taken at Iggy’s National Plan. The consensus on Harper seemed to be that he had taken a step in the right direction (with the $100 per month program), but needs to do more.
Listen Here
Bring up Sun, Feb 7th @ 1:07 PM
My position is: Politicians should read Sections 91 and 92 of the British North America Act, which outlines the responsibilities of the Federal and Provincial Governments, respectively.
Delivery of social programs is clearly a Provincial responsibility. Leave the feds alone to their justice, defence, foreign affairs, etc files.
Day care is under provincial jurisdiction. Alberta just announced they will create an additional 14,000 day care spaces this year
Some of the money is matched funds from the funding program the Harper government initiated a few years ago which has been used to train new day care staff, top up existing wages to encourage staff retention, provide subsidies which follow the child no matter what kind of day care is used, plus other incentives.
This funding is additional to the $100 per month direct to parents.
It is substantial and it is working. It is just not reported because it is not all to unionized groups who have paid lobbyists.
Off topic but … Norman Spector in the Globe is reporting on Nik Nanos’s latest poll (Jan 29 to Feb 4), which has the good guys ahead by 1.7 %
CPC @ 35.6 %
LPC @ 33.9 %
NDP @ 16.4 %
Greens @ 5.6 %
For some strange reason, the English language National News Watch only links to the La Presse article.
Aaron Wherry and Kady O’Malley have yet to weigh in with their negative spin.
Jo — your readers might also be interested in this post: “U.S. Head Start a $166 billion dollar failure.”
http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2010/01/23/u-s-head-start-a-166-billion-failure/
Sure, there are “economic studies” that claim universal child care would reduce crime and poverty later in life, but there are just too many variables to make such claims.
So, while it makes sense that disadvantaged kids — those that have illerate parents, for example — would benefit from a good child care program, the claims of outcomes are greatly exaggerated.
My point has always been that parents are the first best option, then relatives and friends or neighbourhood daycare programs.
We don’t need the universal boondoggles. Just imagine a politician trying to take away the Quebec program now. Not ever going to happen!
This is just Iffy brushing off the 1993 Red Book. More promises that will be broken because child care is a provincial responsibility.
That is why the Conservative child care benefit makes so much more sense!
It’s hard not think of cynicism and weasels when you hear McGuinty now saying he will be helping out former employees of Nortel when there just happens to be a by-election coming up in Ottawa West Nepean,the one Jimmy Watson left to run for Mayor of Ottawa. There are many former Nortel people living in that area. Bob Charelli, former Mayor of Ottawa is running for the Liberals and he could use some help. To make it even worse, McGuinty says it has nothing to do with the by-election. Just another Liberal weasel lie.
Statscan came out with a survey, I think it was 2006-07, and I remember distinctly that only 14% of children under 6 were cared for in public institutions.
IF Canadians are willing to buck up billions for childcare,
the fair way to go would be income splitting for families with children under 6.
Income splitting gives parents the choice in childcare rather than dumping billions on the 14% (rich and poor) that use public facilities.
Liz, yeah. The word McWeasel does spring to mind alright regarding Nortel.
I seem to be having that problem again with my post showing up under Blogging Tories as the Harper Government Record rather than Blue Like You. Very strange.
Yes, Joanne, McWeasel best describes him. He’s keeping up the Liberal tradition of insulting our intelligence. No one can believe he’s not running interference in the by-election, helping his friend and candidate Charelli.
“Quebec daycare bad for children
Quebec’s much-heralded universal child-care program might be good for the economy, but not for the kids enrolled in it, a study by a Toronto-based think tank says.
By The Gazette (Montreal)February 2, 2006″
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=d16cc6be-0622-4719-8b4d-bba03a6a8a76&k=53003
“The researchers found that in the post-universal daycare period, aggression among 2- to 4-year-olds increased by 24 per cent in Quebec, compared with one per cent in the rest of Canada.
The relative increase in hyperactivity and anxiety was also substantial, while certain social and motor skills declined.
The proportion of parents reporting nose or throat infections in newborns to 2-year-olds rose by about 20 per cent in Quebec, but stayed constant in the rest of Canada.
“For almost every measure, we find an increased use of child care was associated with a decrease in their well-being relative to other children,” the authors write.
The well-being of parents also declined, with more mothers reporting depression. There was also a greater incidence of hostile parenting and dissatisfaction with spouses.”
“.. a 2003 study by the U.S.-based National Institute of Child Health and Development Early Childcare Research Network that also linked disobedience and aggression to time spent away from maternal care.”
“The study should give pause to those advocating extension of the Quebec program federally, the authors argue.”
Now, that’s telling the truth!! National Daycare, in my view, is the worst gift you can give your children.
One things to remember on the issue of McGuinty’s full-day Kindergaten promise is that:
1)it ended up looking nothing like full-day K (and what was recommended by the “experts”)
and
2) McGuinty never budgeted for is in the last budget and STILL hasn’t bothered to explain how he intends to pay for it.
Also, only 600 schools(it’s a bit less actually 580″something”) will be offering the early learning program this year. Ontario has over 4,000 schools Not exactly the sweeping full-day care or learning that wast promised is it?
This program is also going to be more popular and needed in larger urban centres where both parents work. It will not go over well in a community like mine where parents have chosen to have one parent stay home with their children.
Something else to consider is that their are boards in Ontario who don’t want to be in the business of daycare or running before/after school programs. These boards currently have great working relationships with private and municipal daycare providers and don’t wish to see them go under at the expense of the provincial program.
Where Mister Iffy Waffle’s concerned, in this issue, as many, many others he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Likely using cheat sheets provided by Donolo.
Aristocrat that Iffy is, I’m betting that it was private nannys and boarding school for Michael’s Mini Waffles.
At least in Alberta when the province opens up more daycare spaces parents who choose outside of the system get help too. Whether it’s Charter legislation, or homeschool at least Alberta recognizes the choice of parents. Not like here when Dalton and Iffy want your kids earlier and earlier to socially engineer them on the finer points of what ails society.
I posted somewhere here about how one Ontario teacher union is offering cold hard cash for its members to write curriculum on stuff like global warming, poverty, womens’ issues etc.
Why not use unsuspecting toddlers to hone them early on to the benefits of life as a lemming?
Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): Just in time for the SkinnyDippers to perform, aka CBCMercer/Canada’s “Liberal leader” Boob Lae, aka Mao Stlong’s nephew.
Watch for socialist Red-Green AGW’s Death Count.
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“Siberian cold likely to bring sub-zero temperatures and snow
Winter will make an icy return this week as a Siberian blast of bitterly cold air sweeps through Europe and freezes Britain.
Much of the country could see snow, with forecasters saying that sub-zero temperatures could last until the end of the month.”
“Already this winter has been the coldest since 1981-82 across Britain, and the coldest in Scotland in archives dating back to 1914. With a cold February now in prospect, this winter is now turning out to be unusually long and hard — more like the “winter of discontent” in 1978-79, one of the worst winters of the 20th century.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article7018518.ece
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013302.html
First, a couple of comments about the IDEA of National Childcare.
1. Who would it help?
A – Mainly it would help those populations in the large cities, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. These large cities would have their childcare subsidized by every Canadian who lives in smaller towns and villages where the population isn’t large enough to support such a daycare centre.
In effect, the Liberals have promised Nationalized Daycare because it would bolster the areas where Liberals find the most support. Great….everyone else is punished with new taxes so Liberal MP’s could get re-elected.
Quebec’s experience
They already have the rest of the country subsidizing their “free” childcare, so any new program would exempt Quebec, but Quebec would still demand more money. Count on it. The waiting list in Quebec is huge, but what we have now is examples of very wealthy Quebec married couples with six income salaries being subsidized by “Jean Guy” the forestry worker, or Pierre the fisherman. In effect, the urban young professionals in Montreal are having their daycare for very low costs, whereas the taxes used to pay for it are coming from Alberta and Northern Quebec who have no similarly rich programs. Like always, Quebec elites gets the benefits, everyone else gets the bill.
What would it cost?
Well, imagine if you will the people who would be providing the service. Currently, they are in effect “Babysitters” who are looking after our kids. We just want some place safe where the kids will get fed, kept out of trouble, etc. Right now, the “babysitters” are getting a pretty good salary based on what they do. Now, consider what would happen if all of these childcare workers suddenly see themselves as “Early Childhood Educators” Not only would their sense of self-importance inflate, they would also demand that their salaries reflect their new role. Forget for the moment they are in effect doing the same thing as before, but now they have the Government’s approval to call themselves Early Childhood Educators. How long do you think it would be before they started demanding the same kind of wages or salaries that our already over-paid teachers receive? Trust me, the costs will be A LOT higher once the “Union of Early Childhood Educators” ramps up their publicity campaigns.
What does it mean?
It means that your kid will no longer be raised with YOUR values, but will instead be exposed to the values of their respective Early Childhood Educator. Who’s willing to pay for that risk, knowing that the values your kids will be exposed to may not be your own? What’s going to happen when little johnny comes home and tells you that his “Early childhood Educator” tells you it’s wrong to club seals, or that the Palestinians deserve their own homeland but that people called “jews” won’t let them. Don’t think it will happen? Ask Sid Ryan at CUPE how he feels about it.
On an emotional level, how do some Liberals really feel about National Childcare?
In my conversation with some “Young Liberals” the basic justification I heard was to achieve the following goals:
1. Get the little black kids, particularly the Jamaican population from toronto away from their parents for a few hours a day. The liberals think this would allow the child to “escape” the horrible atmosphere in the black community that is rife with drug abuse and guns. It would also allow these kids of Jamaican parents to learn to speak English properly.
2. It would allow aborigianl kids to escape the atmosphere of alcohol and sexual abuse that is so prevalent in the aboriginal community…etc…etc…
You get the idea.
In other words, National Daycare benefits the two types of Liberals we have in the Federal Liberal Party.
Type 1 – (the Majority of Liberals) Only interested in power, and willing to spend any amount of other people’s money to achieve it.
Type 2 – Liberals with a social conscience….at least when it comes to black and aboriginal children, who according to this group of Liberals doesn’t stand a chance of success if they are “Forced” to be raised by those who gave them life.
Choose your Liberal.
Jo — I just checked the Harper Gov’t Accomplishments title on the BT aggregator and it is definitely now being forwarded to Just Politics.
But, just in case, I have also removed the entire “list” from the page on your header bar — in case there was a link there causing havoc. Instead, I simply added a sentence and a link to the same list at Just Politics.
So, hopefully, that will put an end to the “strange” behaviour.
I don’t understand it because all the titles on the BT aggregator are based on our domain’s URL.
But, if the problem continues, you will likely have to e-mail ST to get things straightened out.
Ed — Many thanks for the Montreal Gazette link. I missed that one. I am going to look up the original report and write something about it — because it is VERY relevant not only to McGuinty’s full day program but Ignatieff’s proposal.
I agree that the monthly childcare approach is best, combined with income splitting for young families (as Sarah suggests) would be a dynamite option in a federal election. In fact, most people would rather that option than the 2% GST cut. More control in the hands of Canadians, not the government bureaucracy.
Thanks Sandy. Yes, it’s very strange because nothing else really changed.
Sandy, we better hope the Conservatives put forth the idea combining the monthly childcare with income splitting for young families NOW. The Liberals are famous for stealing good ideas so if they realize Iffy’s plan will not work or isn’t what the majority want they’ll have no problem running with this idea.
James Halifax @ 1:09 pm
Home Run! You hit it out of the ballpark with your excellent synopsis of a Liberal, child programming factory!
Poll at Ottawa Sun today; “Should Ontario cover for Nortel pension plan failure”?
Yes- 21%
No -79%
No matter, McWeasel has committed in a timely fashion to coincide with an Ottawa By-election.
Yes I agree with Bec! That is a very powerful comment James. Well done. I hope we hear more from you.
You’re welcome, Sandy. The trouble is there are so many topics to hit on.
The first 5 years of life are most important. What you are at 5 is what you become at 21 or so I heard.
The government taking over child care is sort of like a parent looking at one of their married sons or daughters and how they raise their children. Instead of giving a helping hand, the parent says “you don’t know how to raise your children, I’m going to do it for you.”
The government instead of supporting parents wants to take over the raising of their children. This ensures government values rather than parental values.
“Tories choose Clark as candidate
Steve Clark came out the winner after more than 700 Leeds-Grenville Progressive Conservative members packed a Brockville hotel Saturday afternoon to choose a candidate for the March 4 byelection to replace Bob Runciman.”
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“90 attend Liberal nomination meeting
About 90 people attended the Leeds-Grenville Liberal meeting this weekend to acclaim Stephen Mazurek as candidate for the March 4 byelection.”
http://recorder.ca/
Anybody can be proud to have Shelly Glover for their MP. She was fabulous on Power Play tonight against Dr. Carolyn Bennett. Well done.
For McGuinty this is all about preparation for the next provincial election. He’s courting the urban vote plain and simple. The total rewrite of elementary curriculum is also a move destined to make Dalton look better than he’s actually been on the education file.
Ditto Ignatieff
Liberal-socialist Iffy whams into a socialist snow fence.
Taliban Jack LaytoNDP chortles.
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“Federal New Democrats poke fun at Michael Ignatieff attending Olympics
By Charlie Smith
Vancouver civic politicians have learned that their constituents don’t like them attending Olympic events on the taxpayers’ dime. From what I’ve heard, their e-mail in-boxes are full of complaints.
Now, the federal New Democrats are exploiting this issue by highlighting how federal Liberals will be attending the 2010 Games rather than “working” on Parliament Hill.
Last week, NDP Leader Jack Layton said he would be watching the Olympics on television as he copes with prostate cancer.
In a “reality check” released today, the NDP accused the federal Grits of taking advantage of “Olympic junkets”.
Below is a copy of the NDP news release:
REALITY CHECK: Ignatieff snags flip-flop gold. Tough-talking Liberals fleeing Hill for Olympic junkets
From the curling rink to the athletes’ village, Ignatieff and the Liberal team will be abandoning their post on Parliament Hill to make the scene at Olympic venues:
“Leader Michael Ignatieff will use the special pass put at his disposal to be present for about three days at the start of the Games and again toward the end. But he will ‘not be running after the cameras,’ a party official said.” – Globe and Mail, 5 February 2009
“An email mysteriously arrived in my inbox showing that [Liberal] MP Joyce Murray requested 10 distinguished guest passes and five upgraded access passes for the Games ‘so that Liberal parliamentarians can have some representation’ at the events.” – Don Martin, National Post, 4 February 2010.
Liberals sure are excited! But hold on one one-hundredth-of-a-second.
Wasn’t it only four weeks ago, as the public outcry against Harper’s prorogation was picking up, that Michael Ignatieff sternly boasted to the press that every Liberal MP would be channeling Canadians’ outrage into hard work in Ottawa – right through the Olympics?
“ ‘We will be working, in other words, right through the Olympics, which is what we think Canadians want to see,’ he said. When asked if he truly expected all Liberal politicians to be in Ottawa throughout prorogation, Mr. Ignatieff replied: ‘We don’t play half team. We all show up. And we are not just showing up for a photo op. We are showing up to go to work’.” – Michael Ignatieff as quoted in the Globe and Mail, 8 January 2010
If Liberals intended to go to the Olympics, why did Michael Ignatieff say they would be “showing up to work” in Ottawa?”
http://www.straight.com/article-286477/vancouver/federal-new-democrats-poke-fun-michael-ignatieff-attending-olympics
(H/T Bourque)
Ruth @ 6:03pm
We are extremely proud to have Shelly as our MP. She is smart, caring, down to earth, and works very hard for her constituents.
Thanks for the “heads up” that she is on Power Play….I just can’t watch that show anymore unless I know that someone special is going to be on.
Pm Stephen Harper ftw b/c he is awesome.
Adult Terms:
Stephen Harper is the greatest prime minister of all time.
Maz2 – Re: the Libs going to the Olympics. Somebody has to post that article on the anti-perogy Facebook site.
SGM –
I maybe praised Shelly too soon. As I heard a little clip of Evan Solomon, his group was running her down. Didn’t watch Power and Politics so I don’t know what that was about.
Someone else can fill us in.
W-K has surfaced.
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“Libel filings show battle between hate-hunter and conservative blogger
Joseph Brean, National Post
Richard Warman, Canada’s top online hate-hunter and scourge of free speech advocates, offered his first public response on Monday to the online campaign against him led by conservative blogger and lawyer Ezra Levant.
In court filings for a libel suit, Mr. Warman calls Mr. Levant’s conduct toward him “obsessive,” states he “has no respect for authority,” and says it is “surprising” he is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Alberta.
“Mr. Levant is in the habit of fabricating extremely serious allegations of misconduct against others,” Mr. Warman states in an affidavit filed in Ontario Superior Court.
“He describes various human rights tribunals across Canada as ‘kangaroo courts.’ He vilifies their members, he accuses their lawyers of lying to them (without any evidence) and he mocks those who would dare to disagree with him.”
In a brief hearing on Monday, Mr. Levant’s lawyer Peter Jacobsen said Mr. Warman has made “irrelevant and scandalous accusations,” and that he will file a full written response in two weeks. Mr. Levant declined to comment on them on Monday.
Of all the libel suits that arose from the vicious public debate over hate speech in human rights law, none are as richly layered as this one, known officially as Richard Warman v. The National Post Company, Jonathan Kay, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Fivefeetoffury.com, smalldeadanimals.com, Catherine McMillan, Mark Fournier, FreeDominion.ca, Constance Wilkins-Fournier.
There are others, including one that goes to trial this morning in Ottawa, brought against Mr. Levant by Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer Giacomo Vigna.
Khurrum Awan, a lawyer whose hate speech complaints against Maclean’s magazine brought the issue to Canada’s front pages, has another on the docket against Mr. Levant.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2538327
W-K has surfaced. Continued.
“This awkward compliment, which carried the implication that regional cops perhaps cannot tell a swastika from a spatula,”
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“Tales from the hate crime underworld
Joseph Brean, National Post
Ku Klux Klan members distribute pamplets in front of a store in the 100-block Hastings Street in Vancouver in February, 1982.
The Island of the White Supremacists is not, as it might sound, a Survivor-style reality show in extraordinarily poor taste.
It is more like a private video game, set in an imaginary tropical paradise in the online virtual world of Second Life, where “Internet neo-Nazis” gather around a digital tiki bar “for planning and plotting recruitment efforts and gatherings,” according to an Ontario government hate crime expert.
In that sense, it is like a cartoon version of what lay in store for the real-life Caribbean island of Dominica in 1981, when it was the target of a failed coup by group of Canadian and American far-right mercenaries.
The expert’s account of how she won a rare invitation to the island — and the imaginary stripping and prostitution that helped pay her imaginary boat fare — was a bizarre highlight of a legal conference on hate crimes this week in Toronto, attended by senior judges, Crowns and defense lawyers, chiefs of police and politicians.
Ms. Corb, who asked that her first name be witheld, is an Open Source Intelligence Operations Specialist for the Hate Crime Extremism Investigative Team, a joint effort of 13 Ontario police forces. “I act as an agent of the police,” she said, but she is not an officer.
In her workshop presentation about online hate, she described how racist groups use social media, and she showed the Facebook pages of prominent Canadian hatemongers, noting how free they are with personal information.
She also showed video of a Second Life pole-dancer — “I’m sorry if this offensive,” she said — to illustrate her anecdote about needing to raise Second Life play-money to pay for the ferry to the island, and turning first to stripping and then prostitution.
“I hooked a few times, turned my tricks, and I’m sorry to say I didn’t make much money as a Second Life hooker,” she said. “I’m not joking.”
As with many otherwise intelligent adults who are baffled by new media, some people in the room did not seem to get it.
“What is illegal about Second Life?” asked one.
Who are you calling a shoe?
Mark Freiman, national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and former Deputy Attorney-General of Ontario, is among the most esteemed defenders of Section 13, the possibly unconstitutional internet hate speech section of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which is soon to be argued in federal court.
In a debate over Section 13 with law professor Richard Moon, a prominent critic, Mr. Freiman said many of its problems can be solved by “relatively simple tweaks.” He also came up with the quote of the day when he justified hate speech laws like this: “The marketplace of ideas is as prone to market failure as the market for exotic financial derivative instruments.”
But he came close to insulting the many police officers in the room by identifying a lack of police expertise as a major problem for hate crime prosecutions, a generalization he qualified by acknowledging the work of Toronto’s hate crime squad.
This awkward compliment, which carried the implication that regional cops perhaps cannot tell a swastika from a spatula, prompted Chief Armand LaBarge of York Region to stand up at the mic, but he got cut off by the timekeeper.”
(more)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2529344
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“Subversive Green Police Video”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/298034.php
Psychology Today magazine:
The Trouble With Day Care.
By Heide Lang, published on May 01, 2005 – last reviewed on May 30, 2007
“It could be the greatest social experiment of our time, in which millions of parents are unwitting participants. …So says Stanley Greenspan, George Washington University child psychiatrist, ”
“Instead of parents …, .. it is outsourced to virtual strangers. … estimated 12 million American infants, toddlers and preschoolers … attend day care. .. majority of these kids spend close to 40 hours per week in day care; many start when they are only weeks old.”
“.. latest findings, from a huge, long-term government study, show that kids who spend long hours in day care have behavior problems that persist well into elementary school.”
“Jay Belsky, a child development researcher at London’s Birbeck College …
Children in full-time day care were close to three times more likely to show behavior problems than those cared for by their mothers at home.”
“….. children spending long hours in day care had higher levels of aggression than those raised by their mothers.”
“Parents and caregivers noted frequent hitting of other children and caregivers, arguing, cheating, destruction of objects and demands for excessive attention.”
“Data from a government study …. behavior problems at age 5. The 113 behaviors surveyed include frequent arguing, temper tantrums, lying, hitting and unpredictable conduct.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200505/the-trouble-day-care
Liberal Phil Osopher and O’lympian Mr. Iffy and la Jalousie, oui, oui.
““It’s the role of the philosopher to land blows.””
Liberal Phil Osopher Mr. Iffy, says, I-Me wishes I-Me had said that.
But, you know Moi; I-Me think thoughts, not speak thoughts.
Is BHL Lib Iffy’s idol?
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“Bernard-Henri Lévy a laughing stock for quoting fictional philosopher
When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation. To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply by his initials, BHL — cited the little-known 20th-century thinker Jean-Baptiste Botul.
There was one problem: Botul was invented by a journalist in 1999 as an elaborate joke, and BHL has become the laughing stock of the Left Bank.
There were clues. One supposed work by Botul — from which BHL quoted — was entitled The Sex Life of Immanuel Kant. The philosopher’s school is known as Botulism and subscribes to his theory of “La Metaphysique du Mou” — the Metaphysics of the Flabby. Botul even has a Wikipedia entry that explains that he is a “fictional French philosopher”.
But Mr Lévy, a leader among the nouveaux philosophes school of the 1970s, was unaware. In On War in Philosophy, he writes that Botul had proved once and for all “just after the Second World War, in his series of lectures to the neo-Kantians of Paraguay, that their hero was an abstract fake, a pure spirit of pure appearance”.
The blunder was seized on with glee by a literary world fiercely jealous of BHL’s success.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7019866.ece
Joanne and Sandy – re: your blog ghosts. Do either of you have pop-up advert enabled on your blogs? Beginning later yesterday when I called up either of your blogs I got a pop-up advert. When it happened I simply deleted it. If it happens again today I’ll be sure and send the page to you.
Nothing this a.m.
Pop-up adverts? Yikes!!
Another quick point for those who are in favour of “Early Learning and Childcare”
If you want this program because you have small children and would like a break from raising them……just consider;
You’re kids will most likely be finishing Grade 8 before this program takes effect, so you will then be subsidizing someone else’s kids.
The program doesn’t sound quite so appealing now does it?
Joanne said “Pop-up adverts? Yikes!!” I second that. I have no idea how that happens. I am not even allowed to put ads on my wordpress.com (free) site. And, I have paid for the “no ads” upgrade — because wordpress will do that. But Joanne is on wordpress.org so that doesn’t count. In effect, we are on different servers now, so there should be no connection.
I assume it is Richco’s own computer then, where the pop arts are coming from. They are soooooo annoying, aren’t they?
That’s very interesting that daycare costs are expected to go up due to the full day kindergarten. A lot of people who were happy about the fully day kindergarten were because it was going to save them money but it looks like that’s not the case. Thanks for highlighting that article.