June 22, 2006: Advocacy-Commission a Poll, Home Boy, Art -&- Daycare Links

Environics Research survey: Before you accept this at Environics' value, check how much money Environics made when it polled for the former Liberal government(s). Then ask what "a child-care advocacy group" might have gained from the Liberal plan ... which might affect their commissioning a poll. -- Canadians pick Liberal child-care plan over Tory $1,200 cheques: poll.
Sue Bailey, June 20, 06

OTTAWA (CP) - A majority of Canadians favour Liberal over Conservative plans for dealing with what they say is a serious lack of affordable child care, suggests a new poll commissioned by a child-care advocacy group. [....]

Would this impact anything?


Art & Mothering ... Funded by Canada Council for the Arts

Doesn't this just thrill you? ... The milk of human kindness ... using your tax dollars.

Performance artist offers free tastings at 'breast milk bar' -- "The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar is partly funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts." June 15, 2006, Macleans
http://
www.macleans.ca/culture/news/
shownews.jsp?content=e061551A

[....] The work [was] staged July 13 at the Ontario College of Art and Design Professional Gallery.

Dobkin, described in the release as a single lesbian mother of a one-year-old daughter, said she became interested in taboos surrounding breastfeeding. [....]

It is not the lesbian part that gets taxpayers irritated, I suspect; it is the ridiculous waste of $$$ ... you know, taxpayer $$$ ... the ones taxpayers work for.


Mothering & Daycare

Women in the workplace -- daycare CNEWS, posted by casper34, 6/16/2006 14:58:32

Note: I have not had time to read these links but they might be worth checking, since I have found useful information from these posters in the past.

http://
www.literacytrust.org.uk/research/pressearly.html

[And from TruerAlberta:]
"Daycare centers are liberal slaughterhouses of the mind"
http://
www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.7.14.22219.3493.html

"DAYCARE IS BAD FOR BOYS"
http://
archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-69-1710-11804/life_society/day_care/

http://
www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/
components/7268b.html

http://
www.daycaresdontcare.org/
http://www.daycaresdontcare.org/History/History.htm

"Be prepared. Boys and girls of the next generation are going to be bratty but smart, perhaps more so than their older siblings."
http://
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/008/40.28.html

"Toddlers in nurseries 'brighter but more aggressive'"
http://
www.literacytrust.org.uk/research/pressearly.html




Home Boy ... Could we say he has great connections?


CTV did have a photo of Abdelhaleen on its website June 6, 06; it has disappeared ... almost as if it might cause some ... politically incorrect musing ... Is that possible in nice, oh-so-politically-correct Canada?

Note: I may have posted this previously; I simply do not remember. It is too important, I would think, to omit. Besides, I found the photo had disappeared. Why?

Accused 'inspired by al-Qaeda,' say police Jun. 4, 06

[....] The Mississauga suspects are Zakaria Amara, 20, Asad Ansari, 21, Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, and 19-year-old Saad Khalid.

[....] Shareef Abdelhaleen is an unmarried computer programmer of Egyptian descent, Galati said. He emigrated from Egypt at the age of 10 with his father who is now an engineer on contract with Atomic Energy of Canada, the lawyer said. [....]