Playgroups 'cut leukaemia risk'

"Children who attend daycare or playgroups cut their risk of the most common type of childhood leukaemia by around 30%, a study estimates.Researchers reviewed 14 studies involving nearly 20,000 children, of which 6,000 developed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).It is...

Downside of the Boom

"Various folks continue to raise the red herring that raising minimum wages will hurt low paid workers. Somehow they will be worse off with higher wages, go figure, because small businesses will lay off workers supposedly ( despite studies showing that there is not a...

Feminizing the Proletariat

"Here is an excellent post on why women are the proletariat, not a special interest group, nor a minority . Nor is womens work in the social factory valued anymore than it is in the home. Women's work is real work My recent starting of a job in childcare has got...

Minmum Wage Blog Debate

"Well the minimum wage debate rages in the pages of Progressive Bloggers, having said my piece here and here, I will simply add this link to the PB page where you can find the vast debate that is ongoing on thisAnd just to add another two bits into this debate I include...

Minimum Wage Redux

"Since I posted on the Minimum Wage controversy this morning some more matters have come to my attention. The usual canard that minimum wages only apply to students is far from the truth as Statistics Canada shows; JUST OVER 1.3 million full-time employees aged 16 to 64 held...

Chatter Box Daycare Fire - Penn Hills Fire Department

" January 2, 2007 Pennsylvania - On December 31 approximate 7:00pm a motorist passing the Chatter Box Daycare on Frankstown Road reported smoke coming from the second floor apartment. Allegehny County 911 gave out a bad address initially and fire Chief Pete from 225 jumped in...

Ms Claus Gets No Coin

"or a certain Bethlehem-born babe, seasonal swag is all about gold, frankincense and myrrh. But for personal saviours closer to home - namely, Canadian moms - a new survey suggests the more appropriate gift is $10,017. That's what the average mother would collect if her...

Published

"It's always nice to be published, with a byline, in hardcopy. In this case my article; Harpers Faith Based Childcare, was printed in the fall issue of the B.C. Humanist Magazine."

Baba Sitting

"As I have said here before the childcare in Alberta is based on baby sitting provided by Baba. Which is now the Federal Conservative child care plan. And this is the result that Canadians can look forward to... A report presented to Cochrane's town council last week...

Faith Based Capitalism

" And in its current floating of the idea of defense of religion legislation should it lose the vote on defining marriage as a Christian heterosexual institution. If that succeeds this would be the result....."

Big Daddy State

"Forget the liberal nanny state, this is the age of the Conservative Big Daddy State. Whose motto is do as Daddy says not as Daddy-do.Harper, six Tory MPs on ultimate boys' night out"