Reading Time: 3 minutes Study shows Canadian kids see more than 25 million online food and beverage ads a year – mostly for junk food. It’s time for that to end
Tag: Parenting
Putting a stop to health care that lacks value
Reading Time: 3 minutes Choosing Wisely is helping obstetricians and gynecologists target reductions in unnecessary care that may harm patients and cost the Canadian health system
Ottawa should leave daycare policy to the provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes Goals imposed by Ottawa rob provinces of the flexibility to adjust policy. And the feds could add conditions over time, using funds as leverage
Bursting the universal daycare bubble
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those lobbying for a universal system make up an unholy alliance of left and right – and very little of it has anything to do with actual benefits to children
The truth about wasteful daycare funding
Reading Time: 3 minutes Offer money – not centres or spaces – to families and allow parents to make choices without being told the kind of care they’ll use
Valuing motherhood advances women’s rights
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plight of the North American woman is that she can be all she wants to be, just don’t bring motherhood into the picture
Nova Scotia rationing primary health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nova Scotia Health Authority insists on deciding who will have primary-care physicians and who will not, leaving seniors and expecting parents in the lurch
Defusing the ticking time bomb of postpartum depression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The biggest predictors of postpartum depression are prenatal depression and a history of depression before conception
Why is it so hard for mothers to breastfeed in Canada?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Members of the public can help by supporting women’s right to breastfeed in public and demanding baby-friendly standards in health-care settings
Right idea, wrong messenger, for education reform in Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes A federal Tory candidate’s policy proposal would end a decade of silence on school choice in Canada