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Ready for Christmas?

December 18, 2010




To those readers celebrating Christmas or just anticipating time off from work and school to be together with their family, I thought I would throw together a few posts that you may find helpful while I continue working on my next in-depth post. Establishing Holiday Traditions Everyone wants the holidays to be a special time [...]

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Conservative Party – Parenting and Family Issues

October 8, 2008




This post describes some of the parenting and family related promises outlined in the Conservatives platform. It should be noted that much of their platform focuses on what they have already achieved, rather than what they promise to do. In this post, I will focus primarily on new promises that they are making (to keep [...]

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Canadian Election Family Issues Around the Blogosphere

October 7, 2008




Obviously I’m not the only one with thoughts on the issues. In addition to my own posts on the election, here are a few other blog posts that I’ve found on family and parenting issues in the Canadian election. Family Outing: Incredibly well written post by Ariel Troster on rabble.ca. I can’t say it better [...]

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Canadian Election Family Issues – Platforms and Commentary

October 3, 2008




For the next few weeks as we ride into the Canadian election, I am going to keep this post stickied to the top of the main page to act as an index to the posts on the election. I will add to it as new posts are published. To those not interested in the Canadian [...]

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Green Party – Parenting and Family Issues

October 3, 2008




This post describes some of the key parenting and family issues outlined in the Green Party’s vision and platform. Family Needs and Finances Committed to nurturing families and communities through integrated policies that focus on the welfare of the child, starting with prenatal nutrition all the way to affordable housing and accessible post secondary education. [...]

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NDP – Parenting and Family Issues

October 3, 2008




This post describes some of the key parenting and family issues outlined in the NDP platform for the 2008 election. Family Needs and Finances Introduce a Poverty Elimination Act to elimiate poverty in Canada by 2020, with initial targets of reducing child poverty by more than 50 percent and overall poverty by more than 35 [...]

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Liberal Party – Parenting and Family Issues

October 3, 2008




This post describes some of the key parenting and family issues outlined in the Liberal Party’s platform. Family Needs and Finances Cut lowest income tax rate to 13.5% from 15% and cut the middle class tax rate to 21% (down from 22%) and to 25 % (down from 26 %). These deductions will be paid [...]

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Bloc Quebecois – Parenting and Family Issues

October 3, 2008




Family Needs and Finances Wish to promote “social solidarity” as it has been implemented in Quebec, including wealth sharing initiatives like seven dollar a day care, the Quebec Parental Leave Program that is more generous and more flexible than the EI based program that exists in the rest of Canada, affordable tuition, and other initiatives. [...]

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Parenting issues and the Canadian election

September 9, 2008




Canada goes to the polls on October 14! I can’t put my finger on why, but for some reason this election is tweaking my interest more than past ones have. And since I now have this parenting blog, I thought that a great way that I could get involved in the election, help inform my [...]

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