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There are 17,325 kids aged 5 and under in the city I live in, and room for less than 1/3rd of them in child care. That’s the finding of the 2008 Victoria’s Vital Signs report released this week by the Victoria Foundation, a local non-profit group dedicated to strengthening the community in the city I [...]

Rick Mercer (Canada’s Stephen Colbert – or is Stephen the US Rick Mercer?) rocks. This probably won’t make much sense to my US friends, but I am sure you have enough of your own political humour to occupy you right now.

On October 14th, Canadians go to the polls to elect a new federal government. For parents with small children, child care is a key issue in the election. Here’s a quick rundown of what the 4 major national parties (Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Green) are promising in terms of Child Care.
Conservative
When it comes to child [...]

A couple of very local notes in this post. First, a big thank you to all the municipal politicians who decided last year to ban the sale of fireworks at Halloween. For the first time since arriving here 14 years ago, it didn’t feel like I was living in a war zone. The kids slept [...]

Dadventure and fellow Dad blogger Vancouver Dad were featured in an article about Dad bloggers in the Vancouver Province over the weekend.
The reporter, Matthew Ramsey, contacted me last week about the story. One of the things that he told me that was new information to me was the new Stats Can figures that show the [...]