Parent tips to cost $2.7m
The Province
November 22, 2006

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VANCOUVER - Parents and child-care providers will be given tips on tutoring children in play and literacy through a series of manuals and training programs costing taxpayers $2.7 million.

"There's about 576,000 children under six today [in B.C.]. We want each of them to develop lifelong appreciation for activity," Linda Reid, Minister of State for Children, said yesterday....