My daughter was one of the first students at My Whole Earth Academy back in 2014. At that time she…read moredidn't have very good English and had some sort of separation anxiety. Thanks to all teachers and especially Miss Jen for giving my daughter lots of attention and helping her to overcome that anxiety. My daughter has very good memories about her preschool. I always recommend My Whole Earth Academy to all my friends who are looking for professional child care.

Worst school experience, on our first day, my 19month child was playing with some musical…read moreinstruments and one the the teacher was afraid that my child will break it, so she grabbed the tambourine out of her hand and put it behind her......The teacher was playing a plastic box as a drum, and she's not worried if it will break since it's already half broken? My child is only 19 month and she took the chance to let her discover and learn, without teaching her with patience. After circle time that teacher stood up walking with out care and bumped into my child and kicked her into a very sharp table corner, dented her forehead and my child started bleeding. The whole classroom wasn't protected, but right after this happened they started to put up all the protection for sharp corners......I was very upset and disappointed. The principal also called me after, but her phone call made me felt worse, and she said she was going to check back with me and I never received another phone call from her! My child has a scar on her forehead and the dent is still there after more than a month. I have taken my child to many daycare and community center, and we are still waiting to be called on a few wait list, since this school has opening, I thought I could take her there for the time being, but This is the worst school we have been to, and I suggest moms that wants to apply think twice, because they are very unprofessional. If this system could let me choose no star, I wouldn't have given one！

Friendly and professional staff. They were on time and I had my results within 20 min. There is a…read morepublic bathroom that is shared with other businesses on their floor. I would highly recommend Iridia Medical for your Covid test needs.

From the owner: Iridia Medical is a leading provider of basic and advanced cardiac care training, having trained…read morethousands in the use of CPR and AED. As premier implementer of AED programs in Canadian workplaces, we also offer industry-leading defibrillators and SmartMan manikins. Remote care medical services is another area where Iridia looks to deliver the right care at the right time. Our team of physicians, paramedics, and OFA III's, as well as a fleet of mobile treatment centers and ambulances are there in remote work sites to promote and ensure health and safety. As one of Canada's Fastest Growing Companies, we continue to offer innovative solutions to eequip lay rescuers, health care professionals, and workplaces with the right tools and knowledge to save lives.

BE AWARE. If you buy 10 hour Study Space Pass from them, you have to use it within that year…read moreotherwise they will keep your money and unused sessions will expire. When you get the invoice from them it does not say anywhere that they expire and you are not going to get refund. My son had tutoring through them for the past three years. Paid $1360 every four weeks. Bought Study Space pass for my daughter that she end up never using it and it expired. You think they would contact me to tell me you have unused sessions that are expiring or asked me if I would like to transfer it to my son. No, money down the drain. On the other hand had excellent experience with Tutor Doctor with my daughter and tutors come to your home as opposed to you going to them. Rip off and no respect for loyalty or the amount of money you spent for tutoring with them.

Brainboost Education on West Broadway in Vancouver is at best a mediocre tutoring service…read more We contracted them to tutor our son, Kieran, in Language Arts and Math last summer. They provided us with an acceptable tentative schedule, but by the time he began school the classes and tutoring sessions we had agreed upon no longer existed. Instead we settle on Social and in about a further 4 month's time, they found a math tutor for our son. Unlike the class they had promised us the tutor costs $75 per hourly session. It's very difficult to find suitably qualified extra-curricular services for learning disabled students, even for those with dyslexia (a very common disability). Due to high pressure sales tactics, last minute scheduling changes and real insensitivity towards their clients requests we found BrainBoost much less amenable than other tutoring companies in the immediate Broadway West or MACKENZIE HEIGHTS/DUNBAR area. I feel now that it's much less of a school than a business and it provides only modest value for your hard-earned tutoring dollars. Please feel free to contact me for more specific recommendations if you have a learning disabled child. Giles Slade, PhD

We had my son at the VLC for 1 year. The staff are all fully certified teachers, are kind, and mean…read morewell. A couple of the teachers are older and have more experience. If your child is with them, they are fantastic and will likely do really well. The rest of the staff seem to be young, fresh out of teacher college, and regularly turn over. The premise of this place is that it is run by an Educational Psychologist who assesses all children before tutoring commences and designs a specific programme for each child to follow. While this was expensive, this is a great approach. Unfortunately, my experience was that the teachers are not trained in any sort of special ed, or multisensory learning. In fact I've heard them boast that they 'do their own thing.' Which is a shame, given the millions of dollars of research-based interventions available that they are refusing to educate themselves with. The teachers have some ideas, and do their best with the in-house tools, but in our case they fell short entirely due to lack of actual training. Kids who struggle in school don't struggle because they need more of the same. They struggle because they need a different approach. I did not find this here. The centre makes a big deal about brain plasticity and neurology...but what I saw was a dated programme, with no evidence of any of the new research in this field that has come out in the past 20 years. They do have some interesting cognitive training programmes. I was pretty excited about them to start with, but it became clear that they are not research-based. Based on the research I have read on these type of 'brain training' programmes, they are unlikely to have any measurable effect, except perhaps to improve scores on the WISC intelligence test as they are very similar to the tests within that assessment. If your child just needs a bit of extra 1:1 support, then the VLC is a good place to get it. Frankly, if this is the case, go find yourself a good tutor off craigslist or use the teachers tutoring service for half the cost. If your child has an LD, I suggest you find someone who is trained in modern, research-based strategies who can intervene and help your child catch up with his/her peers. One benefit of being part of the VLC was the extraordinary amount of service we received from the Ed Psych. She really cares about her kids, and attended a school meeting with us without charging us a dime for her time. Unfortunately, we were saddened to discover that once we left we were completely cut off from support from her. We requested to pay for her time, but she wouldn't even return our emails. I couldn't believe it, after all the money we had spent at the place! Due to this, we lost 6 more months before my child was able to have the IEP he needed to be supported properly at school, plus we had to pay out of pocket for another psychologist. If you choose to send your child here, make sure that someone is doing regular progress testing with your child, to track that they are improving at a rate that will enable them to catch up with their peers. Otherwise, you are simply paying a higher rate for regular tutoring.

This is an awesome place! The coaches at the VLC teach my…read morechild strategies to overcome weaknesses and to encourage talents to blossom. All coaches are compassionate and caring - the VLC is the highlight of my child's week.

The program that I was a part of consisted of two parts, the first being three in-class learning…read moresessions and the second being ten in-car driving sessions. The in-class learning sessions were fine, although they did occur very early on Saturday mornings (and I vaguely remember dozing off many times). They were informative and interesting, and memorable enough to be of some help while driving. The second was the in-car lessons. Although the information provided in the driving lessons was good, the instructor (Don) was fantastic and the lessons were fine overall, one glaring problem I found was with scheduling. One of the things that attracts people to YD lessons is the promise that a successful completion knocks six months off the time needed to graduate from your "N" stage of driving. At my first lesson, my instructor told me that generally, lessons are scheduled three to four weeks apart. Ten lessons, three or four weeks apart is about six months of lessons. The lessons aren't scheduled regularly (i.e. every Tuesday at 4 or every Sunday at 11), rather they are randomly plotted on the calendar. There is no way to see your schedule, so more than once I had to cancel a lesson because something else had come up and there was no way for me to see when my next lesson was. The quality of YD lessons is lovely, but their organizational issues made it not worth it for me. Only use YD if you are in no rush to learn to drive.

Horrible experience, lessons are unable to be booked any longer than 3 lessons in advance. Though…read morewe were able to book lessons in advance in late July, policies changed making us unable to tell if the lessons would be completed before my test. The instructor canceled lessons multiple times throughout the weeks of my lessons and when calling the office, I was told that rescheduling would not be possible at the moment. As for the online portion of the lessons, a timer was set so that i would have to wait something like three minutes before i was able to flip to the next slide. I would get it if the timer was even remotely close to how long it should take to read some of the slides but seriously, the text was maybe two sentences no way anyone takes that look to read it. The videos attached to the slides also looked like they were from the 1800's testing us on the death of this guys dad (seriously?) I have only completed three in car lessons but from that I can say the following: -The car stinks like BUTT -There is a crack in the windshield and a service light on (which can't be good for the test) -The steering wheel is sticky -My instructor has been more than 10 min late on multiple occasions (Three lessons by the way) -And my instructor straight up doesn't instruct, half the time shes on her phone Overall, just go someone else for your lessons, I don't want to sound soft and complainy but seriously, this place sucks

I had my daughter last year in the smash and swim camp. She was 5 years old. I found the kids…read morerunning the program had attitude, did not make eye contact or acknowledge the parents. I attended one lunch to see how my daughter was. The instructors were all sitting in a circle talking while the kids were running around outside on the field. I couldn't see my 5 yr old which happened to be around the building! So on hot dog day which is normally on Fridays (last day of camp), I attended that too. There was a room full of kids eating hot dogs and no one was supervising them. There was no one in the room! (Hot dogs are high risk choking food). This year I enrolled both my kids thinking the camp was run better. My kids were sent home a notice that Friday was hot dog day (a donation from save on foods) so don't bring a lunch just a snack. Hot dog day was cancelled and my kids had no lunch-no one called me or told me. Apparently when I called, they were very sorry we weren't informed that hot dog day was cancelled because the camp organizer forgot to organize the BBQ!! So $600 (300 each kid for camp) would have had better spent somewhere else.

So, this is my first time ever reviewing anything on the internet. This is how strongly I feel…read moreabout my not-so-great experience with UBC Daycamps 2011. My child went to soccer camp and theater camp that summer, and in both cases it was very stressful on both of us. My child is very enthusiastic and excited about activities, and he can get a little over--keen sometimes (get very chatty). I agree with the previous reviewer that both camps were very chaotic. As if that's not issue at all (once I found two kids completely unsupervised in the gym area while the only one leader was with the rest of the kids in the bathroom area), in the first camp the leader talked to me after class, in a very stern voice, that my child has to behave and conform to the activities. When I asked what the problem was, her reply was that basically he was too keen and wanted to volunteer for everything, or something of that sort. Her approach wasn't professional at all (she talked to me in front of my child). Later I found out that she talked to at least two more parents in that similar manner. Of course, the stigma was on, and I had a really hard time convincing my son to go back the next day. The relationship only deteriorated, well because my child felt singled out for being a "bad kid" and we barely made it through the week. I had to take him because I was working. So, we thought the soccer camp would be better next week. No, it was even a greater disappointment. This time the leader was a younger female, and had similar problems with my child. I know 4-year olds can be difficult but calling me twice from work because my son didn't want to participate in an activity (NOT because he was being disruptive)? Come on! He was only 4, and the youngest in the group. Some of the activities were too challenging for him. My son has been in daycare since age 1 and in numerous other camps, classes etc. NEVER, never did we get any complaints about his behavior. In short, when you register to UBC Camps, you have to remember that the leaders are undergrads and not pedagogues. In fact, some of them might not know anything about children at all. Register at your own risk and don't expect much supervision or conflict resolution skills. Having said that, we had a great experience with UBC Aquatics Camps this year. I strongly recommend that. They run through a different body. The leaders seem to know more about kids there.