📣Webinar Opportunity: North Shore educators, are you interested in teaching about food & nutrition? Take part in the Teach Food First Toolkit for Educators webinar, November 30 at 3:30 PM. Learn more & register by emailing: [email protected] #foodliteracy #BCEd

Food drives are not the answer to poverty and hunger thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

Thank you, MP Don Davies, for introducing Bill C-212, the School Food Program for Children Act in Parliament to advance a #SchoolFoodProgram for Canada! 🙏 We look forward to seeing every school-aged child and youth has a healthy meal or snack at school every day. 🎉

(1/4) Did you know that today, December 16, 2021, marks the first time that a commitment to developing a School Food Program for Canada appears in two mandate letters, one to Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and one to Minister Karina Gould ⁉️

Another good reason to shop at farmer's markets.

This in a country that signed on to & ratified the right to food: "... 57 per cent of Canadians reported having a difficult time feeding their family recently, an increase from 36 per cent when the question was last asked in 2019." ctvnews.ca/canada/nearly-…

The solution to food insecurity is ensuring adequate income to meet basic needs. This is where government focus should be, not funding food charity assuming it resolves the problem. Reflections on government directions in Lindsay Campbell Maclean’s Magazine article macleans.ca/society/a-glar…

Opinion: Rising food prices emphasize need to grow and process more in the Shuswap saobserver.net/columns/opinio…

"When we support the health of students through intentional decisions—whether that be through food procurement or curriculum design—we can better support the health of people and planet all at once." sustainontario.com/2022/03/15/how…

Don calls for a national school nutrition program youtu.be/H0_--3z2FiM via YouTube

HAPPENING NOW: A large fire has broken out at a building in #Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood bit.ly/3jx2epC

North Okanagan farms dig regenerative agriculture vernonmorningstar.com/opinion/north-…

'Layer upon layer of issues': Grocery bills climb as food inflation rate hits 6.5 per cent ctvnews.ca/business/layer…

The Cost of Food. Canada's inflation rate jumps to 31-year high of 6.7% and the country's farmers are feeling it. Serena Caner, executive director of ShuswapFoodAction Food Action Society, says Canada is losing its farmers. And it's costing all of us. cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

The #GoC launched a public consultation to get feedback on its approach to build healthy, sustainable & equitable food systems. By contributing to the consultation, you can influence #FoodPolicy in 🇨🇦. See how you can provide input here: foodsecurecanada.org/resources-news…

B.C. farmer plows under 'dream' crop, worries he won't be able to start over after catastrophic flood bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-farmer-plo…

Makes sense, getting 60-70% of calories from ultra processed foods somehow seems plenty… 😉 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

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Let Food Bring Us Together sd83.bc.ca/2023/05/04/let… via School District 83