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Local food movements and food justice initiatives crop up in Canada
Canada is seeing a surge of food justice initiatives to combat systemic racism in food systems and local food movements to take on food security problems.If the border closed: Food, farming, forests...
View ArticleGlobal civil society celebrates failure of talks at World Trade Organization
Yesterday in Geneva, WTO Director General Roberto Azevêdo announced that governments have failed to reach agreement on a "Bali package" in advance of the December 3-6 Ministerial meeting in that city....
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Tackle Food Security in Your Community
Publish Date: December 13, 2013Summary: A toolkit for creating more sustainable communities fruit-vegetable-mosaic.jpgIf you’re interested in food security issues in your community, and ready to take...
View ArticleThe Pope, the WTO, food security and locking in 'a new tyranny' of the market
Thank you Burghard Ilge of the Netherlands-based development NGO Both Ends for sharing this Vatican statement on the WTO Ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia last week. Pope Francis has made his...
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The battle to privatize life in Canada
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 If UPOV '91 is pushed through this winter by the Harper government, it would be another victory for the transnational companies, like Monsanto, that seek to privatize...
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Interview with author, farmer and activist Michael Abelman
nni_-_abelman_interview_final.mp3The City of Vancouver, B.C. is having a food revolution.For the past three years urban farms and gardens have expanded across the city to strengthen local food...
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Community Gardens
Publish Date: April 3, 2014Summary: A how-to guide for starting a community garden via itzafineday, Creative CommonsEach spring, as the snow melts and the grass begins to poke through, there are new...
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Loss of agricultural land threatens food security
rey-2014-04-04a.mp3The Agricultural Land Reserve was set up in the 1970s to protect prime farming land from development. Now there are rumours that the provincial government is planning to dismantle...
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Community gardening with BUGS
community_gardening_mixdown_2.mp3In this episode of Constructing Change, I chatted with two leaders of BUGS -- the Bytowne Urban Gardens -- in downtown Ottawa. Myka Riopel and Pamela Scaiff are the...
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Hollow food: How increased CO2 levels are making food less nutritious
Thursday, May 15, 2014Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels will make many key food crops like rice and corn less nutritious, a new study shows.Important food crops will contain lower levels of zinc and...
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Earth democracy: A lecture by Vandana Shiva
earth_democracy_-_vandana_shiva_part_1.mp3"We know that the industrial model of farming is destroying the planet," says antiglobalization author, environmentalist and eco feminist Dr. Vandana Shiva in...
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Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All National Assembly
Thu, Nov 13, 2014 Hundreds of food leaders from across Canada will converge in Halifax November 13-16, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada's eighth National Assembly....
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Ride4RealFood
Sun, Sep 14, 2014 A bike ride for food security for low income folks in Toronto Ride4RealFood 2014 - Sunday, September 14thWe all need food. Unfortunately eating fresh, healthy and local food is not...
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Ottawa Food: 'A Hungry Capital' book launch at West End Well
Wed, Oct 29, 2014 Don Chow and Jennifer Lim, authors of Ottawa Food, A Hungry Capitol, and bloggers for Food Prints tackle an array of topics in this book ranging from our local food system to...
View ArticleFamily farms need better policies in Canada and globally
Family farms need better policies in Canada and globally Many international studies have confirmed how critical family farming is to food security, yet small and medium sized farms in developing and...
View ArticleWhat Nunavut's MP doesn’t know about poverty in her riding but the auditor...
Feeding My Family Facebook Group August 16, 2013 - 6:42 amPhoto: Feeding my Family holds Iqaluit food protest Aug. 15DAVID MURPHY 16 Aug 2013 ...Leesee Papatsie (right) cheers on honking cars opposite...
View ArticleIf the South Were the North: the frontline of climate change in Canada
In 2008 I visited Isabella Bay, Nunavut, a renowned sanctuary for whales. On a sparkling Arctic day, I wrote, “I noticed that there were at least eight whales moving around the bay… We watched [them]…...
View ArticleGiving to charity is not enough: How to make a difference this holiday season
This op-ed by yours truly was published inThe Province. The examples are B.C.-specific, but the message is much broader: donating to charity is not enough, we also have to change the status quo that...
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Ignorance gave me ableism: This week's Blogs roundup
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Hunting for solutions to the Nunavut food-cost crisis
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Beyond the supermarket crisis and its attendant policy, communities in Nunavut are sparking long-lasting change through food secure initiatives. Are we paying attention? Like...
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