Toronto’s FoodShare, a food justice organization, is making waves with helping BIPOC and newcomer communities but is up against funding cuts and COVID-19-related restrictions.
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How a Brampton Non-Profit Battles Rising Food Insecurity
The extended economic impacts of COVID-19 have highlighted the issue of food insecurity in Canada, especially among marginalized people. One Brampton man has created a program to help those affected by giving them access to fresh organic produce.
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Standing with India’s Protesting Farmers
Columnist Jagdeesh Mann writes on the Punjab farmers’ protest and how it isn’t as far removed from our shores as Canadians may believe.
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Adam Skelly is No Champion for Small Business
Columnist Marcus Medford writes on Etobicoke restaurant owner’s entitled behaviour and decision to open his restaurant for indoor dining despite COVID-19 restrictions.
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Reviving Chinatown Restaurants
Toronto professor and chef Leo Chan has plans to revive the slowing business in Chinatown and preserve the area’s history on a digital archive.
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Ushering in the new Health Age
At the age of 60, quitting a well-paying job to refinance her townhouse and start an entrepreneurial venture was the last thing Helen Poon’s friends thought she would do. But Helen did just that, setting out to…
View More Ushering in the new Health AgeHow do you Build Healthy, Connected Communities? Start with Dignified Spaces
The first thing you notice when you walk into the light-drenched main room at Calgary’s The Alex Community Food Centre is the promise written in loopy script above the open kitchen: “Good food is just…
View More How do you Build Healthy, Connected Communities? Start with Dignified SpacesWar Over “Authentic” Vietnamese Cuisine
People take pride in the food they eat, and ethnic communities especially form and retain their identities around their traditional cuisines. What’s Italian without pasta? Or Thai without their Tom Yum Goong? For the Vietnamese,…
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Healthy Eating Not Just for White, Wealthy: Author
A trip to an organic dairy farm in Ontario was enough to inspire a former Wall Street banker to launch a global search for better ways to treat farm animals. “This was an organic farm,…
View More Healthy Eating Not Just for White, Wealthy: AuthorNewcomers Can Benefit from Adding Salmon to Diet
A new food guide combines recipes from British Columbia’s immigrant communities with local seafood options to teach new Canadians how to incorporate B.C. fish into a healthy diet. “You have chefs from all over the…
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