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CRACKDOWN! – Lifting the Ban on City Hens

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 7:00pm

Location

William Doo Auditorium (UofT)
45 Wilcocks Street (& Spadina) 5$ on Eventbrite, 8$ at door, or PWYC (see description)
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 40.7124" N, 79° 24' 4.6476" W

Join us for an exclusive preview screening of CRACKDOWN! followed by an expert panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of keeping hens in the city as a part of the urban food movement.

In the wake of the 100-mile diet and the public’s increasing desire for local and organic food, Crackdown! tells the story of Canada’s urban chicken keepers, a smart, savvy and rapidly-growing band of mavericks who just want access to fresh eggs at home for their families. It is a short, creative documentary-style video that takes a satirical look at what it means to raise chickens in your backyard – and become a criminal for doing so.

Redeye

Food prices driven up by speculation

September 24, 2012
| Large food companies say that steep increases in the price of staple foods are the result of natural causes like drought. A new report says commodity trading is the culprit.
Length: 15:52 minutes minutes (14.54 MB)

Fundraiser for Honduran Farmers - Run for Biodiversity in Victoria, B.C.

Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012 - 6:30am - 12:30pm

Location

Menzies at Kingston Victoria, BC
Canada
48° 25' 42.3156" N, 123° 21' 56.3184" W

Hi, this is an invitation for runners and walkers to join USC Canada in this year's Run for Biodiversity in Victoria BC on October 7.

It is a fun, healthy, fundraising project in support of seed-saving farmers in Honduras.

Full details can be seen here: http://usc-canada.org/run-for-biodiversity/victoria/    

Thanks.

David Rain

Legacy Gifts and Donor Recognition

Coordinator, Run for Biodiversity

USC Canada
56 Sparks Street, Suite 705
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1P 5B1


Tel: 1-613-234-6827, ext 231

Fax: 1-613-234-6842

Fundraiser for Honduran Farmers - Run for Biodiversity in Toronto

Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 8:30am - 3:00pm

Location

Nathan Phillips Square Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W

Hi, this is an invitation for runners and walkers to join USC Canada in this year's Run for Biodiversity in Toronto on October 14.

It is a fun, healthy, fundraising project in support of seed-saving farmers in Honduras.

Full details can be seen here: http://usc-canada.org/run-for-biodiversity/toronto/

Thanks.

David Rain

Legacy Gifts and Donor Recognition

Coordinator, Run for Biodiversity

USC Canada
56 Sparks Street, Suite 705
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1P 5B1

 

July 4, 2012 |
Supply management is the system we use here in Canada to make sure that there is always enough for Canadian consumers, and so we don’t end up dumping excess production down the drain.
Columnists

A number is never just a number: Food for thought

Farmer's market. Photo: Marc Smith/flickr

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1948

The year the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines the human right to food. That right is more clearly spelled out in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to which Canada signed on in 1976. (Source)

1981

Hunger in the North: Witnessing food insecurity in Nunavut

Youth show their visitor just how hard to is to afford sufficient nutritious food.

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On May 16, 2012 the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, released his preliminary report after his visit to Canada. The Special Rapporteur "was disconcerted by the deep and severe food insecurity faced by aboriginal peoples across Canada living both on- and off-reserve in remote and urban areas."

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Why our food is making us fat

Hint: High Fructose Corn Syrup

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The story begins in 1971. Richard Nixon was facing re-election. The Vietnam war was threatening his popularity at home, but just as big an issue with voters was the soaring cost of food. If Nixon was to survive, he needed food prices to go down, and that required getting a very powerful lobby on board – the farmers. Nixon appointed Earl Butz, an academic from the farming heartland of Indiana, to broker a compromise. Butz, an agriculture expert, had a radical plan that would transform the food we eat, and in doing so, the shape of the human race.

NSCAD lecture series: Sow to Sew

Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location

Lunenburg Academy Building
97 Kaulbach Street
Lunenburg , NS B0J 2C0
Canada
44° 22' 47.424" N, 64° 18' 47.034" W

A public lecture by Gary Markle for Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD):

"What do slow food and slow fashion have in common? We can grow them right here! It looks like the future of fashion might belong to regions like Nova Scotia with strong links to land and people. Join NSCAD's Gary Markle for a lecture making the case for a "time warp" approach to a renewable industry that's in our hands and under our feet."

UN report bolsters Canada's right to food movement

Food Secure Canada has been calling on the government to take action. (Photo: http://foodsecurecanada.org)

"Canada has long been seen as a land of plenty. Yet today one in ten families with a child under six is unable to meet their daily food needs. These rates of food insecurity are unacceptable, and it is time for Canada to adopt a national right to food strategy." - Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. 

Yesterday Olivier De Schutter concluded his first official visit to Canada as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, a whirlwind fact-finding mission and tour across the country conducted on the invitation of the Canadian Government.

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