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Northern NDP MPs Formally Request Auditor General Investigate Nutrition North
George Lessard | Six Northern New Democrat MPs have written to Auditor General Michael Ferguson after all three territorial legislative assemblies voted unanimously for an audit of the Con’s failed Nutrition North
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Addressing the crisis of poverty and hunger in the U.S.
Amy Goodman | Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr. launched his Poor People's Campaign, poverty is again at crisis levels in the U.S.
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NWT, Nunavut and Yukon call for federal audit of Nutrition North
George Lessard | "You've got the Nunavut government, now our government of the N.W.T., the Yukon government, telling the government something is wrong. I think that should be a strong signal there's something wrong...
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The price of sugar in Clyde River, Nunavut?
George Lessard | You think the cost of living is high where you live? Check out how much it costs in Nunavut!
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March against Monsanto: Global day of action to 'take back the food supply'
Lauren McCauley | Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.
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Earth Day 2013: Land for food under attack worldwide
Sally Miller | As Earth Day 2013 rolls around, a frenzy of land grabbing threatens our food supply, Indigenous land use practices, access to water and the future of farming.
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Industry voices dominate at Canadian Food Summit
Hannah Renglich | On April 9 and 10, the Conference Board of Canada hosted their 2nd Canadian Food Summit in Toronto -- with industry interests most prominently featured in all of the presentations and panels.
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Desertification is too important for Canada to ignore
David Suzuki | When Canada became the only country to abandon the UN Desertification Convention, it didn't just further isolate itself on the world stage; it also showed a disregard for the risks of drought at home.
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Reducing Canada's food security deficit: UN report outlines key policy recommendations
Hannah Renglich | Earlier this month, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, made a number of recommendations for addressing food security in Canada.
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rabble roundup: What babble's been talking about
rabble staff | Topics of discussion on rabble.ca's discusion forum, babble.
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FoodShare Webcast of UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Report.
UN food envoy: Canadian government failing Indigenous peoples and the poor
Hannah Renglich | The report includes a section devoted to Indigenous peoples and their disproportionate vulnerability to food insecurity, diet-related illness and lack of access to land and traditional foods.
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Horsemeat 'scandal' is product of a repellant global food system
John Sorenson | The discovery of horseflesh in a number of otherwise-labelled meat products in Europe is being described as a scandal but it is an entirely predictable result of industrialized animal exploitation.