Progress on a Food Guide, but not on food insecurity
In the lead up to the release of Health Canada’s newest Canada Food Guide, people across the country were mired in debates about nutrition, sustainability, and food security.
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Unequal systems: food access and prejudice in Canada
Does this sound familiar to you: “the only reason that poor people are so unhealthy is that they don’t know how to eat a healthy diet”?
Take Action on Poverty This October 17th!
This week we have a video blog from ChewOnThis! organizer Adam Vasey with the Downtown Mission of Windsor on how the campaign can engage people in your community to be part of the growing movement from coast-to-coast-to-coast to take national…
Can we lead on human rights when so many are hungry?
In a country with the 11th highest Gross Domestic Product, it can be hard for some to understand the harsh reality that people in Canada are going hungry. But over the past few weeks it seems as though people across…
Investing in Students: Not Only a Dollars Game
Investing in Students: Not Only a Dollars Game Nearly 40% of students in Canada are food insecure. This can be experienced in many ways, ranging from not having enough money to purchase meals, skipping meals, or not eating nutritious foods.
A Change in Recipe: Hunger Count 2016 Released
Imagine being faced with a daily decision to either pay your monthly rent, purchase winter jackets for your children, send a cheque for the hydro bill, or buy groceries. This is the reality for over four million people in Canada…
Poverty and the precarity generation.
“It’s going to happen. We have to accept that.” That’s what Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the other day about the future of precarious employment – contract work, short-term roles without benefits, and “gig economy” jobs (think: driving for Uber)…
Thousands Across Canada Call for Federal Action on Poverty
Thousands Across Canada Call for Federal Action on Poverty Volunteers call for forthcoming national anti-poverty plan to assure the rights of people in living in poverty For Immediate Release Ottawa, ON, October 17, 2016 — Over 850,000 people in Canada…
Is Canada on the cusp of change for people living in poverty?
Is Canada on the cusp of change for 4.9 million people living in poverty? This October, an important policy commitment has begun to take shape that could affect the lives of almost 5 million people in Canada, including 1.3 million…
$10 for a bag of potatoes. $8 for a bag of apples.
$10 for a bag of potatoes. $8 for a bag of apples. $10 for a bag of flour. That’s what residents in Northern Ontario in communities from Timmins to Attawapiskat pay for supermarket staples, according to a recent report from…
We’re All Paying the Price for Hunger in Canada
By Zoey Feder, Carleton School of Social Work Student Food insecurity is straining the Canadian health care system. A new study, which followed almost 68 000 adult Ontarians, has found that lack of access to sufficient and healthy food is…
ChewOnThis! 2015 is around the Corner: We need your help
We Need You to Help End Poverty in Canada. This October, Dignity for All supporters will be taking to the streets for the third annual ChewOnThis! Campaign. This fall, ChewOnThis! will bring together hundreds of volunteers from food banks, schools,…