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2011 Greenbelt Holiday Gift Guide
From Adventure and Fashion to Feel Good Food: The 2011 Guide to Gifts from the Greenbelt Tie a ribbon around a gift from the Greenbelt this holiday season. Ontario’s Greenbelt, spanning from Niagar...
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Stop Canada from legalizing contamination from unapproved GM foods.
Deadline November 25 The Canadian Government is proposing to allow contamination of our food supply with genetically engineered foods that have not been approved for safe eating in Canada. Agriculture...
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Job Posting: Replication Fundraising Co-ordinator
Over the past three decades, The Stop Community Food Centre has transformed from one of North America’s first food banks to a vibrant community food centre in one of Toronto’s lowest-inc...
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FRESH the movie!
FRESH is coming this week and next, and we can’t wait to show it to you! Plan to attend a film showing and local food tasting at the location nearest to you: Thursday, October 13th: 7:00 –...
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World Food Day Events, October 2011
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Planet in Focus: Enjoy Your Meal!
The Planet in Focus 12th Annual Environmental Film Festival is fast approaching! Sustain Ontario is pleased to be co-presenting the films Enjoy Your Meal! and The Past As Future on October 15th at the...
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What We’ve Been Served: Food And Farming Issues In The Election Platforms
by Lauren Baker Farming, food processing and food retail is the second largest economic sector in Ontario, generating sales of well over $40 billion per year. Yet farmers are going out of business, ur...
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Harvesting The Full Value of Farmers’ Produce
by Bryan Gilvesy, YU Ranch owner and Norfolk ALUS Whenever we look ahead to the future of food and farming, the clear challenge is feeding up to 9 billion citizens across the globe. The prevailing wis...
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Three Wins for Local and Sustainable Food
By Farrah Khan, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment No matter who leads our province after the October 6th election, we need to send a message to our politicians about the importanc...
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Better Health is Worth Your Vote
This election, the Heart and Stroke Foundation is engaging voters and candidates across the province in the goal of creating a healthier province. What is unique about the Healthy Candidates campaign ...
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Ontario’s food processing sector is an important economic cluster
Michael Wolfson, the City of Toronto’s Economic Food & Beverage Sector Advisor, had this to say about the economic importance of Ontario’s Processing sector: Having been involved in ...
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Supporting New Farmers
Agricultural Renewal means supporting a new generation of farmers in Ontario. by Christie Young, Director of FarmStart We are facing a very real crisis of renewal in agriculture within the next 10 yea...