Tickets for Toronto Premiere of “To Make a Farm” now available online
Tickets $12 on-line or $13 at the door.
Open Call for Student Presenters
On August 17th, 18th, and 19th, student leaders from across Canada will descend upon Hart House at the University of Toronto to discuss the Future of Food on Campus.
In preparation for hosting the National Student Food Summit 2012, Meal Exchange is currently hosting an open call for student leaders to relate their experiences in being involved with interesting and innovative student food projects. If you or any students you know fit this bill, please feel free to contact us with information about that student food project by accessing the form provided in the link below.
For more details, visit here.
Recording of Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Solutions in Healthcare Now Available!
On May 15th, Food Forward and Sustain Ontario brought together Health Care innovators to share the successes and challenges they’ve experienced in introducing local foods to patient menus and experiences.
Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Connectons in Healthcare from Sustain Ontario on Vimeo.
Note: Audio levels improve after about 10 minutes of the video. Read more to see the presenters’ powerpoint slides.
UN envoy blasts Canada for ‘self-righteous’ attitude over hunger, poverty
Canada needs to drop its “self-righteous” attitude about how great a country it is and start dealing with its widespread problem of food insecurity, the United Nations right-to-food envoy says.
In a hard-hitting interview this week with Postmedia News, Olivier De Schutter also blasted Canada for its “appallingly poor” record of taking recommendations from UN human-rights bodies seriously.
De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, has been on an 11-day mission to Canada, his first to a developed country.
For further details, visit here.
Food security: Why hunger is a farm issue
A nation that cannot feed itself is a nation that is inherently food insecure. Welcome to Canada, 21st Century.
Canada is a nation that imports almost as much food as it exports. In many cases the same products go out and come in. It is a nation that has systematically encouraged food supply from long distances. It has discouraged mixed crop regionally based farmers in favour of large-scale consolidation of agricultural production, mostly for export. More than food security (everyone gets to eat) we need food sovereignty (where we retain control of our food supply).
To read more about this issue, visit here.
Summer Job with WEFC
Local Food Children’s Programming Assistant
The focus of this position will be to develop and manage food focused children’s activities at the Sorauren Farmers market every Monday. The candidate will also work with our Market Manager to support special event coordination and other market activities. Due to the small and innovative nature of the organization the candidate will also be expected to assist at times with other co-op initiatives and food education programming including: community kitchen programming, food preservation workshops, fundraising events, and food hub activities.
We are looking for a self starter, who has experience and enjoys working with kids, loves cooking, is passionate about food and is able to work some evenings and the occasional weekend. Read more »