UN Right to Food Mission Coming to Canada

May 4, 2012

The United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter,  is undertaking a formal country May 6-16th, 2012.

Making the link between Canada’s current failure to respect, protect and fulfill the right to food for all  – and the need for the People’s Food Policy – is a powerful message to bring to our elected officials and the media across the country at this key time.

During the mission, the SR and his team will meet with the Government of Canada and key stakeholders related to the right to food, including Indigenous peoples’ representatives, civil society organizations and a wide spectrum of organizations and experts involved in food issues. Read more »

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$10 Eating Challenge: May Issue

May 3, 2012

It’s that time of month again! Check out the May issue of The Ontario Table‘s $10 Eating Challenge.

Read about:

  • Seasonal Eating in May
  • Organic Food in Ontario
  • May Is the International Month of Cooperatives
  • Ontario’s Second Sweet Harvest: Honey
  • May’s Local Food Events

Check it out here: The Ontario Table – May Issue

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Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Connections in Healthcare

May 2, 2012

Photo Courtesy of Ross Memorial Hospital

Free Public Panel Discussion and Webinar

Tuesday May 15th, 2012

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Toronto City Hall, Committee Room 2

100 Queen Street West, Toronto ON

Eventbrite - Strengthening Local Food Connections in Healthcare

Please join Food Forward, Sustain Ontario, and Farm to Cafeteria Canada for a panel discussion about local food success stories in Toronto healthcare facilities.

Join our inspirational panel of speakers in a conversation about how their innovative healthcare food initiatives and experiences have brought more fresh, local and sustainable food to healthcare facilities across Toronto. 

Registration for the event is FREE but donations to Food Forward will be accepted at the door. If you are unable to attend in person, Sustain Ontario will be providing a FREE Webinar service. (Click to register!)  Registration closes May 14th. Read more »

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Biking for Bellies

May 1, 2012

After attending the City to Country ‘Food in Schools’ tour last September, Kimberly Davidson was inspired to create Biking for Bellies, a fundraising event created to support school nutrition programs across the Greater Toronto Region.

This year cyclists are biking in support of Thorncliffe Park Public School’s meal program, the largest school meal program in North America. This 2 day event will be taking place August 4th – 5th. Cyclists will be riding 200km from Thorncliffe Park Public School, through the Kawarthas, to Bobcaygeon.

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Celebrate Local, Sustainable Food & Drink this May!

April 30, 2012

During the month of May, Patagonia Toronto will open its doors to the Toronto community to celebrate the best of Ontario’s local food and drink through a series of evening events.

May’s food-focused events will be held at the store on Thursday evenings between 6pm and 8pm and will be complemented with a series of ‘Enviro Saturday’ events.

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The Ontario Food and Nutrition Consultation has launched!

April 24, 2012

We’re excited to announce that the Ontario Food and Nutrition Strategy Consultation has launched!

How to Participate:

1)   Read the strategy.

2)  Respond: Note which suggestions you support, oppose, or would suggest changes to. Add your own ideas for policy and action. The deadline for submissions is MAY 31, 2012.

3)   Submit your feedback through the web forms. Give us your feedback (big and small!) – from broad themes to word-smithing. If you REALLY, REALLY can’t use the web form, you may provide your feedback to strategy@sustainontario.ca

4)   Review the revised Strategy in June 2012.

How to organize community or group feedback:

We encourage you to review the strategy as a group and discuss it together. We hope that bringing a group together to discuss this will benefit you in thinking about your own work and your own food system. We welcome group submissions. To make it easy we’re providing some resources to help you organize your own consultation event.

1)   Use the materials provided and your own materials  to gather feedback on the strategy.

2)   Input the information into the web forms. If that is too difficult, you can mail the hard copies to Sustain Ontario at 365-401 Richmond St. W; Toronto, ON; M5V 3A8.

Thank you for the work that you do and for your participation. We look forward to hearing from you!

If the links in this email do not work, for you, please visit http://sustainontario.com/initiatives/ontario-food-and-nutrition-strategy

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