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Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada’s 8th National Assembly
From Food Secure Canada: Join hundreds of food leaders from across Canada as they converge on Halifax November 13-16th, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food ...
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Canada Selected for Sustainable Beef Pilot Project
McDonald’s is embarking on a ‘sustainable’ beef pilot project that has the Canadian Cattlemen Association (CCA) excited about the prospects for the Canadian cattle market. McDonald&#...
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Slow Money Trickles into Vancouver
There’s a new type of investment concept coming to Vancouver – Slow Money Investing. Slow Money is an organization and a movement that has recently been brought over from the U.S. The ide...
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The NDP Presents Their ‘Pan-Canadian Food Strategy’
The NDP has recently launched a document outlining their Pan-Canadian food strategy. The document, Everybody Eats: Our Vision for a Pan-Canadian Food Strategy, follows the party’s 2011 Electio...
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FoodWork Local Food Jobs
FoodWork, which showcases local and sustainable food job opportunities on their website, provides a great tool for organizations to spread news about job postings. The opportunity is amplifie...
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ALUS Bayham Establishes First Demonstration Farm
From ALUS: On June 6th, 2014 ALUS Bayham, celebrated the establishment of their first demonstration farm. The farm, M&R Orchards produces several varieties of apples and is operated by Helmut...
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People: Effecting Change – Volume 7 of Greenbelt Fund Green Papers
From the Greenbelt Fund: The Greenbelt Fund has released Volume 7 of its Green Papers series called “People: Effecting Change” Public institutions are large, often complex organizations th...
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Urban Farm Request for Expression of Interest
From McQuesten Urban Farm The McQuesten Urban Farm invites any members to consider urban farming on approximately 1.5 acres of land at their McQuesten Urban Farm Site. They are located in the east...
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The Healthiest Province: French Advocacy Toolkit
The Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) has just produced the French version of the Make Ontario the Healthiest Province advocacy toolkit: Faire de l’Ontario la province la p...
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Grass Fed Beef: Pasture Walk & Talk
Join the diverse discussion, Grass Fed Beef: Pasture Walk and Talk, on June 11th 2014. This event follows the recent 1st annual “Carving our Niche: Growing the Grass Fed Beef Market” ...
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Will Party Leaders Support Food And Farming In Ontario?
Provincial cross-sectoral alliance asks political leaders about how they will commit to strengthening Ontario’s food and farming system Last Friday, in a media release, Sustain Ontario sent 11 quest...
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Closing the Gap Between Community, Food & Economics: Frieburg, Germany
Many of us are unable to deny the dynamic connection that food has to economics. Too often though, what seems to be missing from this connection, is the role of community. Garden Earth, recently wro...