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Stuffed & Starved/ Food Sovereignty/ The Canadian Wheatboard

Thumbnail image for Stuffed & Starved/ Food Sovereignty/ The Canadian Wheatboard August 21, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download this episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner features three segments produced by the National Radio Project’s [...]

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Belo Horizonte and Ending Hunger

Thumbnail image for Belo Horizonte and Ending Hunger July 17, 2009 by Jon Steinman

If we were to analyze the role of local governments in North America, the most common responsibilities of municipalities consist of water and sewer services, road/sidewalk maintenance, upkeep of parks, garbage collection, snow removal, and many other infrastructure-related needs of an urban centre.
What we don’t find on that list of ‘things-to-do’ is food.
Whereas [...]

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Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University) & Backyard Chickens VIII

Thumbnail image for Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University) & Backyard Chickens VIII June 23, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University)
The G. [...]

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Journalists slap the fatally silent Canadian Food Inspection Agency

May 25, 2009 by Mike Soron

This is not welcome news for one of Canada’s most important public bodies.
The Canadian Association of Journalists [CAJ] has given the Canadian Food Inspection Agency [CFIA] it’s 2008 Code of Silence Award for the agency’s efforts to conceal from the public information about fatal failures in food safety.
The award announcement noted CFIA’s struggle to delay [...]

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New Resilient Digest

May 22, 2009 by Mike Soron

“For many months I have gone to bed knowing somewhere in America there is a grandmother eating dog food tonight so that some ass … on Wall Street can drive a new Porsche.”
– Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock (Fortune, 2005) (via MindBodyPolitic)

Supposedly stronger employment data in Canada becomes more interesting with a closer look. Erin [...]

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Deconstructing Dinner at the Dairy Farmers of Canada/Rally for Farms, Farmers & Food Security

Thumbnail image for Deconstructing Dinner at the Dairy Farmers of Canada/Rally for Farms, Farmers & Food Security May 13, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner at the Dairy Farmers of Canada
On February 5, [...]

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Food insecurity in Canada: Welfare reform and economic collapse

May 6, 2009 by Mike Soron

Food bank use in Canada remains disturbingly high. Cuts to the welfare system in the 1990s, changes in employment and wages, and mismanaged public spending drove up the number of Canadians accessing food banks. In March 2008, over 700,000 Canadians turned to food banks.
As Canada moves deeper into recession and more Canadians seek transitional support [...]

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A Perplexing and Promising Tale of Milk

Thumbnail image for A Perplexing and Promising Tale of Milk May 1, 2009 by Jon Steinman

Slowly but surely, the absurdity of our globalized and resource-intensive food system is becoming apparent to more and more North Americans.
One of the most interesting sectors of the food system to deconstruct and from which to unearth just one of these absurdities is Canada’s dairy sector.
Helping to share this absurdity is Wayne Harris, [...]

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Michael Pollan on Bill Moyers’ Journal

March 26, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

“My path was through the garden. -Michael Pollan”
If you’re reading this from Canada, you’re probably very much aware of the state of journalism in this country. While the economy tanks, the Calgary Herald prints Spock and the U.S.S. Enterprise as the cover story. I enjoy Star Trek as much as the next person (perhaps even [...]

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Canadian Beef Consolidated Further & Backyard Chickens (Farming in the City VII)

Thumbnail image for Canadian Beef Consolidated Further & Backyard Chickens (Farming in the City VII) March 16, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download it here, stream it here or subscribe to it on iTunes.
Canadian Beef Consolidated Further
Deconstructing Dinner examines the recent takeover of Canada’s [...]

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Bits & Bytes: putting social media to work for food security

March 9, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Bits & Bytes is a new, social media project devoted to disseminating resources on food security developed as a pilot project of Food Secure Canada with funding from Social Development Partnerships Program of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. It’s goal is to act as a resource library to help Canadians share information and [...]

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Local 101 -tNR #YYC events

March 7, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

On Friday March 28th, Forage Foods is putting on “Local 101″ on from 1:30-6:00pm at Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Centre to connect Calgarians with producers and businesspeople on the local food scene. While I am skeptical as to the revolutionary potential of something put on by what seems to be an upscale-minded catering/food production company, it might [...]

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Food security is radical politics

March 6, 2009 by Ryan Slifka
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The trouble with a lot of local food advocacy is that food issues are either elitist in tone or divorced from political sentiments or movements. Some organizations seem to view local food as a niche that will find its way into the current market. Many Calgary area restaurants serve up local food as a delicacy, [...]

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