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CCPA–BC 2024 Gala – featuring keynote speaker Dr. Vandana Shiva
Mark your calendars! On Thursday, November 7th, the CCPA–BC Gala returns, and we couldn’t be more excited to announce this year’s keynote speaker: Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Genetically modified corn trade fight heats up in Mexico
Key dates in the GM corn dispute Dec. 31, 2020: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to as AMLO) announces in a decree…
AFB 2024: Food security
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on food security
Canada and the U.S. are using free trade rules to attack Mexican food sovereignty
Ongoing USMCA case will test the agreement’s bias in favour of biotech companies and genetically modified foods
Farmers can’t rely on corporate-controlled GM crops for climate solutions
It’s theoretically possible to us GM as a climate solution—but in reality, it will worsen corporate industrial agriculture.
Pressure’s on Canada’s grocery giants
They’ve been enjoying excess profits throughout the pandemic.
Cost of food at a crisis level
As we grapple with yet another wave of COVID, the parallel poverty crisis in Toronto has been exacerbated past its breaking point and will have enduring societal impacts.
Canadian landlords can be hostile to African food
In July 2019, two Black African friends and I settled into a new apartment in Ottawa. I quickly guessed that our “African food” would become…
Hungry for more? Monitor resource list
Our favourite books, podcasts and articles exploring issues related to decolonizing the food justice movement, dismantling anti-fat bias and more!
Settler work: Answering the call
Digging into reconciliation, the TRC calls to action and the role of settlers in repairing harm
First do no harm? Weight stigma by the numbers
Decolonizing the food justice movement also requires us to examine the deeply held anti-fat biases that permeate many of these spaces. The Monitor Index details how deep this bias goes and how damaging it is.
Learning to raise and cook food from nana, not a book
Bress ‘n’ Nyam and the Black farmers who are returning to the countryside to steward the land.
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