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Patrick Kerans, a leader in the food movement and a key writer for the People's Food Policy, has just published a book entitled A Pessimist's Hope: Food and the Ecological Crisis. He writes:

Up Here, September 2011- by Margo Pfeif

By Charles Levkoe,  Briarpatch magazine - September 1, 2011 

Science Daily- September 1st, 2011

The Fondation du Barreau recently released a guide on food labelling.

The Québec government has recently put forward a proposal for a new agrifood policy for the province, which is supposed to centre efforts on food products and thus on consumer satisfaction.

The documents three positions are to:

Food Secure Canada has been funded by the Rural Secretariat of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to undertake a knowledge-building project for Remote and Northern Communities titled Local Food Connections. The project will run from 2011 to 2013.

We're happy to announce the winners of the first annual Good Food Hero Comic Contest. Students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 were asked to submit comics dealing with healthy, sustainable and fair food and addressing issues in and solutions for the food system. We received hundreds of amazing entries from across the country and have published the top 30 in Canada's Good Food Hero Comic Book.

The People's Food Policy Project (PFPP) was launched on April 18th with the release of Resetting the Table: A People's Food Policy for Canada.  For the past two years, the PFPP, a grassroots movement of organisations and civilians, has engaged 3,500 across the country in the creation of a Candian food sovereignty policy.

What if you could bake someone a pie as easily as updating your Facebook status? That is the question asked by BBC reporter Lakshmi Sandhana in her recent article "The printed future of Christmas dinner" (and by the ÇBC).