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UN Right to Food Mission to Canada

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has announced an official country mission to Canada, set for May 2012. Civil society groups from across the country were invited by the Special Rapporteur to provide suggestions as to what priority issues he and his team might consider for investigation. A decision was made to produce a joint civil society submission for collective impact, and a Coordinating Committee including Food Secure Canada was struck to support the process. An update on the mission will be provided as soon as possible.

To read the full joint submission, please click here.

Media Coverage of the Mission:

• UN Right to Food Rapporteur Plans Spring Mission to Canada (The Tyee, Jan. 13, 2012)

Crossroads for Food Studies: A Fork in the Road?

The Canadian Association for Food Studies is holding its conference and seventh AGM May 26-28 at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

The conference theme is Crossroads for Food Studies: A Fork in the Road? The subject matter requires the crossing of disciplines and both the coming together and moving apart of ideas, individuals, communities and methods.

National Student Food Charter

Canadian campuses are buzzing with high level discussions about food from every perspective. 

The National Student Food Charter (NSFC) aims to gather student voices, connect ideas to action, and unify the Canadian student food movement!

They’re sharing toolkits, hosting strategy and orientation calls, and connecting students across the country to support student involvement in food on campus.

The Charter will play a major role in uniting the Canadian student food movement and setting its direction. There are several was you can learn, and participate!

To learn more, check out studentfood.ca!

Food Secure Canada's Annual General Meeting - 2011

We held our Annual General Meeting on Dec. 16th with attendance from coast-to-coast-to-coast!

• Meet our new Steering Committee Members

• Read minutes and reports from our AGM

Federal Court rules that the Harper Government broke the law in abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board

On Dec. 7, 2011, Justice Campbell of the Federal Court issued a declaration that the Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, acted in breach of his statutory obligation to hold a plebiscite of farmers before abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board's "single desk" mandate for marketing wheat and barley.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada, the Council of Canadians, Food Secure Canada, and the ETC Group (the "Interveners") were given public interest standing in the applications for the purpose of addressing important international trade and constitutional questions raised by the Minister's actions. The Court's decision repeats and adopts the Interveners' submissions on these two key points.

Click here to read more (the information above was extracted from and article on Rabble.com)

Read the Globe and Mail article

For a full report from the hearing, click here

MEMBER NEWS and EVENTS

The Greed Revolution

A new ETC Group report, The Greed Revolution: Mega Foundations, Agribusiness Muscle In On Public Goods, documents the growing influence of agribusiness on the multilateral food system and the lack of transparency in research funding.  

The report points to a dangerous trend that will worsen rather than solve the problem of global hunger. 

It shows that multinational corporations are now seeing their future profitability in “emerging economies,” and they are finally taking notice of the international institutions that have been quietly working throughout the global South for half a century. However this new interest in UN agencies is causing “mandate-muddle” as companies demand that policy be rewritten to better reflect their interests. 

New Trade Deal May Put a Stop to Local Food

The NFU has a great campaign against the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the free trade agreement that the Canadian government has been negotiating with the EU.  This agreement would effectively put an end to local procurement, threaten the organic and supply management sectors and would allow corporations to seize the farms and freeze the bank accounts of farmers who are alleged to have infringed on their intellectual property rights.  To learn more about it, check out the NFU website, download their report Why We Don't Want CETA, and sign their petition.

The Council of Canadians has also been very vocal on this issue.  You can read more about it here and take action here.

The NDG Food Depot Thriller!

Check out this fun video from the NDG Food Depot’s third annual Thriller awareness-raising event in Montreal.

Come to The Growing Local Conference! 

Registration is now open for Manitoba's premiere food security event. The Conference will take place in February, and will feature guest speakers, workshops, and films. Be a part of the growing healthy, sustainable and fair food movement in Manitoba!

Click here to register.

The Case for Urban Agriculture will be Heard
History Made in Montreal

A coalition of Montreal-based organizations has just made history by collecting 25000 signatures,  10000 signatures more than the number required, to bring the issue of urban agriculture to public hearing. This is the first time that enough signatures have been gathered to bring a specific topic to public consultation, and could open the door for  advancements to be made in the area of urban agriculture.

For more information, read these articles in English and in French.

People's Food Policy

This visionary document was launched in Ottawa on
April 18th, 2011 at a press conference on Parliament Hill.

Click on the graphic to download the full document.

Take action:

 - Sign the pledge for a healthy, ecological and fair food system.

 - Tell your MP or MPP that food matters to you.