Media coverage of the UN mission to Canada

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Click here for domestic coverage and here for international coverage.

Domestic coverage:

June 18, 2012, Montreal Gazette

• Is Canada's relationship with the UN turning sour?

June 14, 2012, NOW Magazine, by Wayne Roberts

• Harpercons play hunger games

May 23, 2012, CTV

• Aglukkaq acknowledges Northern food challenges

May 22, 2012, The Star Phoenix

• UN food envoy unfairly treated

May 22, 2012, Canadian Meat Business

• Canada needs national food strategy, UN rep says

May 21, 2012, The Times Colonist

• He's right - we should be ashamed

May 19, 2012, The Guelph Mercury

• Too many Canadian kids are going hungry

May 19, 2012, The Toronto Star

• UN envoy blasts poverty in Canada

May 17, 2012, rabble.ca

• UN report bolsters Canada's right to food movement

May 16, 2012, CTV Power Play

• Interview with Diana Bronson, Executive Director of Food Secure Canada

May 16, 2012, APTN News

• Food security not an issue for “Aboriginal people” because “they hunt every day,” says Aglukkaq

May 16, 2012, CBC News, by Laura Payton

• Hunger groups call for strategy in wake of UN report

May 16, 2012, CTV News, video and written piece by CTVNews.ca staff

• Kenney lashes out at UN over food security criticism
• Note the second video posted on the right hand column of Olivier De Schutter's press release, "Extremely severe" concerns

May 16, 2012, CTV News

• Diana Bronson, Executive Director of Food Secure Canada on CTV New

May 16, 2012, Canada.com

• One minister meets with UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food while another blasts him

May 15, 2012, The National Post, by Sarah Schmidt

• UN envoy Olivier De Schutter blasts Canada for 'self-righteous' attitude over hunger, poverty

May 15, 2012, The Ottawa Citizen, by Susan Walsh

• Fixing a flawed system

May 14, 2012, The Hill Times, by FSC Director Diana Bronson

• UN investigation underlines need for national food policy (PDF, 675KB)

May 14, 2012, The Globe and Mail, by Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones

• Childhood hunger is a Canadian public health crisis

May 13, 2012, CBC radio, the World at Six, by Joan Leishman

• http://podcast.cbc.ca/w6/worldatsix.mp3, time: 18:28

May 13, 2012, The Edmonton Journal, by Brent Wittmeier

• Aboriginal access to food under scrutiny

May 12, 2012, The Huffington Post, by Megan Yarema

• All Canadians Have a Right to Food

May 12, 2012, Metro Winnipeg, by David Baxter

• Lack of grocery stores in North End contributing to diabetes: UN official

May 11, 2012, Winnipeg Free Press, by Alexandra Paul

• First Nations protest ahead of UN visit

May 9, 2012, thestar.com, by Noor Javed

• Flemingdon Community Food bank facing $30,000 rent arrears

May 8, 2012, Care2, by Cathryn Wellner

• U.N. Investigates Canada’s Right to Food Record 

May 8, 2012, CBC News

• UN food rapporteur visits Canada - but skips North

May 8, 2012, Daily News, by Darrell Bellaart

• UN should be concerned for First Nations, says Crowder

May 7, 2012, CTV Winnipeg, by Angela Mulholland

• UN monitor probing Canada's food supply issues

May 7, 2012, Rabble.ca, by Tariq Jeeroburkhan

• The UN in Canada: bringing together the Eaters and the Producers

May 6, 2012, George Stroumboulopoulos

• The UN Right To Food Mission Is Visiting ... Canada?

May 5, 2012, Winnipeg Free Press, by Diana Bronson

• UN to investigate Canada's broken food system

May 5, 2012, CBC Radio

• CBC Radio interview with FSC

May 4, 2012, Post Media, by Sarah Schmidt

• Cabinet ministers say no to meeting with UN food envoy

May 3, 2012, MacLeans, by Gustavo Vieira

• UN food monitor probes Canada

May 3, 2012, Global Edmonton, by Rebecca Lindell

• UN to probe food security in Canada

May 2, 2012, Post Media, by Sarah Schmidt

• Canada first wealthy nation to be probed by UN food monitor

April 26, 2012, Winnipeg Free Press, by Mary Agnes Welch

• UN to get up-close look at struggling reserves

International coverage:

May 17, 2012, BBC News

• Canadian anger at UN food report

May 17, 2012, Al Jazeera

• Food-insecure' Canada rebukes UN official

May 16, 2012, The Sacramento Bee

• Food is a human right: National food policy needed

May 16, 2012, The Chicago Tribune

• U.N. criticizes Canada for letting people go hungry

May 16, 2012, Agence France Presse

• Canada, UN envoy in food fight

May 16, 2012, UN Newswire

• UN expert urges Canada to adopt national strategy to ensure right to food