PRESS RELEASES

For an interview contact: 

Diana Bronson, Executive Director, Food Secure Canada

• cell: (514) 629-9236
• office: (514) 271-7352
• email: diana[a]foodsecurecanada[dot]org

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: @FoodSecureCAN

FSC Press Releases:

National School Nutrition Program on the Menu at Parliamentary Finance Committee Pre-Budget Hearings (19 November 2012)

Food for Thought - and action - in Edmonton (1 November 2012)

Hundreds of Food Enthusiasts Power Up! in Edmonton (17 October 2012) 

GROUPS CALL FOR APOLOGY TO UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO FOOD (30 May 2012)

FOOD IS A HUMAN RIGHT: NATIONAL FOOD POLICY NEEDED (16 May 2012)

Media Advisory: Right to Food:  National Organizations to React to UN Report (14 May 2012)

UN Envoy told Staggering Statistics on the Right to Food in Canada (11 May 2012)

Media Advisory: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to investigate poverty and hunger in Toronto (8 May 2012)

Hunger is Not a Game (1 May 2012)

Op-Eds

Let’s Put our Money where Our Mouths Are! (3 February 2013)

Statements:

Statement Regarding the National Beef System (9 November 2012)

United Nations Human Rights Press Release:

​Canada: national food strategy can eradicate hunger amidst plenty – UN rights expert (16 May 2012)

Follow the UN Mission in Canada on Twitter: #Right2FoodCAN, #deSchutterMTL

Click here for news coverage of Food Secure Canada, the UN mission and food issues in Canada

View and download photos of our press conference May 16, with Diana Bronson (Food Secure Canada), Mary Simon (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami), Bill Jeffery (Centre for Science in the Public Interest), and Paul Slomp (National Farmers Union).  Photos by Faris Ahmed.

Background information on the Special Rapporteur and his mission to Canada

• download (pdf) or
• read text here.

A complete list of civil society meetings with the Special rapporteur can be found here.

For a list of organizations who have responded to the recent Federal Government's budget, click here.

For more information on Indigenous Rights, Food and Health issues, please contact:

• Larry McDermott, Executive Director, Plenty Canada and Human Rights Advocate
  • c.613.485.0755
  • office: 613.278.2215 
  • larryplentycanada[a]gmail[dot]com
• Daniel David, First Nations Information Governance Centre
  • (613) 733-1916
  • ddavid[a]fnigc[dot]ca
• Ellen Gabriel, Kanasatake Cultural Center:
  • (450) 479 1651
  • katsitsakwas1[a]hotmail[dot]com

• Stephen Hendrie Director of Communications  Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

  • ​Cell: (613) 277-3178

  • hendrie[a]itk[dot]ca

Read Ellen Gabriel's presentation to the UN Special Rapporteur on May 6, 2012 in Montreal, or watch it on YouTube.

Other resources available on the Indigenous Circle's page.

Press release from Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

The Right to Food and Indigenous People - Joint Brief to the Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations

NDP Submission to the Special Rapporteur