Mom, can you pass me the mealworms?
Insects could give a meaty taste to food — and help the environment — scientists find.
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As food prices climb, some Canadians juggle feeding themselves and supporting family abroad
Nearly 15 per cent of Canadian residents send money to relatives abroad each year. Climbing food prices are making it harder to send enough home.
Terrell Roulston shares the science behind being the bees’ best friend
During his undergraduate studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, this 22-year-old helped discover there are many more bees in Nova Scotia’s salt marshes than previously thought.
At Tungasuvvingat Inuit food bank, community helps community
At Tungasuvvingat Inuit in Ottawa, communal feasts and gatherings are built into the culture of the community food bank.
Why this Quebec farmer is growing seeds for ‘resilience’
As global supply chains continue to struggle, food prices surge, and climate change threatens the world's farmland with droughts or floods, some farmers say that locally grown seeds are key to making Canada's food supplies more sustainable.
Glyphosate spraying in N.B. akin to ‘eco-genocide,’ Indigenous communities say
Community members used to harvest food and medicine along the transmission lines. Now they can't, says Wolastoq Grand Chief Spasaqsit Possesom (Ron Tremblay).
With election looming, Ontario food banks ask politicians to put them out of business
As Ontario's electoral candidates float plans to reduce cost at the tills, food banks and food security experts say their food-focused approach is distracting from the main problem: Poverty and incomes.
Turning soil to gold
Karn Manhas, the CEO of Canadian agtech company Terramera, believes that technology is key to making more sustainable regenerative farming widespread.
Joly heads to UN as war on Ukraine worsens world food crisis
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will travel to New York today, May 18, 2022, for two days of meetings at the UN to help mobilize a global response to the food security crisis resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Trudeau meets Zelenskyy and reopens Canadian Embassy during quick trip to Ukraine
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit on Sunday, May 8, 2022, to Ukraine, where he reopened the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv and expressed unwavering support for the embattled country.
The upsides of high oil and food prices
In Europe and North America, high oil and food prices may be the jab in the ribs that will make us grumble until we see the benefits of wasting less, consuming less and focusing on higher values.
Documenting the unseen work of building food sovereignty for Toronto’s Black community
The movement for Black food sovereignty in Toronto is “a blooming flower” that Hansel Igbavboa and others highlight in an upcoming documentary that also shows the mountain of unseen work behind it.
Fighting for food justice out of Toronto’s Jane and Finch
Rosie Mensah is a young nutritionist and business owner in the Jane and Finch area of Toronto who has created a training course for other food health professionals to help people of diverse experiences access food justice.
Canada’s chemical romance stands in the way of the right to a healthy environment
Facing droughts, fires, heat domes, crop failures, floods and Arctic blasts, environmental protection cannot be blind to climate change.
UN says women pay highest price in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine
Women and girls pay the highest price in all crises and conflicts from Myanmar and Afghanistan to the Sahel and Haiti, and “the horrifying war in Ukraine now joins that list,” the head of the U.N. women’s agency said on Monday, March 14, 2022.