Food Insider

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the Liberals to deliver on an outstanding promise to create national school meal program backed with funding in the pending budget as he toured a Vancouver Island food bank on Wednesday.

Canada's East Coast regulations are geared to limit corporate control and protect coastal fishing communities while West Coast harvesters flounder under a different set of rules.

New research, co-authored by UBC fish researcher William Cheung, shows climate change will shift seafood populations to make nutrients up to 15 per cent less available by 2100, relative to 2000 levels.

Ensuring people can afford food through income support is better for their mental and physical health, generates less food waste and is more cost-effective than food banks when it comes to tackling food insecurity, new research suggests. 

Vital signs on the performance and state of B.C.’s ambulance service remain an outstanding mystery, an update from the B.C. auditor general on Tuesday shows.

Canada has reiterated its stance calling for a pause on industrial deep-sea mining in shared international waters as the International Seabed Authority launches critical meetings on industry regulations this week.

First Nations across the province are undertaking clean energy programs with provincial funding designed to help ditch the use of dirty diesel fuel.

The pandemic brought an influx of funding to charities, giving a boost to programs that cut food waste. But with that money now gone, researchers and food redistribution organizations are looking for alternative ways to prevent the problem.

The average price of food has soared by 8.8 per cent, forcing about a quarter of Canadians to cut back on their grocery bills in an effort to adapt, StatCan reports. But those increases haven't been equally distributed, with the price of some foods spiking nearly twice as much as others.

In December 2020, the government challenged Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau's ministry to reduce emissions from artificial nitrogen fertilizers by 30 per cent by 2030. Soon after, Canada's $23-billion fertilizer industry jumped into action to make sure the new rules won't hurt its bottom line.

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.

Karn Manhas, the CEO of Canadian agtech company Terramera, believes that technology is key to making more sustainable regenerative farming widespread.

PFAS, a group of chemicals linked to health problems and used in everything from takeout containers to raincoats, is finding its way into American fields and food. Could Canadian farmers be facing the same danger?

First detected in Canada last year, the H5N1 virus has killed over 1.7 million of the country's domesticated fowl and wreaked havoc on poultry and egg farms.

Why a grain that lives for years could solve the climate crisis.