Don’t Skip the Cranberries
Nestled amongst our Thanksgiving classics is Canada’s second most-valuable fruit: the cranberry. It is easy to overlook the cranberry as merely seasonal. Sure, they’re tart …
Food
Nutrition North Canada: How We Got Here
In Canada’s North, the price of a single bag of groceries can rival a week’s rent in the South. Nutrition North Canada (NNC), launched in 2011, was meant to bridge this gap by making healthy food more affordable in remote communities. But more than a decade later, questions remain: is the program truly addressing food insecurity, or are systemic challenges, like cultural responsiveness, transportation barriers, and outdated policy frameworks, still leaving Northern families behind?
The Summer Fruit Was Just Fine
An Okanagan update following the 2024 BC Tree Fruits Cooperative closure About a year ago, I took the opportunity to cry out the end of …
Insights from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Conference on Agri-Food Biotechnology
FAO’s gradual withdrawal from AgBiotech support While many private firms, research institutions, and public agencies have been very active in communications regarding the benefits of …
Time to Eliminate Supply Management
The following article was originally posted by The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) on June 3, 2025: Sacred (cash) cows – The urgent need to eliminate supply …
Hometown Sustainability: Can Local Production Become Mainstream?
Agriculture Myth Busting Canada is a net food exporter, meaning for the most part, we grow and raise more than the country needs. This statement …
10 Seasons of Student Blogs
In the fall of 2015, in his Introduction to Agricultural Policy course, Stuart assigned the research and writing of student blogs. Students were instructed to …
What’s your Beef with Beef?
The Future of Lab-Cultured Meats in Canada By: Noelle Caouette University of Saskatchewan student What is Lab-Cultured Meat? Lab-cultured meat is an up-and-coming alternative to …
A Brewed Awakening
Soaring coffee prices are alarming for roasters, distributors, and coffee shop owners in Canada and worldwide. The price of unroasted (or green) coffee has hit …
Socially Acceptable Hunger: Food Security’s Part in Sustainability
Agriculture Myth Busting It is easy to think of sustainability aspects separately, as if improvement in one area is dependent upon another. There is something …