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I have seen several commentators in the past few days criticize the federal program offering support for students and new graduates struggling in the face of...

FoodFocus team member Alfons Weersink recorded a podcast about his new paper. The paper suggests that farmers don't always only consider profit maximization w...

In my last blog post I discussed broadly what was required for a practice or tradition to become recognized by UNESCO as being an ‘intangible cultural herita...

Many of us have heard of, perhaps even visited ourselves, a UNESCO heritage site. From the Great Wall of China to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, UNESCO herita...

There is a significant effort in Canada (and in fact across North America) to “build public trust in agriculture.” A recent article in the Regina Leader Post...

I recently sat down with a group of six vegans to record a podcast (stay tuned in the coming weeks). My objective was to understand their perspective. I expe...

August 3rd is Food Day Canada; a day set aside to celebrate Canadian food. Not only does that involve celebrating food planted, grown and harvested in Canada...

We recently wrote an article titled “Meat Demand is changing but its not because of the vegans.”. Our primary point was that there are many Canadians who are...

Two contemporary problems relating to food that we face today include rising obesity rates, encouraged by unhealthy eating habits, and staggering levels of f...

Canada’s recently updated food guide seems to be populating headlines everywhere – and for good reason. The last time the food guide was updated was in 2007 ...

The introduction of Canada’s new food guide has created a significant stir. The new guide has moved away from a historic focus on servings and food groups, t...