Canada's Environmental Voice
Canadians waste more energy than almost any people in the world. We love big trucks, beer fridges and keeping our homes colder in the summer than in the winter. That’s why the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance has presented the Eco-City Community Challenge, managed by Green Living Enterprises, to encourage Canadians to lower our […]
In the Food & Drink podcast, you’ll learn that the Canadian government doesn’t care about organic food or healthy drinking water. Emily Slofstra interviews Taarini Chopra (3:57) about genetically modified alfalfa. If Roundup Ready alfalfa gets on the market, there will be major impacts to the food system, both economically […]
Chocolate is one of life’s great pleasures. The perfect food, chocolate is fuel for flagging spirits, an inspiration, a temptation and, for some, a sacrament. Yet most consumers of mass-produced chocolate may be unaware of their beloved confection’s dark side. Child slave labour in West African cocoa plantations haunts the […]
Kent Monkman is no stranger to poking fun at us. That’s not to say he’s a First Nations artist who mocks the white man, or a gay person taking heterosexuals to task. No, he pokes fun at us, writ large. The part-Cree, part-Irish artist’s work includes the exploits of his […]
FOOD CHARTERS are gathering momentum in Canada as a strategy for reconnecting producers and consumers, and for promoting healthier eating habits and agricultural practices. A charter’s overarching goal is to engage community members and stakeholder organizations to collectively define the core characteristics of a just and sustainable local food system.
At 16, Mérida Anderson became a vegan and cooked her first meal. She opened a can of mini corn (which she loved) and cooked cauliflower (the only other vegetable in the refrigerator). She remembers that it was “truly awful.”
FOR MOST OF US, our primary connection to our food system is what we had for dinner last night. It’s what we get at the grocery store, our local farmers markets or in our CSA baskets. It’s what we stock in our kitchen cupboards and put on our plates and […]
Taarini Chopra is the publications coordinator at Seeds of Diversity Canada and researcher at the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). Taarini was the associate editor at A\J for three years and now serves on the editorial board. She has worked on organic farms in Ontario, was co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food System […]
WHETHER CRAFTING OR CONSUMING, Canadians are no strangers to experimenting with alcohol. And while our skills and appetites for beer and wine are renowned, our reputation for making and sharing bottled spirits remains small – or at least haunted by the spectre of being “screeched in” by Newfoundlanders.
LOCAL FOOD HAS TAKEN OFF. From coast to coast to coast, the Canadian food landscape is changing. Within local communities, alternatives to entrenched supply-chain strategies are thriving, such as farmers’ markets, restaurants that focus on regional food sources, community supported agriculture (CSA), farm-gate sales and certified organic food production. Increasingly, Canadians […]
