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What the measures in the 2023 budgets mean for food insecurity
Budget season has come to an end. The 2023-2024 federal, provincial, and territorial budgets come at a critical time where record inflation has put considerable financial strain on many Canadians. With...
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Update: This position has been filled. PROOF is a research program investigating effective policy interventions to reduce household food insecurity in Canada. It is led by Dr. Valerie Tarasuk at the...
View ArticleNew data on household food insecurity in 2022
In 2022, 18.4% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household. That amounts to 6.9 million people, including almost 1.8 million children, living in households that struggled to...
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Food prescriptions – a short-sighted response to food insecurity
Originally published in Healthy Debate on May 24, 2023. By Tim Li Living in a household struggling to afford food is toxic for people’s health. As the severity of food insecurity increases, so does...
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Canada’s national food policy is at risk of enshrining a two-tiered food system
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau helps prepare a food box at a food bank in Mississauga, Ont., in November 2022. Food charity is not the solution to ending food insecurity in Canada. THE CANADIAN...
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Canada Child Benefit’s Seventh Year: Reflecting on its unrealized potential...
Updated 2023-11-23 for updated statistics from our report, Household Food Insecurity in Canada, 2022 As Canada commemorates the seventh anniversary of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB), it is essential to...
View ArticlePROOF submits brief on potential for a guaranteed livable basic income to...
In April 2023, the Senate complete the second reading of Bill S-233. If passed, the bill would see the federal government investigate and develop a framework for implementing a basic income program in...
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Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it’s ever been — here’s how we can...
Valerie Tarasuk, University of Toronto and Tim Li, University of Toronto According to the latest Statistics Canada data, household food insecurity in the 10 provinces has reached a record high. Drawing...
View ArticleNew data on household food insecurity in 2023
In 2023, 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household. That amounts to 8.7 million people, including 2.1 million children, living in households that struggled to afford the...
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National school food program won’t solve food insecurity for families. Here’s...
Originally published on Policy Options (Version française disponible ici) The 2024 federal budget announcement of $1 billion over five years to establish a national school food program fulfils the...
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