By Casey Lessard
NUNAVUT
Enjoying a dinner prepared by six Inuksuk High School students, NDP MP Jean Crowder and her hosts experienced a harsh reality. Sticking to a grocery budget of $40 per group (or family) of four for a day, they found they spent their whole day's budget on one meal, and that was on nutritious food.
By Samantha Dawson
Solutions to food insecurity in Nunavut have to come from people in Nunavut, said Jean Crowder, the New Democratic Party’s aboriginal affairs critic and MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan, who visited Iqaluit June 5.
By David Murphy
Grab a poster board and an overpriced food container and head to your local grocery store on June 9.
That’s Leesee Papatsie’s message to Nunavummiut across the territory. She wants to see people out in parking store lots protesting “overpriced” food in the North — and she might just get her wish.
By Darrell Bellaart
A federal law that blocks the free movement of wine across provincial borders could be stricken from the books next week, and the news is welcomed by vintners like Nanaimo's Dale Shortt.
Agreement was reached between Conservatives and Opposition parties to pass a private members bill to end a decades-old law that prevents interprovincial wine shipping.
By Colin Perkel
TORONTO - Canadians should be doing much more for children growing up in poverty, according to a new UNICEF report that finds Canada lags many other advanced countries.
The report by the United Nations child advocacy agency ranks Canada 18th out of 35 industrialized countries when child-poverty rates are compared with overall poverty rates.
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