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Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program. Advocates say it's time (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Canada is the only country in the G7 that doesn't have a national school food program. Researchers say that as high inflation affects food prices, more children need access to these programs — but community groups say they need stable funding from the federal government to keep everyone fed.

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Cutting out an important part which is the following line to the exerpt:

That means that while every province has different needs, there isn't an aligned approach to feeding students across the assortment of existing programs.

There are plenty of programs in Canada, there just isn't a national one because like a lot of things, it's left up to the provinces. But there are food programs and school lunches across Canada. There just isn't a "unified" federal legislation.

[–] yads@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I've never heard of school lunches in Alberta. It's entirely likely that our province doesn't have a school lunch program at all.

[–] csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The same in BC, as far as I'm aware.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

You didn't look very far imo

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