School Food Programs

• Saskatchewan signs on to $16M school food program

  The Saskatchewan government has signed a $16-million deal with Ottawa to expand school food programs with funding being recieved over the next three years.

  Consumer

  Mar 10, 2025
  
• ‘It’s a right’: Vancouver Island school food charity sounds alarm about rising need

  Nourish Cowichan runs a school food program for 21 schools in the Cowichan Valley. It currently supports about 1,300 students but said it expects that number to keep rising.

  Education

  Sep 25, 2023
  
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• Quebec families, non-profits, struggling to meet basic student needs

  Lack of funding, growing demand and inflation are affecting Sun Youth's annual school supplies distribution program. The Generations Foundation's shelves are nearly empty too.

  Economy

  Aug 23, 2023
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• Saskatoon school offers daily breakfast program to fight food insecurity

  'Toonies for Tummies' has estimated as many as 2 million children may now be at risk of going to school on an empty stomach, double the number prior to the pandemic.

  Health

  Mar 13, 2023
• Canada is planning its 1st national school food policy. What will it include?

  The policy aims to build on existing local programs in provinces and territories and increase access to nutritious meals for schoolchildren across the country.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2023
• Demand for meal programs in N.S. schools spikes amid soaring food costs

  The Breakfast Club of Canada estimates that, on average, more than 40 per cent of students in schools are now relying on food programs daily in Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 25, 2023
• The New Reality: Pandemic could change Nova Scotia’s school food programs

  With so much uncertainty around how schools will function in the fall, school food advocates say now is the time to take a second look at breakfast programs.

  Health

  May 27, 2020