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The Canadian food movement converged in Edmonton in November 2012 for the 7th Annual Assembly of Food Secure Canada. Among the many presentations and workshops were two devoted to New Farmers. The first one was in the form of a Roundtable, hosted by FarmStart and FarmON.com,  and featured short presentations from organizations working to support a new generation of farmers from each part of the country. The intention of this Roundtable was to create a space to share across regions as well as across program areas and approaches.

Au cours de cette assemblée qui s’est tenue dans les Maritimes pour la première fois, une attention particulière a été portée aux pêcheries de même qu’à la manière par laquelle le mouvement alimentaire peut contribuer à rétablir des pêcheries durables produisant des aliments sains tout en soutenant les économies côtières.

(Saskatoon) - October 8, 2014. The National Farmers Union (NFU) will present at House of Commons Agriculture Committee hearings on Bill C-18, the Agriculture Growth Act on Thursday, October 9 at 11 am Eastern Time. The NFU’s careful analysis of the Bill concludes it would increase farmers’ costs, reduce farmers’ autonomy and compromise Canadian sovereignty while providing substantially increased revenue and more power and control to multi-national agri-business corporations, and therefore, should not be passed.

Diana Bronson, FSC Executive Director gave a TED Talk at TEDxConcordia

by Jan Slomp, 
President NFU

The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) embraces the mantra that “all growth is good.”  Their plans to change supply management for growth, are prescription for weakening, if not eliminating, the three pillars of supply management for dairy production in Canada– production controls, import tariffs and farmers’ cost of production pricing. That change is in order to produce more milk, lower its price and increase exports. Read more