School Lunch Program

• New Brunswick launches subsidized school lunch program amid rollout delays

  New Brunswick's first provincewide school lunch program is now serving thousands of students, but about one in five schools is still waiting for full service.

  Education

  Sep 10
  
• Nova Scotia’s education minister says school lunch program to be ‘pay what you can’

  Becky Druhan, the province's education minister, said that program details are still being worked out and will be released over the coming weeks.

  Politics

  May 30, 2024
  
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• Ottawa receives national school food proposal ahead of federal budget

  With the federal budget just weeks away, a framework for a national school food program has landed on the desk of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2024
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• Calgary school lunch program appeals for more volunteers to meet growing demand

  Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids says it needs more helping hands to help meet the growing needs of some of the city’s most vulnerable families.

  Features

  Oct 12, 2023
• ‘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
• Calls grow for universal lunch program as N.S. school year resumes

  The Nova Scotia Liberals and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are calling on the provincial government to implement a universal school lunch program.

  Education

  Sep 7, 2022
• School nutrition programs another victim of inflation, rising food costs

  School nutrition programs in Canada say they are experiencing the perfect storm of rising food costs and inflation.

  Consumer

  Aug 31, 2022
• LGBTQ2 community hub opens in Saint John called Adoringly Shire

  Alice McKim and partner Marike Hachemer created the space with a vision that’s part social club, part student resource centre for the LGBTQ2 community.

  Features

  May 2, 2022
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• Taber women’s shelter making lunches for students working online

  With school nutrition programs paused as students learn from home, Safe Haven Women's Shelter Society is making free lunches for Taber students.

  Education

  May 12, 2021
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• U.K. community members rally to feed hungry children after the British government says no

  Conservative members of Parliament voted 322-261 against a Labour Party motion to extend school meal programs to ensure children in need would continue to be fed over the half-term break and through to Easter of 2021.

  Oct 24, 2020