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Charles Levkoe
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I am the Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems and a professor in health sciences.
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A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses
Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses
Canadian universities are suspending students, cancelling events, and calling in police to suppress pro-Palestinian protest. What’s unfolding on campus is not about safety, but power: a coordinated er...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Some important reflections from Eric Schlosser, 25 years after the publication of Fast Food nation. Spoiler alert: the industrialization and corporatization of our food system has only gotten worse.

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser
The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
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January 11, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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check out the newest issue of CFS — Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025): We're All(ium) in this Together canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025): We're All(ium) in this Together | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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An excellent article about the dangers of Ontario‘s Bill 5 for Indigenous communities, the public and nature.
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Ontario’s Bill 5 erodes good governance in the province
Ontario’s Bill 5 eliminates key environmental protections and grants the provincial government sweeping powers to fast-track development with little to no oversight.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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New report from the @jewishfacultyca.bsky.social details CIJA’s pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial

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The CIJA Report | Jewish Faculty Network
A Pattern of Anti-Palestinian Racism and Genocide Denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. Published by the Jewish Faculty Network.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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A discussion on why Palestinians deserve more than food aid, they deserve food sovereignty with @sarahrotz.bsky.social and Dimitri Lascaris @reason2resist.bsky.social
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Palestinians Deserve More Than Food Aid - They Deserve Food Sovereignty
YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris
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September 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Lakehead University’s Dept of Health Sciences fall 2025 newsletter is now available mailchi.mp/72fdfc064146...
Making an Impact in Public Health & Health Research
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September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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My discussion of food as a weapon of genocide in Palestine on Superior Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Our latest editorial in Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation
Authors provides updates on our new AI policy and the Digesting Food Studies podcast
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News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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September 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Food as a weapon of war': Local academic says Canada must act against starvation in Gaza www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/f...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Listen to the second episode of digesting food studies that focusses on indigenous food sovereignty now! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...
Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Podcast Episode · Digesting Food Studies · 2025-09-04 · 30m
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September 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Presenting our award-winning landrace watermelon from at Hymers fair this weekend - northern grown, chemical free, agroecological magic! foodsystems.lakeheadu.ca/agroecology-...
September 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

David Szanto
Alexia Moyer
Charles Z. Levkoe
Laurence Godin
Rachel Engler-Stringer

#Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. Text overlay: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation (CFS/RCÉA), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation

Just Published!

#OpenAccess

#SchoolFood #FoodWaste #Resilience #Equity #SchoolLunches #FeedingChildren #Environment

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries.
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Today, over 600 food, nutrition, and agricultural scholars, students, workers, practitioners and organizations signed a letter demanding immediate escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people
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September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Sign this open letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, demanding escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against Palestinians.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) Ad Hoc Working Group on Palestine and the Right to Food Open Letter against food as a weapon of war to the Federal Government
If you identify as a food, nutrition and/or agricultural scholar, student, worker, and/or practitioner living or working in Canada on Indigenous territories, please consider adding your name to this l...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Join us for this virtual and in person event, focussing on seed sovereignty and agroecology in the north
August 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians - an editorial from DEBORAH COWEN, NAOMI KLEIN, KYO MACLEAR and MADELEINE THIEN

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Opinion: Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians
Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt
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July 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience

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“Carceral Food Systems” under an image of a tomato plant and a chain intertwined. The tomato plant appears to break through the chains. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): Exploring carceral food systems: Tensions, experiences and possibilities.
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him by Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott
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Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him | Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott
Federal and provincial governments are ‘flooding the zone’ with damaging corporate giveaways under the guise of resistance
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June 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."
Genocide by Starvation
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wo...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Rally and Round Dance Opposing Bill 5 - June 2 @ Queens Park
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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For folks in Toronto June 4
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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UN: “100 per cent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.”

Food is a fundamental human right and denying it is a violation of international humanitarian law. Yet, here we are.

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Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN
Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal
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May 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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An update from Palestine Solidarity Thunder Bay www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/w...
'We have family back home': Locals rally for Palestinians in Gaza, Thunder Bay
Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com
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May 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM