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Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program. Advocates say it's time (www.cbc.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 β€” but community groups say they need stable funding from the federal government to keep everyone fed.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So for comparison this program helps 5% of the Alberta student population compared to 60% of the US student population for their program.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did you ask the Calgary education board what their programs are? The provincial one is just one default program, if you read further you'll find other programs supported by municipality/city/provincial funding.

I'm not against having federal standards and/or funding, but it's not like there aren't any programs.