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Eating Your Pride on a Welfare Diet

April 7, 2010 By 4 Comments

(Adapted from NOW Magazine, 2000-1) When I went on a welfare diet last week, I didn’t realize just how quickly I would have to swallow my pride. At the request of Daily Bread Food Bank, about 20 politicians, journalists and policy wonks agreed to try eating on the same budget as people on social assistance. [...]

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Governments Continue Tax Breaks for Junk Foods and Over-packaging

April 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Most people think of food as tax-free, but it’s not. The issue is not so much the absence of taxes on food, but the lack of purpose behind them.  The general public calls such levies tax grabs. Among fans of smart public policy, they’re called dumb taxes. The federal government, with which most provinces will [...]

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Red Ink: A Canadian View of Food Inc.

July 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I read about Chef Jamie Kennedy possibly going broke on the front-page news (not bad profile for someone who’s not a banker or carmaker getting bailed out by the government) at the same time I got an invite to see the preview of Food Inc. So the chance to think about the two food happenings [...]

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Feed the economy by eating locally and sustainably

June 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A ten dollar a month per-person government incentive program to eat nutritiously and sustainably would pay for itself in avoided medical and pollution clean-up costs and also create jobs in hardhit local economies.

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Sharing Food and Work Creates an Upside to the Economic Down

February 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Hang in for the introductory lecture on Chaos Theory 101, and you’ll be able to follow and lead the economics debate in fresh ways.

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