Food and Farming across the Golden Horseshoe
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Hot Farm Podcast
The Food & Environment Reporting Network has launched a new podcast about farmers, food and climate change, called Hot Farm.
Although the podcast is out of the U.S., its topics and themes are pertinent to us in Canada too.
As the podcast's trailer shares, “if we’re serious about fighting climate change, we have to involve farmers.”
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Food Advertising
Zabiha Halal, the top Halal brand in Canada, has launched a campaign to tackle Islamophobia and offer Muslim Canadians a platform to share their stories and experiences.
A cornerstone of the campaign is a short video in which Muslim Canadians answer the question, “If you had one thing you’d like to tell the rest of Canada about being a Muslim in Canada, what would it be?”
This Canadian Grocer article explains that the campaign is an example of how brands today are most interested in connecting with consumers about issues and concerns that are important to them, rather than a traditional hard sell of product advertising.
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Niagara College is receiving an investment of more than $4.4 million to support cannabis and hemp research and a college-led project benefiting the craft beer industry, as well as an expansion of the Southern Ontario Network for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation.
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Is your business interested in creating new upcycling solutions for organic waste products? Check out the Circular Food Leadership Program — a partnership of food industry SMEs in Southwestern Ontario, Innovation North, Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value, and COIL.
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The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is expanding their bursary program for 2022. Along with offering three $2,000 bursaries to students in an undergraduate program, they're also offering a bursary to a person completing an apprenticeship, as well as a person completing a post-graduate or leadership development program.
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The federal government has announced up to $2.1 million for three organizations to support development opportunities for Canadian youth in agriculture. The Canadian 4-H Council, Canadian Young Farmers’ Forum, and Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers will receive the funds under the AgriCompetitiveness Program.
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Canadian Food Summit
The Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) is hosting its annual Canadian Food Summit on June 1-3, 2022, at the University of Guelph.
The theme of the 2022 Summit is Propelling Research and Innovation. The sessions will include presentations on a variety of topics and themes including emerging ingredients, nutrition and health, food processing, consumer attitudes, global food security, food safety, sustainable food systems and food policy. Networking and social opportunities will also form a major part of the agenda
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Arrell Food Summit
The fifth annual Arrell Food Summit is taking place on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, both online and in-person at the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto.
This year's Summit will explore key topics around the future of food. Some of the topics to be explored include the future of protein, disruptions in the food system, ag-tech innovation and investment, food sovereignty, and youth perspectives on the future.
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Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance
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