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Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program. Advocates say it's time (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.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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[–] yads@lemmy.ca 5 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.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yads@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 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.