Charles Levkoe

Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide The recent retraction of peer-reviewed research claiming glyphosate is safe confirms what Indigenous communities have said for years.

Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide

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...

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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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

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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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...

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.

An excellent article about the dangers of Ontario‘s Bill 5 for Indigenous communities, the public and nature.
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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.

New report from the @jewishfacultyca.bsky.social details CIJA’s pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial

www.jewishfaculty.ca/cija-report

Palestinians Deserve More Than Food Aid - They Deserve Food Sovereignty YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

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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Lakehead University’s Dept of Health Sciences fall 2025 newsletter is now available mailchi.mp/72fdfc064146...

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My discussion of food as a weapon of genocide in Palestine on Superior Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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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Food as a weapon of war': Local academic says Canada must act against starvation in Gaza www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/f...

Indigenous Food Sovereignty Podcast Episode · Digesting Food Studies · 2025-09-04 · 30m

Listen to the second episode of digesting food studies that focusses on indigenous food sovereignty now! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

Assuming this will go viral

Presenting our award-winning landrace watermelon from at Hymers fair this weekend - northern grown, chemical free, agroecological magic! foodsystems.lakeheadu.ca/agroecology-...

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.

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.

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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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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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...

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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Join us for this virtual and in person event, focussing on seed sovereignty and agroecology in the north

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

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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“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.

Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience

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Harrison
MacDonald
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Stoll
Negri
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Loring @philiploring.com

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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

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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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...

"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..."

Rally and Round Dance Opposing Bill 5 - June 2 @ Queens Park

For folks in Toronto June 4

Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal

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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'We have family back home': Locals rally for Palestinians in Gaza, Thunder Bay Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com

An update from Palestine Solidarity Thunder Bay www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/w...

Bill 5 Address at Queen's Park - Standing Committee on the Interior (May 26, 2025) YouTube video by Legal Advocates For Nature's Defence

Powerful voices from @naturesdefence.bsky.social against Bill 5 youtu.be/wKGcHx0mDKw

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems The Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council offers lessons for strengthening democracy and building participatory governance mechanisms in Canada and beyond.

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems

Today we mark the Nakba, and 77 years of ongoing ethnic cleansing, colonization, apartheid - and now genocide. For over a quarter of a century, Zionism has been a brutal force of violence and settler colonialism. But Palestinians will not be erased. Read more: www.ijvcanada.org/nakba-at-77-...