Archive for October, 2010
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Santropol Roulant was featured on CTV Montreal’s Sunday Bite program on October 24th. The program, which focuses on the Montreal food scene, showcased the growth of Santropol Roulant: in volunteers, in capacity, and in square footage. (The new space 
Santropol Roulant moved into is nearly three times larger than its previous headquarters.)
Santropol Roulant is a meals-on-wheels program that uses food as a method of engaging a community.
Access the Sunday Bite page and view the October 24th program featuring Santropol Roulant here.
Tags:CTV News, Engaging Youth, Santropol Roulant, Sustainable Food Systems
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
The Strathmere group, an assembly of the heads of eleven of Canada’s leading environmental organizations,¹ met in Winnipeg on October 25, 2010 to present its inaugural Environmental Leadership Award. This honour was given to Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Pimachiowin Aki Inc. for their efforts in promoting the Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Project.
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Tags:Environmental Leadership Award, The Pembina Institute, The Strathmere Group
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Lori Stahlbrand, founder and president of Local Food Plus (LFP), recently participated in a symposium of local food as part of the Museum of Vancouver’s Food & Beers speaker series, moderated by The Tyee editor David Beers. 
The symposium, titled Can The City Feed Itself? A Recipe For Local Food Success, reflected on methods for bridging the gap between consumers and local food growers. Stahlbrand’s addition to the conversation included an explanation of the “local sustainable” label, created by LFP for farmers in southern Ontario:
“I think there are a lot of consumers out there who want to support farmers and want to support their local economy and their local culture. There are a lot of pluses to it. But it’s very hard to know how to identify it. So we said, let’s create a way to identify it. And the certified local sustainable label is a way to do that.” (From The Hook)
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Tags:Local Food Plus, Lori Stahlbrand, Sustainable Food Systems, The Tyee
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Author Donna Thomson will read from her book, “The Four Walls of My Freedom,” at McGill University on Wednesday, October 20. In this book, Donna Thomson, wife of the Canadian High Commissioner to Britain and disability-rights activist, offers vivid descriptions of her own experience in treading delicately through daily care, medical emergencies and the medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son Nicholas’ cerebral palsy.
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Tags:Donna Thomson, Supporting Family Caregivers, The Four Walls of My Freedom
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
McConnell grantee the Canadian Caregiver Coalition is garnering a lot of media attention, with its caregiver strategy at the centre of a Federal debate. The Coalition is a diverse group of national and provincial organizations from across Canada that works collaboratively to represent and promote the needs and interests of family caregivers with all levels of government, and the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
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Tags:Canadian Caregiver Coalition, Montreal Gazette, Supporting Family Caregivers
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Yesterday, national sponsors of Vibrant Communities Canada released a report of a nine-year experiment that demonstrates the positive impacts of an innovative and collaborative approach to fighting poverty that is driving individual benefits, neighborhood changes and large scale community poverty reductions.
The report, Vibrant Communities Canada 2002-2010 Evaluation Report, highlights key results and offers deeper understanding of the critical success factors, effectiveness and patterns identified through the Vibrant Communities experiment.
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Tags:Caledon Institute, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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