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Nutrition North

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Federal government extends pandemic funding for northern food security

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:02 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:06
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Nutrition North program subsidies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue for at least two more years, says

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Health, climate among northern highlights from Canadian budget

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 13:44
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Caroline Cochrane, the premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT), watched the federal budget announcement Monday, in hopes the spending would

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Northerners welcome changes to Canada’s Nutrition North program, but wish for more

Angela Hill, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 11:58
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People across the North are pleased to see changes to Nutrition North, the federal program that aims to make food

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Sealifted goods, tampons added to Canada’s Nutrition North subsidy program

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 13:56 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 09:28
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Nutrition North will begin subsidizing non-perishable food items and products like diapers when they are shipped via sealift to remote

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada’s Nunavut territory to get large slice of $40 million federal harvester support program

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 09:51
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A national Inuit organization is pushing for Inuit to get a significant chunk of Ottawa’s promised $40 million for a

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Food insecurity rising in Canada’s eastern Arctic since launch of federal subsidy program

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 09:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 15:37
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Food insecurity in Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) has gotten worse since the introduction of the Nutrition North program in 2011,

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian gov holds off on Nutrition North changes to gather more input from Inuit

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 14:19
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The federal government is holding off on cutting Nutrition North subsidies to nearly three dozen food items, CBC News has

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Millions of dollars in grocery subsidies haven’t lessened food insecurity in Canada’s North

Katie Pedersen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 29, 2019 at 10:44
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There’s a boil-water advisory in Iqaluit, Nunavut and Jo Ellen Pameolik, a mother of four, has just purchased a 24-pack

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada to boost subsidies on flour, frozen fruit in major Nutrition North update

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 10:55
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Diapers, macaroni, spaghetti, dried beans and frozen french fries are among the new items now going to be subsidized under

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian Arctic: two arrests in connection with grocery store fire in Iqaluit, Nunavut

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 9, 2018 at 13:24
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Two youths have been arrested with arson charges pending in connection with a fire that destroyed the warehouse of Iqaluit,

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Inuit in Canada’s east-Arctic say Ottawa not committed to fixing northern food subsidy program

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 29, 2018 at 16:07 — Last Updated: Monday, October 29, 2018 at 16:15
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The federal government is promising changes to its northern food subsidy program, but Labrador’s Nunatsiavut government (eastern Canada) says Ottawa isn’t listening to

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Canada’s northern food security program has ‘lost its way’, says federal minister

Catharine Tunney, CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 12:18
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Canada’s Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is promising changes to the federal government’s northern food security subsidy program

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian PM directs northern minister to update and expand Nutrition North program

Angela Hill, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 14:03
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Nutrition North is on the to-do list of Canada’s new minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade. Minister

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Ottawa adds 37 more communities to its Nutrition North subsidy program

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 17:35
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The federal government is expanding its food subsidy program for isolated northern communities by adding 37 communities where food prices

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Over 72 percent of respondents in a recent survey said they always or sometimes have a bad conscience about throwing away food when others in the world go hungry. (CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Food subsidy board says program working for Canada’s North

CBC News
Posted: Monday, May 27, 2013 at 10:03
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The chair of Canada’s Nutrition North Advisory Board says the food subsidy program is having a positive impact on northerners.

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