Federal government extends pandemic funding for northern food security
Nutrition North program subsidies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue for at least two more years, says
Read moreNutrition North program subsidies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue for at least two more years, says
Read moreCaroline Cochrane, the premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT), watched the federal budget announcement Monday, in hopes the spending would
Read morePeople across the North are pleased to see changes to Nutrition North, the federal program that aims to make food
Read moreNutrition North will begin subsidizing non-perishable food items and products like diapers when they are shipped via sealift to remote
Read moreA national Inuit organization is pushing for Inuit to get a significant chunk of Ottawa’s promised $40 million for a
Read moreFood insecurity in Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) has gotten worse since the introduction of the Nutrition North program in 2011,
Read moreThe federal government is holding off on cutting Nutrition North subsidies to nearly three dozen food items, CBC News has
Read moreThere’s a boil-water advisory in Iqaluit, Nunavut and Jo Ellen Pameolik, a mother of four, has just purchased a 24-pack
Read moreDiapers, macaroni, spaghetti, dried beans and frozen french fries are among the new items now going to be subsidized under
Read moreTwo youths have been arrested with arson charges pending in connection with a fire that destroyed the warehouse of Iqaluit,
Read moreThe federal government is promising changes to its northern food subsidy program, but Labrador’s Nunatsiavut government (eastern Canada) says Ottawa isn’t listening to
Read moreCanada’s Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is promising changes to the federal government’s northern food security subsidy program
Read moreNutrition North is on the to-do list of Canada’s new minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade. Minister
Read moreThe federal government is expanding its food subsidy program for isolated northern communities by adding 37 communities where food prices
Read moreThe chair of Canada’s Nutrition North Advisory Board says the food subsidy program is having a positive impact on northerners.
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