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1. From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario

   19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):

   By Kristin Burnett, Kelly Skinner, Joseph LeBlanc

   This paper is a critique of the report released on 25 November 2014 by the Auditor General of Canada (AG), Michael Ferguson, on Nutrition North Canada (NNC), a subsidy program designed to lower the...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7690/?v=1

2. Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Sonia D. Wesche, Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon, Michael A. Robidoux, Courtney W. Mason

   Food security in Canada’s North is complex, and there is no singular solution. We argue that land-based wild food programs are useful and effective in contributing to long-term food security,...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7608/?v=1

3. Greening Canada’s Arctic food system: Local food procurement strategies for combating food insecurity

   19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):

   By Angel Chen, David Natcher

   Across northern Canada community gardens and greenhouses are being used as alternatives to imported foods that are often unaffordable, are of compromised quality, or simply unavailable in local...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7547/?v=1