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Alberta FPC

@AlbertaFPC

Alberta Food Policy Council: Good Food 4 All! Food Justice & Food Dignity [email protected]

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Joined July 2011
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#TUC2020 Time for a review of Alberta's TUC Policy: Land for Urban Ag in Calgary & Edmonton albertafoodpolicycouncil.blo… #UrbanAg #affordablehousing #LandUse #FoodAccess #Jobs #EconDev #ableg #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
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And this was 6 years ago... "Immediately implement a Food Dignity Policy for the City of Calgary." The poor & vulnerable of Calgary are still waiting for #FoodDignity. #yyc #yyccc #ableg #cdnpoli #MGA5b @KayceeMaduYEG #FoodAccess #OMGov #FoodPolicy @cityofcalgary
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FoodX comes to #YYC on Wednesday June 26 at Old Central Library. Free event from 7-8pm. #urbanag #food #farm #FoodX
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Liberals announce national food policy with $134M pledge to improve access theglobeandmail.com/amp/cana… #FoodAccess #yyc #yeg #FoodPolicy @GrowCalgary #urbanag #food #farm

Liberals announce national food policy with $134-million pledge to improve access

Policy seeks to provide Canadians with access to ‘safe, nutritious and culturally diverse food’

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Alberta Food Policy Council made the list! Directory of Food Policy Councils in North America. #Ableg #yyc #yeg #yyccc #yegcc #cdnpoli #urbanag #LFS #FPC @CalgaryFoodPolicy foodpolicynetworks.org/direc…
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Folks- I’m running for the @CalgaryCoop Board of Directors for #sustainability #humanefood #local #cooperative and need your support! see links. Election is March 1 - Apr 1. You will get a ballot by mail or can easily vote online calgarycoop.com/about/board-… calgarycoop.com/election – at Calgary, Alberta
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❤️ #yyc #ableg
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#yyc #yeg Food Policy Council Report 2018 (2019) This report summarizes results from the annual food policy council (FPC) survey conducted in 2018 by the Center for a Livable Future. foodpolicynetworks.org/food-…
What a great program for our kids! #ableg
Grow Calgary (@GrowCalgary) profile pictureGrow Calgary@GrowCalgary6 Feb 2019
An incredible #Youth #Ag Program right here in Alberta, managed by Stephen Hughes! Future Farmers & Ranchers! @chinookranch @4halberta @4halberta2 @4H #yyc #Ableg #cdnpoli #urbanag #Food #Farm @BucklesandBulls @Bdavidson911 @cgoertzranches @SibbaldDavid
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Replying to @AlanaRDavidson
A disproportionate # of women are forced into this decision making scenario. The necessary policy response is obvious --> Provide appropriate supports so women/mothers/parents are not placed in this position. The consequences are significantly more costly. SNAP = SROI #FoodPolicy
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Great news for Canada’s largest community urban farm! #Canada #Food #FoodPolicy
Grow Calgary (@GrowCalgary) profile pictureGrow Calgary@GrowCalgary5 Feb 2019
Oh Kale yeah! This is kind of a big dill! We abSOILutely found a SOILution for the Community Farm! Lettuce celerybrate our new location! It can't be beet! livewirecalgary.com/2019/02/… @LiveWireCalgary #FoodAccess #UrbanAg #Poverty #yyc #yyccc #ableg #cdnpoli #farm #Food #Health

Grow Calgary deal moves them to the city's southeast

Grow Calgary’s potential pumpkin turned into a chariot Monday, whisking them to a proposed new location in the city’s southeast after a last-minute deal was struck with the province. The urban farm’s...

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Here's @justinCgio's story on @GrowCalgary eviction by @YourAlberta. Alberta to evict urban community farm that supplies shelters with organic produce theglobeandmail.com/canada/b… @globeandmail #ableg #cdnpoli #yyc
Alberta to evict urban community farm that supplies shelters with organic produce

Alberta to evict urban community farm that supplies shelters with organic produce

The minister dismissed Mr. Hughes’s request for the farm to stay where it is. “He’s squatting on provincial land and I don’t think he’s in a position to make a whole bunch of extensive demands,” Mr....

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Save Grow Calgary Farm Petition #Ableg change.org/p/premier-notley-…
Nothing says "love local" like signing a petition to save a community farm. #yyc #yeg #ableg #cdnpoli #Urban #UrbanAg #Food #Farm change.org/p/premier-notley-…
2,551 people signed and won this petition

2,551 people signed and won this petition

Save Grow Calgary Farm

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Grow Calgary (@GrowCalgary) profile pictureGrow Calgary@GrowCalgary27 Jan 2019
Fight for Alberta Farms, Premier @RachelNotley! #SaveGrowCalgary Petition change.org/p/premier-notley-… #Ableg #yyc #yeg #Farm #Food #Poverty
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Sounds reasonable. #ableg
Grow Calgary (@GrowCalgary) profile pictureGrow Calgary@GrowCalgary11 Jan 2019
Replying to @CBCEdmonton @RachelNotley
Premier Notley states: "Be reasonable, stick to the issues, deliver the message in a reasonable fact based way" Gr8 advice, Premier! Facts: 1. Poor/Vulnerable in Calgary need us to be growing! 2. #Surplus is not required to construct WRR. #ableg #yyc change.org/p/premier-notley-…
2,551 people signed and won this petition

2,551 people signed and won this petition

Save Grow Calgary Farm

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Alberta Gov demanding Canada’s largest Commuinty Farm leave surplus land. change.org/p/premier-notley-… #topoli #onpoli #mtl #cdnpoli #mtlpoli #FoodAccess
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Realign & shine (@PaulyHughes) profile pictureRealign & shine@PaulyHughes24 Dec 2018
Plz read this tweet from Ty, Premier @RachelNotley. Tommy Douglas founded CCF/NDP on the principles espoused here. Your Gov is attempting to destroy a community #farm for no reason. We give all of our #Food to the least fortunate. @RealKiefer #ableg #cdnpoli #yyc #poverty
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The Alberta Gov is attempting to shut down Grow Calgary, a farm that grows food & gives it away to organizations that help homeless, Veterans, low income & often traumatized individuals & families in Southern Alberta.... change.org/p/premier-notley-…
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Realign & shine (@PaulyHughes) profile pictureRealign & shine@PaulyHughes10 Dec 2018
On the 70th anniversary of #UDHR, we strive for full & equal rights for everyone. @GrowCalgary is Alberta’s 1st declared #Article25 Org, asserting the Right to Food & Shelter. #UDHR70 #SnackInTheShack #yyc #yeg #yyccc #yegcc #ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli #skpoli #mbpoli
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To have greater control over its own #foodpolicy agenda, it helps for a food policy council to be organized outside government—even while closely collaborating with it. Read the new JAFSCD article from the special issue sponsored by... doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2018.…
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