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Happy to be back visiting our Sinkunia partners to discuss preliminary findings from our analysis of data collected during a site visit to their community food program last Fall. It was wonderful to reconnect with program leadership and...

Our research team has made it back to Edmonton, this time to engage in field work at the Black-led CANAVUA community food program. We are excited to learn and experience all the work they do for the French speaking community.

Eunice presented our work seeking to bring culturally relevant foods into long-term care homes to better serve the Indigenous and African, Caribbean and Black residents who call this place home. She spoke to a captive audience of...

The Ottawa Valley Food Security Project is busy advertising our Community Backyard Garden Program at Seedy Saturday in Carp. We are giving away free seeds to individuals and families who are interested in growing their own vegetables this...

It was a joy to attend the Moving Upstream Knowledge Mobilization event co-hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health in Montreal, QC. Dr. Mwali Muray and...

Thank you to my mentor Dr. Vivian Welch and her team for including me in this year's CIHR Applied Public Health Chairs Annual Meeting, titled Public Health, Politics & Power: Translating Evidence into Policy in a Divided World. I met...

Happy Nutrition Month from my research collaborator Jennifer Yeung (Director of Food Services at Bruyere Health) and myself. Jen and I are working together on bringing culturally relevant foods to Indigenous patients at Bruyere Health....

As our time in Paulatuk comes to an end, we reflect gratefully on our time here. Celina was absolutely right - it is impossible to understand what life is like here unless you experience it for yourself. We extend an enormous "Thank You"...

Community-based researcher and Indigenous advisor Celina Wolki preparing Artic char chowder to share with our sharing circle participants. We are grateful for her wonderful cooking skills!