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Thrilled to be in Edmonton for a 3-day site visit to Sinkunia Community Development Organization to learn about how they source, prepare, and provide culturally relevant food to their ACB clients and community.

So glad to have had the opportunity to meet inspiring community leader Dicky Dikamba from CANAVUA while we are in Edmonton. We look forward to CANAVUA joining our CIHR-funded ACB Foods in LTC project as a community partner in Year 2.

We are proud to have disseminated policy briefs with recommendations co-developed with our research team and interest holders on priority areas for assisted living/retirement home reform to improve care integration for residents. The...

Guided by Knowledge Keeper Arlene Meekis, we are in Sioux Lookout talking to Council members with Wawakapewin First Nation and food sovereignty community leaders as part of our CIHR-funded Change Champions project. We were privileged to...

Visiting Meno Ya Win in Sioux Lookout today for a sharing circle with leadership at their Long-Term Care Home. Meno Ya Win is a provincial leader in providing traditional foods to their Indigenous hospital patients and LTC residents...

On a flight to Sioux Lookout for the first ever site visit in CCAER history. Fog delays caused the other passengers to be moved to other flights, so I am alone on the plane with the two pilots. My own private jet - what a way to start the...

Feeling privileged to co-lead the ACB Foods in LTC Homes project with University of Ottawa's Dr. Mwali Muray. These past few days with this inspiring research team have been both motiviating and humbling. The work of our community...

The whole research team for our CIHR-funded African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Foods in Long-Term Care Homes project is coming together for our kick-off meeting in Ottawa. So excited to spend time with everyone in person!

Check out our newest publication in Palliative Care and Social Medicine sharing findings from our ethnographic study of the role of food as part of person-centred palliative care.