Policy Change
School Food Standards and Subsidies
School Food Policy Reform Action List (Acrobat 195k)
—January 22, 2009
Urge your MP to support Bill C-460, Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada Act
in english en français
—April 29, 2013
CSPI Calls on Premiers to Support Federal Sodium-Reduction Bill (Acrobat 162k)
—April 22, 2013
Updated Bill C-460 Joint-Statement (Acrobat 839k)
—April 22, 2013
Letter to Council of Federation urging premiers to support federal sodium bill (Acrobat 233k)
—April 22, 2013
Debate on Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada Peppered with Myths (Acrobat 110k)
—February 4, 2013
Debate on Bill C-460, Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada Act
in english (Acrobat 160k) en français (Acrobat 171k)
—February 1, 2013
Debate Begins in Parliament on Bill to Implement Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada (Acrobat 110k)
—January 31, 2013
Joint-statement of support for Bill C-460 endorsed by health groups and experts (Acrobat 580k)
—January 31, 2013
Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada, 2010
—November 6, 2012
Bill C-460, Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada Act, 2012
—November 6, 2012
Federal Bill Proposes to Implement Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada (Acrobat 113k)
—November 6, 2012
Conflicts of Interest in International Disease Prevention Policy-Making (Acrobat 187k)
—September 27, 2012
Bill C-430, An Act to amend the Competition Act and the Food and Drugs Act (child protection against advertising exploitation)
—June 6, 2012
United Nations Food Law Body Advances Global Standard for Mandatory Nutrition Labelling (Acrobat 234k)
—May 18, 2012
Technical Brief on "Chronic Disease" for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health (Acrobat 425k)
—February 2, 2012
Coalition letter to Prime Minister Harper urging action on sodium reduction (Acrobat 390k)
—January 6, 2012
Fact Sheet on sodium and health prepared by a coalition for sodium reduction (Acrobat 289k)
—January 6, 2012
Meeting Communique--Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health (Acrobat 95k)
—November 25, 2011
Political Declaration on NCDs in the context of 205 other general assembly resolutions issued since 1946
in english en français
—September 19, 2011
Political Declaration: United Nations High Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
in english en français
—September 19, 2011
Nutrition-related partial transcript of NGO United Nations interactive session on NCDs (Acrobat 182k)
—June 30, 2011
Statement of concern on lack of clarity on role of industry for June UN interactive hearing and September UN High Level Meeting 2011
—June 22, 2011
Nutrition advice to the President of the United Nations General Assembly (Acrobat 321k)
—June 15, 2011
News Release: Carcinogenic Food Dye in Soft Drinks (Acrobat 134k)
—March 31, 2011
Letter to Minister of Health re cancer risk of amonia process caramel in soft drinks (Acrobat 280k)
—March 31, 2011
Testimony re "Healthy Living" at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
in english (Acrobat 258k) en français (Acrobat 264k)
—February 3, 2011
Technical Brief on "Healthy Living" for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
in english (Acrobat 401k) en français (Acrobat 413k)
—February 3, 2011
Economic Prevention Dividend: Key References (Acrobat 4573k)
—October 25, 2010
School Nutrition: Excerpts of Key Documents (Acrobat 1606k)
—October 25, 2010
Championing Public Health Nutrition 2010: Conference Registration NOW OPEN!
—August 25, 2010
Toronto Board of Health--Sodium Reduction Strategy
—August 20, 2010
Sodium Working Group: Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada (Acrobat 5301k)
—July 29, 2010
Canadian Medical Association: “Caffeinating” children and youth
—July 26, 2010
Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks (Acrobat 1834k)
—July 9, 2010
Supplementary Submission to Health Canada: Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks (Acrobat 225k)
—July 9, 2010
Member countries of the United Nations World Health Assembly call for limits on marketing to children
—May 21, 2010
Ban Artificial Food Dyes That Worsen ADHD (Acrobat 141k)
—May 3, 2010
Toronto Star: School Food
—October 13, 2009
Federal Minister of Finance reply to request for school food funding (Acrobat 1142k)
—June 9, 2009
CTV: Ottawa should lead on childhood obesity: [Ontario Premier Dalton] McGuinty
—April 8, 2009
Federal Budget Economic Stimulus: Support national campaign to invest $1-a-day in nutritious school meals
—March 4, 2009
Nutrition Action editorial: Feeding the Future (Acrobat 512k)
—March 1, 2009
CBC's The Current: Health and the Recession (Part II)
—February 11, 2009
E-MAIL YOUR MP! : (Clicke here for a model letter and an on-line tool to automatically--using your postal code--email your Member of Parliament.)
—February 11, 2009
Library of Parliament: A Practical Guide to Petitions
—February 4, 2009
Petitioning the House of Commons: A Practical Guide
—February 4, 2009
Healthy School Meal Advocates Ready to Be Understudies in March Budget Review : Best to Support Learning and Fight Unemployment, Disease, and Food Price Hikes (Acrobat 300k)
—February 2, 2009
Model letter to the editor re school foods (Acrobat 19k)
—January 27, 2009
Globe and Mail Policy Wiki : Child Nutrition
—January 26, 2009
National Post: Building the Budget : Feeding the Nation (proposal for school nutrition)
—January 26, 2009
Tips and contact info for writing letters to the editor of newspapers
—January 22, 2009
Globe and Mail: Poverty, malnutrition stunt the growth of Canadian children
—January 20, 2009
National Post “Stimulus Package” (school meals in context)
—January 17, 2009
Canwest News Service: “National meal program urged for Canadian schools,” by Meagan Fitzpatrick
—January 16, 2009
Media Comment by Breakfast for Learning: “Canada's Children Need a National Nutrition Program
—January 15, 2009
Media Comment: Invest Stimulus Money in School Nutrition, Say Nonprofits--Promote Learning and Fend-off-Triple Threat of Recession, Diet-Related Disease, and Rising Food Prices (Acrobat 289k)
—January 15, 2009
Letter to Finance Minister Flaherty re: A National School Nutrition Program for Canadian Children
—January 15, 2009
Backgrounder: A National Nutritious School Meal Program for Canadian Children, January 15, 2009
—January 15, 2009
Media Comment by Breakfast for Learning: Canada's Children Need a National Nutrition Program
—January 15, 2009
Statistics Canada: Consumer Price Index, food, by province (monthly)
—January 14, 2009
Subsidies for US School Meals Programs
—January 14, 2009
Media Comment: Health and Child Protection Groups Call for Pan-Canadian Healthy School Foods Summit
in english (Acrobat 131k) en français (Acrobat 00k)
—June 19, 2008
Open Letter to Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health, and Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Education and Child Protection re school nutrition
in english (Acrobat 165k) en français (Acrobat 167k)
—June 19, 2008
Ontario Bill 8: Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (rec’d Royal Assent, April 27, 2008)
—April 27, 2008
Testimony before the Standing Committee on Social Policy of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Education Act (Healthy Food for Healthy Schools) (Acrobat 86k)
—April 8, 2008
Editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: “Food for All” : by former Ontario Minister of Education, federal MP Gerard Kennedy
—December 4, 2007
Vancouver Co-Op Radio interview re school nutrition
—October 15, 2007
Media Comment: Governments Feeding Childhood Obesity Epidemic by Allowing Sale of Junk Food in Schools (Acrobat 65k)
—October 3, 2007
Report: Are Schools Making the Grade:? School Nutrition Policies Across Canada (Acrobat 476k)
—October 3, 2007
Media Comment on the Institute of Medicine’s Report: “Nutrition Standards for Food in Schools” (Acrobat 34k)
—April 25, 2007
Comment on the Institute of Medicine Report: Nutrition Standards for Food in Schools
—April 25, 2007
Review: School Feeding for Improving the Physical and Psychosocial Health of Disadvantaged Students
—November 15, 2006
House of Commons Motion resolving to end child poverty by year 2000
—January 1, 2000
