#SASKATCHEWAN

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Bin There

[reasonsforhope]

"In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community.

Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of churches or community centers, it will feature a produce section, floor-to-ceiling display fridges, and be open all week.

The Regina Food Bank believes that allowing people who rely on the food bank for food security to fill out a cart just like a normal grocery store gives back agency, and may actually help feed more people by reducing waste.

“None of us fit in a box, but that’s what we give our clients today,” Regina Food Bank vice-president David Froh told CBC News. “When you give choices, you give not just dignity, but actually, we figure we can feed about 25% more people.”

One client explained that getting handed a crate of canned/boxed goods put together in a hurry based on what was in stock rarely provides a selection that accounts for things like dietary restrictions, allergies, proper nutrition, or even just synergistic flavors between the foods.

“Normally I barter with my neighbors and we swap back and forth, so it kind of works out that way. But a lot of people don’t do that,” said food bank client Jon White. “So there’s a lot of stuff that just goes to waste.”

The Regina Food Bank doesn’t just support the unhoused or others in dire need of aid; 18% of its clients work full-time, and 2,000 students receive school snacks and meals through their work. Part of their overall objectives with the Food Hub is to reduce societal stigma against using a food bank.

Food banks do not receive government subsidies, so Froh and his colleagues had to look for private donations to raise the CAD$3.7 million they needed to get the Food Hub off the ground. Some of this came from piggy bank-sized gifts, but they also received a CAD$1 million donation from The Mosaic Company.

Much of the stock is produced, grown, or processed in Saskatchewan—part of Regina Food Bank’s goal to improve the sustainability and nutritional quality of the food their clients rely on."

-via Good News Network, June 4, 2024

[mx-xcitement]

i was inspired by my last rb.

[psikonauti]

Eamon Mac Mahon (Canadian, b. 1976)

Thunderstorm, Northern Saskatchewan, 2004

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Tomorrow, the Palestinian Youth Movement issued a call to action to all supporters of Palestine in Canada to support the protestors who are going to be protesting in D.C. at the White House tomorrow. Here is the list of all the protests that have been confirmed for tomorrow. Remember to wear a mask or cover the lower half of your face with a kuffiyeh, to avoid detection by harassment and doxxing campaign orgs. Stay safe and spread the message.

[abandonedography]

Abandoned hot dawg food truck in Saskatchewan (source)

[henk-heijmans]

Lepine elevators, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2020 - by David Burdeny (1968), Canadian

[jfishburnartworks]

Bloodthirsty critter.

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Despite what my lesser cousin would say, I am indeed the greater chicken.

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Prairie regions of the USA, possibly extirpated in Canada

Status: Protected in some states, Attwater subspecies federally Endangered

The Heath Hen subspecies once existed in New England, and went extinct in 1932 despite efforts to preserve it.

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[sestrahulk]

Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine during her Canada's Walk of Fame acceptance speech in her hometown Regina on June 26 2024.

We are witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli settler-colonial state, and we watch and we do nothing. And I would say with whatever platform I have that we can't do nothing and I would demand that our government demand a ceasefire, stop funding the genocide, stop being complicit in it... Free Palestine!

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Sunday Evening

[caniscryptid]

Scenes of Saskatchewan by Robert Newton Hurley

[inatungulates]

Northwestern moose Alces alces andersoni

Observed by rmekkadu, CC BY-NC

[pangeen]

" Shelf Monster Incoming " //© Herry Himanshu

[allthecanadianpolitics]

New Brunswick's attorney general says the province is asking to be an intervener in a court case over Saskatchewan's gender-identity policy for schools. The case, currently before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, is already being supported by Alberta as an intervener. In a brief statement, posted around 4 p.m. Friday, New Brunswick Attorney General Ted Flemming said he had sent a letter to the Saskatchewan court that the province is seeking to intervene by the July deadline. "We believe in the principles of law. This is a constitutional issue about whether the notwithstanding clause is the final word when a legislature invokes it," Flemming said in the statement. "We believe that legislative assemblies have the right to make laws that are important to the people of their province, and that they have the right to protect those laws through the use of the notwithstanding clause, if necessary."

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[vintagecamping]

A couple weary travellers hitch a ride outside Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. Canada

1972