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TORONTO STAR -- Maple syrup producers see climate change as a threat to industry’s future

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- Paul Renaud is only too aware of what the power of wind can do to trees. After violent windstorms recently swept through southern Ontario and Quebec, uprooting trees and leaving a trail of damage across a vast territory, Renaud’s thoughts went right to his sugar maples in Lanark Highlands, Ont., where storms once considered rogue now seem more frequent. READ MORE. 

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CBC NEWS -- European formula not yet on store shelves despite temporary Health Canada allowance

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- Measures to keep Canada's stretched baby formula supplies from spiralling into a widespread shortage like that seen in the United States are unlikely to offer immediate relief, and even then may be short-lived, experts say. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- ‘They’ve grown up disconnected’: Saskatchewan programs aim to reunite Indigenous families, support vulnerable mothers-to-be

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- Birth alerts, a decades-old practice that has seen child welfare agencies flag expectant mothers as unfit to care for their babies, have separated hundreds of newborns from their parents, with a disproportionate number of them Indigenous and Black. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE --  To tackle food insecurity, school adds hunting and fishing to reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- When the snow melts in the next few weeks, Terri-Anne Larry’s students will lay traps for rabbits, muskrats and beavers, and learn traditional techniques for preparing and cooking the animals. Next month, they will try fishing for striped bass in the Miramichi. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- ‘As a matter of policy, kids were hungry in residential schools’: The dark history of Canada’s food guide

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- It’s simple, colourful, and many Canadians, especially parents, turn to it for advice on nutrition and health. But Canada’s Food Guide has roots in controversial experiments conducted on 1,300 Indigenous children and adults in Manitoba Cree communities and six residential schools across Canada in the 1940s and ‘50s. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHING -- Menus and room service: How hospitals can transform patient experience (and save money)

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- Every day, a typical large hospital throws out more than one tonne of food, according to a 2014 report . In some Canadian hospitals, more than 50 per cent of the food served to patients ends up as food waste. READ MORE. 

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TORONTO STAR -- Those fake-meat hamburgers might not be a planet-saver after all

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio have invested heavily in two of the biggest plant-based meat-substitute companies, Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, part of the celebrity-driven movement urging consumers to help save the planet by switching to fake meat. READ MORE.

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THE CONVERSATION -- Plant-based doesn’t always mean healthy

BY MEGHAN MCGEE (CHI ‘22) -- As we ring in the new year and people announce their resolutions and goals for 2022, many opt for getting healthy, cutting out drinking or starting a new hobby. Vegan magazines and organizations are pushing plant-based diets — calling it the “ultimate new year’s resolution.” READ MORE.