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Ontario Asks Ottawa For Help Amid Drought Disaster

CBC | Posted 09.30.2012 | Canada Politics
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Ontario's agriculture minister said the province won't be offering new money for struggling farmers in eastern Ontario, but said he has asked the fede...

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Local Food System Needs Leadership, Not Penny-Pinching

Shiloh Bouvette | Posted 09.26.2011 | Canada Politics
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Shiloh Bouvette

The mayor of Canada's largest city is in cost-cutting mode and a local food policy, originally passed in 2008, has just escaped the chopping block. Well almost. As many locavores will tell you, there is the price on the grocery receipt and there are the costs that we pay elsewhere -- the hospital bills, the environmental debt and the money farmers pay out of their own pockets to stay afloat.

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