Mark your calendars for The Right to Food in Canada: A Community Conversation. This roundtable discussion will be facilitated by TEG Team Member Brent Mansfield. Read more below:

Monday, March 4, 2013 from 9-11am – Town Hall Room at Vancouver City Hall (453 West 12th Avenue)

On March 4 Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, will be presenting his report on Canada to the UN Council on Human Rights. Food Secure Canada is providing a platform for Mr De Schutter to share his conclusions in an interactive webinar with communities gathered across Canada.

His report, which can be downloaded from Food Secure Canada’s website, highlights a variety of hunger, health, aboriginal rights, and food systems (both land and water-based) issues, which we will continue to discuss once the national webinar has ended with a short panel and roundtable discussion facilitated by Brent Mansfield, the Co-Chair of the Vancouver Food Policy Council. Panelists include: Graham Riches, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work, UBC Dawn Morrison, Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty Aart Schuurman Hess, CEO, Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society Fraser Stuart, Raise the Rates Campaign

We hope you will join us for this very important conversation that is a chance to show that we are not alone in thinking that Canada’s food system is unjust, unhealthy and unsustainable.

This event is open to the public and the media. Please distribute throughout your networks. For more information please contact Brent Mansfield – brentmansfield@gmail.com / 604-837-7667

* Please arrive a few minutes early as the event will start at 9am *

The Right To Food In Canada – A Community Conversation