Resource Category: Policy

The Intersection of Food Insecurity, Anti-Black Racism, and a Guaranteed Livable Income: A Conversation with Paul Taylor from FoodShare Toronto

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: Appointed
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Poverty, Racial Equity, Right to Food
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Discussion with Paul Taylor, the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto on a guaranteed livable income, the origins of food banks in Canada and their ineffectiveness in addressing food insecurity, and the ways in which racism, social services, and income and housing inequality intersect to create the racialization of hunger.

Making Our Food Fairer: Don’t Call Me Resilient

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: The Conversation
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Decolonization, Food Justice, Indigenous food sovereignty, Movement Building, Policy, Racial Equity
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Tabitha Robin Martens, Assistant Professor UBC, speaks with Melana Roberts, President of Food Secure Canada, about our country’s food systems and how they intersect with culture, colonization, and the lives of BIPOC.

The Right to Food with Paul Taylor

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: SFU Below the Radar
• Category: Covid 19, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Movement Building, Policy, Right to Food
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Conversation between FoodShare’s Executive Director and lifelong anti-poverty activist Paul Taylor and host Am Johal delving into the work Paul has done in both Toronto and Vancouver with various activist organizations such as FoodShare, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, and Gordon Neighbourhood House.

Food Security: Why Income Matters

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Food Matters Manitoba
• Category: Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Poverty, Right to Food
• Format: Video
• Type: Webinar

A panel discussion of basic income solutions and the opportunities to create real change for food insecure Canadians.

Canada’s racist model of migration control

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: The Breach
• Category: Agriculture, Food Justice, Migrant Labour, Policy, Racial Equity
• Format: Video
• Type: Video

Harsha Walia speaks about the commodification of immigrant workers in Canada, and the system that works at every turn to cheapen their labour and reinforce their vulnerability.

Winning the Right to Food Town Hall

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: FoodShare Toronto
• Category: Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Racial Equity, Right to Food
• Format: Video
• Type: Webinar

FoodShare Toronto’s first town hall meeting as part of their Right to Food Campaign.