Holiday campaigns ‘fill the gap’ when people need food in remote, northern communities – CBC

CBC’s Sounds of the Season will help deliver food up north on Friday, December 14

Dec 11, 2018

CBC Thunder Bay’s annual Sounds of the Season event is quickly approaching and for the past three years we’ve partnered with the Regional Food Distribution Association (RFDA), the Thunder Bay International Airport as well as a handful of airline companies to deliver thousands of pounds of non-perishable items to remote First Nation communities in northern Ontario to help address food insecurity in the north.

“There are a lot of different components of food security,” Rebecca Schiff, an associate professor at Lakehead University’s department of health and sciences, told CBC News. “It’s about being able to afford food … about it being accessible … it also is related to being able to get food that’s appropriate to your diet … and it’s also about being able to get food that’s nutritious.”

She said in remote, northern communities food is not only very expensive but also harder to access.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/northern-food-insecurity-1.4939687