Local And Just

Troy Stozek and I co-host a weekly campus radio-show and podcast. ‘Shaking the Tree’. It promotes environmental, social, and food justice. A mix of talk, walk, and rock. Lots of fun and lots (and lots) of work. Check us out. www.shakingthetreeradio.ca. (Please). This week’s show – dumpster diving. Finished the studio segment, interviewing Geoff, Danielle, [...]

October 16 is a big deal in foodie and food justice circles, and has been since its inception over 25 years ago in Italy. It is World Food Day, an event that celebrates the importance of food and that highlights the need to address the life threatening hunger and poverty that confronts almost a billion [...]

YES, we did it!!! It took us 18 months, 23 meetings, and about 2000 coffees to give birth to our localANDjust funding proposal that we just submitted to SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of the federal government). We have about a 30% chance of success; about the same chance that there is is [...]