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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 20d

A discussion on why Palestinians deserve more than food aid, they deserve food sovereignty with @sarahrotz.bsky.social and Dimitri Lascaris @reason2resist.bsky.social
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Palestinians Deserve More Than Food Aid - They Deserve Food Sovereignty

YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 28d

Lakehead University’s Dept of Health Sciences fall 2025 newsletter is now available mailchi.mp/72fdfc064146...

Making an Impact in Public Health & Health Research

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 8

My discussion of food as a weapon of genocide in Palestine on Superior Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our latest editorial in Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation
Authors provides updates on our new AI policy and the Digesting Food Studies podcast
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News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 7

Food as a weapon of war': Local academic says Canada must act against starvation in Gaza www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/f...

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

Listen to the second episode of digesting food studies that focusses on indigenous food sovereignty now! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Podcast Episode · Digesting Food Studies · 2025-09-04 · 30m

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Assuming this will go viral

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Presenting our award-winning landrace watermelon from at Hymers fair this weekend - northern grown, chemical free, agroecological magic! foodsystems.lakeheadu.ca/agroecology-...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Sep 5

News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

David Szanto
Alexia Moyer
Charles Z. Levkoe
Laurence Godin
Rachel Engler-Stringer

#Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. Text overlay: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation (CFS/RCÉA), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Sep 4

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation

Just Published!

#OpenAccess

#SchoolFood #FoodWaste #Resilience #Equity #SchoolLunches #FeedingChildren #Environment

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries.

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today, over 600 food, nutrition, and agricultural scholars, students, workers, practitioners and organizations signed a letter demanding immediate escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sign this open letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, demanding escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against Palestinians.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) Ad Hoc Working Group on Palestine and the Right to Food Open Letter against food as a weapon of war to the Federal Government

If you identify as a food, nutrition and/or agricultural scholar, student, worker, and/or practitioner living or working in Canada on Indigenous territories, please consider adding your name to this l...

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Join us for this virtual and in person event, focussing on seed sovereignty and agroecology in the north

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Jul 10

Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians - an editorial from DEBORAH COWEN, NAOMI KLEIN, KYO MACLEAR and MADELEINE THIEN

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians

Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt

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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Jul 10

Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience

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Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social
Breen
Harris
Harrison
MacDonald
Stephens
Stoll
Negri
Warne
Loring @philiploring.com

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“Carceral Food Systems” under an image of a tomato plant and a chain intertwined. The tomato plant appears to break through the chains. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): Exploring carceral food systems: Tensions, experiences and possibilities.

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · Jun 19

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him by Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott
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Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him | Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott

Federal and provincial governments are ‘flooding the zone’ with damaging corporate giveaways under the guise of resistance

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Sarah Rotz @sarahrotz.bsky.social · Jun 10

"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."

Genocide by Starvation

This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wo...

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · May 31

Rally and Round Dance Opposing Bill 5 - June 2 @ Queens Park

Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · May 31

For folks in Toronto June 4

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · May 31

UN: “100 per cent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.”

Food is a fundamental human right and denying it is a violation of international humanitarian law. Yet, here we are.

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Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN

Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · May 27

An update from Palestine Solidarity Thunder Bay www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/w...

'We have family back home': Locals rally for Palestinians in Gaza, Thunder Bay

Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · May 27

Powerful voices from @naturesdefence.bsky.social against Bill 5 youtu.be/wKGcHx0mDKw

Bill 5 Address at Queen's Park - Standing Committee on the Interior (May 26, 2025)

YouTube video by Legal Advocates For Nature's Defence

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · May 22

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems

The Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council offers lessons for strengthening democracy and building participatory governance mechanisms in Canada and beyond.

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Independent Jewish Voices @ijvcanada.bsky.social · May 15

Today we mark the Nakba, and 77 years of ongoing ethnic cleansing, colonization, apartheid - and now genocide. For over a quarter of a century, Zionism has been a brutal force of violence and settler colonialism. But Palestinians will not be erased. Read more: www.ijvcanada.org/nakba-at-77-...

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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · May 12

“Exploring Carceral Food Systems" - Canadian Food Studies launch event
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch of "Carceral Food Systems: Tensions, Experiences and Possibilities". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeti...

Join Canadian Food Studies for an online discussion in celebration of the launch of "Carceral Food Systems: Tensions, Experiences and Possibilities", a themed section of the most recent issue of Canad...

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