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Feed the children: Canada needs to sign on to Global School Meals Coalition

It’s both a strategic mistake and a failure of leadership that the federal government hasn’t yet advanced a school food program for young Canadians and signed on to an important and visionary world movement for school food.

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Feed the children: Canada needs to sign on to Global School Meals Coalition

It’s both a strategic mistake and a failure of leadership that the federal government hasn’t yet advanced a school food program for young Canadians and signed on to an important and visionary world movement for school food.

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