Ht-Logo-gigapixel-icon
  • Menu
Search
Close this search box.
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Archives
  • Politics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Lobbying
  • Legislation
  • Policy
  • Hill Life & People
  • Podcast
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Archives
  • Politics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Lobbying
  • Legislation
  • Policy
  • Hill Life & People
  • Podcast
  • Free Trial
  • Get free News Updates
  • SIGN IN
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Free Trial
  • Get free News Updates
  • SIGN IN
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Get free News Updates
  • {email}
    • Administration
    • Account Settings
    • Logout
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Get free News Updates
  • {email}
    • Administration
    • Account Settings
    • Logout
  • SUBSCRIBE
Ht-Logo-gigapixel-icon
  • Menu
Search
Close this search box.
  • Home Page
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Foreign Policy
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Legislation
  • Lobbying
  • Hill Life & People
  • Hill Climbers
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Civil Circles
  • Calendar
  • Archives
Menu
  • Home Page
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Foreign Policy
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Legislation
  • Lobbying
  • Hill Life & People
  • Hill Climbers
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Civil Circles
  • Calendar
  • Archives
My Account
  • Free Trial
  • Sign in
  • Free Trial
  • Sign in
  • Free Trial
  • Sign in
  • Free Trial
  • Sign in
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Canada’s Politics and Government News Source Since 1989
Latest Paper
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | Latest Paper
Subscribe Now

TRENDING:

  • Tariffs
    • David Crane
  • Liberal caucus
  • Northern policy
    • Arctic foreign policy
    • Northern ecosystems
  • Political advertising
  • Canada-U.S. Cabinet Committee
  • Rose LeMay
  • Gerry Nicholls
  • Tariffs
    • David Crane
  • Liberal caucus
  • Northern policy
    • Arctic foreign policy
    • Northern ecosystems
  • Political advertising
  • Canada-U.S. Cabinet Committee
  • Rose LeMay
  • Gerry Nicholls

Feds shouldn’t take food industry’s promise of good behaviour at face value

Despite voluntary code, the industry will continue to bombard Canadian children every year with millions of ads for unhealthy ultra-processed food and sugary drinks.

If the food industry really wants to help improve Canadians’ health, they will embrace a government-mandated advertising ban, writes Monique Potvin Kent. Unsplash photograph by Alexander Sergienko
Opinion
BY MONIQUE POTVIN KENT
April 17, 2023
Opinion | BY MONIQUE POTVIN KENT | April 17, 2023

Sponsored content

sponsored content

Get The Weekend Point of View Newsletter

Top Canadian political and policy opinion and analysis. Saturdays and Sundays. Weekends.

By entering your email address you consent to receive email from The Hill Times containing news, analysis, updates and offers. You may unsubscribe at any time. See our privacy policy

More Opinion

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Trudeau could offer change by proposing a bold, structural overhaul of Canada’s political system

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU
CBC

Tory charges of bias are unfair: CBC is nobody’s mouthpiece

OpinionBY JIM MUNSON

Implement the special interlocutor’s final report on unmarked graves now for a new path forward

OpinionBY ABRAM BENEDICT

Syria: jihadis again

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Can Canada actually defend the Arctic?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Related Stories

Responsible advertising of food and beverage products to children: a shared goal, a shared solution

OpinionBY RON LUND

Health Canada’s new guidelines for novel foods take hands-off approach

OpinionBY PETER KUHNERT AND JOAN MASTERTON

Canada needs tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel ads to combat climate change public health crisis

OpinionBY MELISSA LEM AND LEAH TEMPER

Environmentalists brace for resistance from industry over single-use plastics ban

NewsBY BEATRICE PAEZ

How Senate can work across party lines to stop the marketing of junk food to children

OpinionBY TOM WARSHAWSKI AND YVES SAVOIE
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, right. Canadian food and beverage companies and advertisers created one of the world's most comprehensive and progressive ad review requirements. So why has Bill C-252, the Prohibition of Food and Beverage Marketing Directed at Children, been tabled in the House, asks Ron Lund. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Responsible advertising of food and beverage products to children: a shared goal, a shared solution

OpinionBY RON LUND
  • Industry’s innovative code and guide provide Health Canada with the chance to deliver immediately on one of its top priorities under the Healthy Eating Strategy at no cost to Canadian taxpayers. 

Responsible advertising of food and beverage products to children: a shared goal, a shared solution

OpinionBY RON LUND
  • Industry’s innovative code and guide provide Health Canada with the chance to deliver immediately on one of its top priorities under the Healthy Eating Strategy at no cost to Canadian taxpayers. 
If you share our concerns about Health Canada’s effectively deregulating genetically modified plants and seeds, we urge you to call or write Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, left, and Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Foods Marie-Claude Bibeau, write Reverends Peter Kuhnert and Joan Masterton. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Health Canada’s new guidelines for novel foods take hands-off approach

OpinionBY PETER KUHNERT AND JOAN MASTERTON

Health Canada’s new guidelines for novel foods take hands-off approach

OpinionBY PETER KUHNERT AND JOAN MASTERTON
Just as tobacco ads once did, fossil fuel ads obscure the dangers of their products, write Melissa Lem and Leah Temper. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Canada needs tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel ads to combat climate change public health crisis

OpinionBY MELISSA LEM AND LEAH TEMPER

Canada needs tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel ads to combat climate change public health crisis

OpinionBY MELISSA LEM AND LEAH TEMPER
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week announced his government's plans to, if re-elected, enact a ban on single-use plastics. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Environmentalists brace for resistance from industry over single-use plastics ban

NewsBY BEATRICE PAEZ

Environmentalists brace for resistance from industry over single-use plastics ban

NewsBY BEATRICE PAEZ
The Senate has the choice of either protecting the health of our children by passing Bill S-228 in a timely manner or protecting the interests of the industry food lobby by continuing to delay its passage, write Tom Warshawski and Yves Savoie. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

How Senate can work across party lines to stop the marketing of junk food to children

OpinionBY TOM WARSHAWSKI AND YVES SAVOIE

How Senate can work across party lines to stop the marketing of junk food to children

OpinionBY TOM WARSHAWSKI AND YVES SAVOIE

News

  • Politics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Lobbying
  • Legislation
  • Policy Briefings
  • Politics This Morning
  • Hill Climbers
  • Civil Circles
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Election
  • Finance and Budget
  • Public Service
  • Exclusive Lists
  • Parliamentary Calendar
  • Top 100 Lists and Exclusive Features
  • Podcasts
  • This Week's Paper
  • Search
  • Archives
  • Digital Newspaper Archives

Get free news updates

Opinion

  • Andrew Caddell
  • Sheila Copps
  • David Crane
  • Jim Creskey
  • Gwynne Dyer
  • Michael Harris
  • Erica Ifill
  • Scott Taylor
  • Joe Jordan
  • Rose LeMay
  • Alex Marland
  • Gerry Nicholls
  • Gar Pardy
  • Tim Powers
  • Susan Riley
  • Douglas Roche
  • Ken Rubin
  • Josie Sabatino
  • Bhagwant Sandhu
  • Les Whittington

Submit a guest opinion article

resources

  • The Wire Report
  • Hill Times Research Health
  • The Lobby Monitor
  • Parliament Now
  • Inside Ottawa Directory
  • Hill Times Careers
  • The Hill Times Store
  • Digital Newspaper Archives

Advertise

  • Media Kit

subscribe

  • Group subscriptions
  • Reuse and permissions

get help

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Reset Password
  • Account settings
  • © The Hill Times 2024
  • Politics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Lobbying
  • Legislation
  • Policy Briefings
  • Politics This Morning
  • Hill Climbers
  • Civil Circles
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Election
  • Finance and Budget
  • Public Service
  • Exclusive Lists
  • Parliamentary Calendar
  • Top 100 Lists and Exclusive Features
  • Podcasts
  • This Week's Paper
  • Search
  • Archives
  • Digital Newspaper Archives

  • Get free news updates

  • Andrew Caddell
  • Sheila Copps
  • David Crane
  • Jim Creskey
  • Gwynne Dyer
  • Michael Harris
  • Erica Ifill
  • Scott Taylor
  • Joe Jordan
  • Rose LeMay
  • Alex Marland
  • Gerry Nicholls
  • Gar Pardy
  • Tim Powers
  • Susan Riley
  • Douglas Roche
  • Ken Rubin
  • Bhagwant Sandhu
  • Les Whittington

  • Submit a guest opinion article

  • The Wire Report
  • Hill Times Research Health
  • The Lobby Monitor
  • Parliament Now
  • Inside Ottawa Directory
  • Hill Times Careers
  • The Hill Times Store
  • Digital Newspaper Archives
  • Media Kit
  • Group subscriptions
  • Reuse and permissions
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Reset Password
  • Account settings
  • © The Hill Times 2024
Subscribe
  • Home Page
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Foreign Policy
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Legislation
  • Lobbying
  • Hill Life & People
  • Hill Climbers
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Civil Circles
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Home Page
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Foreign Policy
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Legislation
  • Lobbying
  • Hill Life & People
  • Hill Climbers
  • Heard On The Hill
  • Civil Circles
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Inside Ottawa Directory
  • Hill Times Store
  • Hill Times Careers
  • The Wire Report
  • The Lobby Monitor
  • Parliament Now
  • Inside Ottawa Directory
  • Hill Times Store
  • Hill Times Careers
  • The Wire Report
  • The Lobby Monitor
  • Parliament Now
  • Reuse & Permissions
  • Advertising
  • Reuse & Permissions
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Log In
  • Logout
  • Contact Us
  • Log In
  • Logout
CloseMenu
  • {email}
  • Account Settings
  • Logout
  • {email}
  • Account Settings
  • Logout