Northern food security key to Canada’s future

For the sake of our global future, food security in the North is an issue requiring thoughtful investment now.

Last year, Statistics Canada released an analysis of 2012 information: between 33 and 55 per cent of Nunavut residents over the age of 25 had experienced food insecurity in the previous 12 months.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY MARY BUHR

September 17, 2018

True or False: The Arctic is thawing, uncovering land that can grow food and eventually feed the world. Answer: both. Another answer: We don’t know—because so much is changing. And it has serious implications for food security in the north. What we do know is that permafrost—ground that rem...

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