Background Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health
care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie …

To mitigate the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal
government has implemented several financial assistance programs, including …

Food banks have become the first line of response to problems of hunger and food
insecurity in affluent nations. Although originating in the USA, food banks are now well …

Background Higher education is widely recognized as a strategy to mitigate food insecurity.
However, marginalized and racialized groups, especially Latinos, often do not experience …

Canada has episodically discussed guaranteed annual income (GAI) as a poverty reduction
strategy, and the idea has garnered renewed attention. We investigate the potential …

Progress in reducing health inequalities through public policy action is difficult in nations
identified as liberal welfare states. In Canada, as elsewhere, researchers and advocates …

Objective: Junk-food marketing contributes significantly to childhood obesity, which in turn
imposes major health and economic burdens. Despite this, political priority for addressing …

Using data from five cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey spanning 2005 to
2014, we assessed changes in household food insecurity in Ontario after the 2007 …

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is a temporary cash transfer program for
workers who have reduced earnings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some workers …

North American food bank use has risen dramatically since the 1980s, and over 850,000
Canadians were estimated to have visited a food bank monthly in 2015. Food banks serve …