People cannot change their behaviours in response to carbon pricing.
A carbon price is all about encouraging people and businesses to find innovative ways to avoid paying the carbon price. A carbon price says “Come at me, bro,” and that works. In…
There is no point to carbon pricing if you rebate the revenues.
Sure, a case can be made for this if you believe that given the choice between “having more money than when you started with” and “breaking even,” people will pick the second…
We can use other, better policies to shrink our emissions.
A price on carbon isn’t the only way to address the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to address the problem of climate change but it is, in many ways, the most…
There is no need to reduce Canada’s emissions.
Canadians can toast each other smugly over hot tea and pretend that either climate change can only benefit us or that we are not the problem anyway. We can point to what…
It costs more to eat healthy
Healthy eating doesn’t necessarily cost more The University of Guelph Food Institutes 2016 Food Price Reports the average Canadian household will spend up to $345 more on food overall in 2016 regardless…
Buying in bulk is best
Buying small is sometimes a better option While there may be some benefits to buying big, there are also some potential economic, environmental and health drawbacks. The Toronto Food Policy Council suggests…
Grocery shopping is time consuming
Disorganization is time consuming One of the most common complaints we hear from our nutrition-counselling clients is that grocery shopping takes too much time. As a result of this thought pattern, two…
Food loss and food waste are the same thing
FOOD LOSS HAPPENS DURING ITS JOURNEY FROM FARM TO RETAILER. FOOD WASTE HAPPENS IN RETAIL, RESTAURANTS AND OUR KITCHENS WHEN FOOD GETS THROWN AWAY. Food loss typically takes place before food ever…
Through a food-security lens
Tarasuk has met with provincial officials who are reviewing P.E.I.’s poverty reduction strategy, and would like to see the government target food insecurity as part of that strategy. She urged government to…
Organic Always Means Pesticide-Free
Organic foods typically contain fewer pesticides than non-organic foods, but there are over 20 chemicals that farmers are able to use on organic crops to help keep those crops pest-free. Mainly, farmers…
