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13 Oct 2024

School food programs hope $1B from Ottawa will fill need as they wait for governments to sign on

Author: admintech | Filed under: Finance/ Money
A smiling boy holds a lunch tray of milk, macaroni and cheese, steamed veggies, a piece of bread and cooked fruit, with other students serving and collecting lunch behind him.

Six months after the federal government announced $1 billion to establish Canada’s first national school food programĀ and a month after the first jurisdiction officially signed on, food providers tell CBC News what they’re facing this school year.