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Feds should take steps to create national food program for schools

Providing meals, nutrition education, and food skills training that instil healthy eating habits for the next generation has the potential to reduce ballooning health-care costs.

Canada is the only G7 country without a national school-food program. It is time for that to change.  Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash
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