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Charles Levkoe

@clevkoe.bsky.social
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I am the Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems and a professor in health sciences.

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Rabbi David Mivasair @mivasair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism
Cliquez ici pour une version française de cette campagne. Last week, Public Safety Canada tried to quietly redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitic. This marks the first time the Canadian government has...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today we celebrate the opening of the Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present exhibit at the CMHR www.ijvcanada.org/dear-museum-...
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Dear Museum, with Love
A Letter to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the Opening of "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present" from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN), and United Jewis...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Greatly appreciate this op ed from a coalition of food justice leaders clearly stating the movement has nothing in common with MAHA.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 05/02/2026
Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide
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Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide
The recent retraction of peer-reviewed research claiming glyphosate is safe confirms what Indigenous communities have said for years.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it @canadiandimension.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses
Canadian universities are suspending students, cancelling events, and calling in police to suppress pro-Palestinian protest. What’s unfolding on campus is not about safety, but power: a coordinated er...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Some important reflections from Eric Schlosser, 25 years after the publication of Fast Food nation. Spoiler alert: the industrialization and corporatization of our food system has only gotten worse. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser
The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
check out the newest issue of CFS — Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025): We're All(ium) in this Together canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025): We're All(ium) in this Together | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
An excellent article about the dangers of Ontario‘s Bill 5 for Indigenous communities, the public and nature. theconversation.com/ontarios-bil...
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Ontario’s Bill 5 erodes good governance in the province
Ontario’s Bill 5 eliminates key environmental protections and grants the provincial government sweeping powers to fast-track development with little to no oversight.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New report from the @jewishfacultyca.bsky.social details CIJA’s pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial www.jewishfaculty.ca/cija-report
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The CIJA Report | Jewish Faculty Network
A Pattern of Anti-Palestinian Racism and Genocide Denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. Published by the Jewish Faculty Network.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A discussion on why Palestinians deserve more than food aid, they deserve food sovereignty with @sarahrotz.bsky.social and Dimitri Lascaris @reason2resist.bsky.social youtu.be/b_3RBtscqlY?...
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Palestinians Deserve More Than Food Aid - They Deserve Food Sovereignty
YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Lakehead University’s Dept of Health Sciences fall 2025 newsletter is now available mailchi.mp/72fdfc064146...
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Making an Impact in Public Health & Health Research
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My discussion of food as a weapon of genocide in Palestine on Superior Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our latest editorial in Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation Authors provides updates on our new AI policy and the Digesting Food Studies podcast canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
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News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Food as a weapon of war': Local academic says Canada must act against starvation in Gaza www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/f...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Listen to the second episode of digesting food studies that focusses on indigenous food sovereignty now! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Podcast Episode · Digesting Food Studies · 2025-09-04 · 30m
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Presenting our award-winning landrace watermelon from at Hymers fair this weekend - northern grown, chemical free, agroecological magic! foodsystems.lakeheadu.ca/agroecology-...
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 05/09/2025
News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation David Szanto Alexia Moyer Charles Z. Levkoe Laurence Godin Rachel Engler-Stringer #Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. Text overlay: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation (CFS/RCÉA), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 04/09/2025
Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation Just Published! #OpenAccess #SchoolFood #FoodWaste #Resilience #Equity #SchoolLunches #FeedingChildren #Environment canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Today, over 600 food, nutrition, and agricultural scholars, students, workers, practitioners and organizations signed a letter demanding immediate escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people foodstudies.info/wp-content/u...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Sign this open letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, demanding escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against Palestinians. forms.gle/btMG4eb9fAzY...
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) Ad Hoc Working Group on Palestine and the Right to Food Open Letter against food as a weapon of war to the Federal Government
If you identify as a food, nutrition and/or agricultural scholar, student, worker, and/or practitioner living or working in Canada on Indigenous territories, please consider adding your name to this l...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Join us for this virtual and in person event, focussing on seed sovereignty and agroecology in the north
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians - an editorial from DEBORAH COWEN, NAOMI KLEIN, KYO MACLEAR and MADELEINE THIEN www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians
Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 10/07/2025
Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience Lowitt Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social Breen Harris Harrison MacDonald Stephens Stoll Negri Warne Loring @philiploring.com canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
“Carceral Food Systems” under an image of a tomato plant and a chain intertwined. The tomato plant appears to break through the chains. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): Exploring carceral food systems: Tensions, experiences and possibilities.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him by Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him | Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott
Federal and provincial governments are ‘flooding the zone’ with damaging corporate giveaways under the guise of resistance
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Sarah Rotz @sarahrotz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."
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Genocide by Starvation
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wo...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Rally and Round Dance Opposing Bill 5 - June 2 @ Queens Park
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
For folks in Toronto June 4
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
UN: “100 per cent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.” Food is a fundamental human right and denying it is a violation of international humanitarian law. Yet, here we are. ipes-food.org/food-cannot-... www.ft.com/content/0064...
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Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN
Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
An update from Palestine Solidarity Thunder Bay www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/w...
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'We have family back home': Locals rally for Palestinians in Gaza, Thunder Bay
Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Powerful voices from @naturesdefence.bsky.social against Bill 5 youtu.be/wKGcHx0mDKw
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Bill 5 Address at Queen's Park - Standing Committee on the Interior (May 26, 2025)
YouTube video by Legal Advocates For Nature's Defence
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 22/05/2025
Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems
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Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems
The Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council offers lessons for strengthening democracy and building participatory governance mechanisms in Canada and beyond.
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Independent Jewish Voices @ijvcanada.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today we mark the Nakba, and 77 years of ongoing ethnic cleansing, colonization, apartheid - and now genocide. For over a quarter of a century, Zionism has been a brutal force of violence and settler colonialism. But Palestinians will not be erased. Read more: www.ijvcanada.org/nakba-at-77-...
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Exploring Carceral Food Systems" - Canadian Food Studies launch event REGISTER at: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch of "Carceral Food Systems: Tensions, Experiences and Possibilities". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeti...
Join Canadian Food Studies for an online discussion in celebration of the launch of "Carceral Food Systems: Tensions, Experiences and Possibilities", a themed section of the most recent issue of Canad...
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 12/05/2025
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 08/05/2025
Doug Ford's Bill 5 would put industry above the law. In northern Ontario, First Nations are already impacted by environmental damage and inadequate consultation processes, and some worry things could get worse. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-north...
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First Nations talk Bill 5 in northern Ontario | The Narwhal
The Protecting Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act exempts industry from provincial regulations — putting Indigenous consultation, and much more, at risk
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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 09/05/2025
Just published! #CarceralFood #Punishment #Waste #FamilyMeals #Community! #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
Graphic of a tomato plant breaking free from chains with the text: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation Vol. 12 No. 4 (2024): Exploring Carceral Food Systems.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hot off the press (and open access)! Community Food Systems Report Cards as Tools for Advancing Food Sovereignty in City-Regions www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin... By Charles Z. Levkoe, Mary Anne Martin, Karen Kerk and Francesca Hannan n @cogitatioup.bsky.social
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Community Food Systems Report Cards as Tools for Advancing Food Sovereignty in City-Regions | Article | Urban Planning
Charles Z. Levkoe, Mary Anne Martin, Karen Kerk, Francesca Hannan
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Important discussion on CBC’s Front Burner today about the US government’s war on university professors podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
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‘Professors are the enemy’: Trump’s war on higher education
Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-03-26 · 35m
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Is it even possible to buy local? Supporting farmers and workers would be a good start.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It’s Purim time! Thanks to @peterbeinart.bsky.social for this thoughtful reflection on the telling of the Purim story and the unconscionable slaughter in Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Jews celebrate Purim, let us end the slaughter in Gaza committed in our name | Peter Beinart
Our refusal to reckon with the dark side of Purim reflects a refusal to reckon with the dark side of ourselves
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An excellent opinion piece from iPES Food noting that solutions to hunger are possible but require political will to address root causes theconversation.com/only-politic...
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Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it
Massive political efforts are needed to tackle the root causes of hunger – conflict, poverty, inequality. Technology alone is not sufficient.
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Charles Levkoe @clevkoe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The latest #ICC ruling regarding the warrant to arrest Natanyahu and Gallant included acknowledgment that hunger is being used as a weapon of war. Read more about the way #Canada has used these tactics as well theconversation.com/colonialism-...
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Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada
The destruction of food systems in Gaza and Canada is part of a larger effort of land dispossession and capitalist accumulation. The fight for food sovereignty is about justice and self-determination.
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