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A local nutrition program is one of the charities set to benefit from the Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookie Week, slated to begin this Monday.

A local nutrition program is one of the charities set to benefit from the Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookie Week, slated to begin this Monday.

A local nutrition program is one of the charities set to benefit from the Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookie Week, slated to begin this Monday.

A local nutrition program is one of the charities set to benefit from the Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookie Week, slated to begin this Monday.

Half of a tangerine instead of a whole one, half of a hard-boiled egg or an apple cut six ways — student nutrition programs across Ontario are finding ways to stretch increasingly insufficient dollars.

Province needs to double funding, say student nutrition programs and advocates ahead of the spring budget, to be presented March 26.

The Ministry of Community, Children and Social Services sends funding to 14 lead agencies for snack and meal programs across Ontario.

TORONTO - Half of a tangerine instead of a whole one, half of a hard-boiled egg or an apple cut six ways — student nutrition programs across Ontario are finding

Students are coming to school hungry. In a release, its stated that Canada is the only industrialized country that doesn’t have a national school meal program.

The Ontario Student Nutrition Program feeds kids at Stella Maris Catholic School and 30 other schools in the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board system.