New data highlights how more than one in five Nova Scotia households are food insecure, prompting opposition parties to renew calls for a universal school lunch program.
Nourish Nova Scotia has named Pictou County resident Lindsay Corbin as the Coordinator of the Nova Scotia Coalition for Healthy School Food. Corbin helped create Nourish in 2012 and helped coordinate Nourish Your Roots fundraisers in Pictou County. The Nova Scotia coalition, which is connected to the national coalition of healthy school food, is advocating
Executive director Nick Jennery says his organization set a record last year for the amount of food distributed, and he worries about what's to come for people in need in the province.