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RESEARCH MEDIA LAUNCH!

On October 30th 2007 the team will launch the final report Talking Back To Grownups: Healthy Children, Healthy Communities – a report on the social determinants of health and middle childhood in Canada at Ottawa’s National Press Club in the Sheraton Hotel. Eventually, we will also present to the Senate Sub Committee of Public Health at the Canadian Senate. Although, this research will soon be publicly launched, last July we took the opportunity to present our findings to a multi-sectoral team of specialists at the Pacific Palisades Hotel in Vancouver. That meeting was a unique opportunity for us to receive feedback on our research prior to the report’s official launch. Since then we’ve been working hard to implement necessary changes in order to further clarify the methodology, validity and statistical significance of our findings. For those of you, who are in the National Capital region, please contact us to reserve a spot at our launch.

To register for the Breakfast event please call (613) 232-5751 ext:233 or Email Maria.sterniczuk@unac.org



Registration : 7:45 am


Continental Breakfast and Programme: 8:00 - 9:00 am



the event is RSVP only

hey gabo- testing, testing..

Bad policy feeds obesity problem

ottawa citizen
Fridau August 24 2007
by, Éric Beauchesne and Derek Abma


"Farm regulation is costing families big bucks, study finds... Canada's protection of its milk, egg and poultry farmers from foreigh competition acts as a regressive tax that costs families...approximately 200 - 250$ a year... and hurt's Canada's international trade reputation."

"When...two litters of coke is 99cents...and a carton of milk is $4.50 to $4.75, we're encouraging families to buy cheaper, less noutritious products."

However, this system "ensures farm families have stable revenue for what they produce, guarantees processors a secure supply of milk for processing and this ultimately serves consumers through the availability of safe, high-quality products when they go to the store."