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By Nora O’Malley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ha-Shilth-Sa Vancouver Island, BC – Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. Another recent report from Island Health shows one in five Vancouver Island residents were concerned about food security. Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council dietician and diabetes educator Rachel (Dickens) Greening thinks those numbers are probably even higher for Indigenous communities. \u201cColonization is directly linked to food insecurity. It has resulted in deep poverty for our people,\u201d said Greening, who is of Ts\u2019msyen (Tsimshian) First Nations and Hong Kong descent. \u201cThere are so many examples, like we weren\u2019t allowed to go to university, we weren\u2019t allowed to leave the… <\/p>\n

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By Nora O’Malley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ha-Shilth-Sa Vancouver Island, BC – Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. Another recent report from Island Health shows one in five Vancouver Island residents were concerned about food security. Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council dietician and diabetes educator Rachel (Dickens) Greening thinks those numbers are probably even higher for Indigenous communities. \u201cColonization is directly linked to food insecurity. It has resulted in deep poverty for our people,\u201d said Greening, who is of Ts\u2019msyen (Tsimshian) First Nations and Hong Kong descent. \u201cThere are so many examples, like we weren\u2019t allowed to go to university, we weren\u2019t allowed to leave the... <\/p>\n

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