Elaine Power says a few decades back, close to the start of her career, Canada started viewing food as the solution to food insecurity.
Power is now approaching retirement from her work as a professor at Queen’s University focused on food insecurity, while the number of Canadians who are food insecure is on the rise.
She’s part of a collective that says research shows that the best way to reliably reduce food insecurity is to foster greater income security for low-income Canadians.
That collective is called the Hungry Stories Project.
Their goal is to to make art and write stories that will get people talking about food insecurity and about what we can do to make sure no one ever goes hungry.
A graphic novel from fellow collective members Dian Day and Amanda White called Shy Cat and the Stuff The Bus Challenge comes out this month and aims to introduce concepts around food insecurity to young readers, and challenge some conventional narratives.
The story follows the story of an elementary school-er and her friend -who is going through food insecurity- as their class is taking part in a school food drive challenge.
Power spoke with People First Radio about that story and about food insecurity in Canada.
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