Canada Food Guide

Opinion: The nutritious diet recommended by Ottawa is out of reach for millions of Canadians. The next, obvious steps are decent living wages and fairer social benefits

Tabatha Southey: There is no more significant a generational marker in Canada than which Food Guide your mother obligingly taped to the fridge and then largely ignored

For the past 75 years, Canada’s Food Guide has been less about evidence-based policy and more shaped by the undertones of politics.

It’s been 10 years since the last revision, and it took two years and 20,000 submissions to overhaul it. And almost nobody will agree with the result.