Canada is the only country in the G7 that doesn’t have a national school food program. Researchers say that as high inflation affects food prices, more children need access to these programs — but community groups say they need stable funding from the federal government to keep everyone fed.
It always seems strange when my American spouse talks about school lunches. As a Canadian, it’s entirely out of my experience.
Even eating at school wasn’t a thing for us—when I was in elementary school, only the kids being bussed in (a tiny minority) didn’t go home for lunch.
Y’all went home for lunch in elementary?? In 4 elementary schools I bounced through, not any of them let us leave for any reason.
I’m from small town, Saskatchewan and most of the kids in town went home for lunch.
Small Northern Ontario town in the 1980s. Everyone’s houses were within walking distance of the school, and it was normal for kids as young as five years old to walk home unattended. The school had been built in stages, I think starting in the 1920s, and there was no proper cafeteria, just a basement lunchroom with no facilities for storing or cooking food.
Some of us went home, but the school also offered a program - Vancouver, BC