Karen Foster

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  • Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology; Former Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada (2014-2025), Dalhousie University
A customer shops in the produce section at a grocery store in Toronto in February 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Why Canada must treat its food system as a matter of national defence

Karen Foster, Dalhousie University; Alicia Martin, Dalhousie University; Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary’s University, and Kathleen Kevany, Dalhousie University

Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a window is opening for good ideas to move from the fringes to the mainstream — and that includes a four-day work week. (Simon Abrams/Unsplash)

The day is dawning on a four‑day work week

Karen Foster, Dalhousie University

The four-day work week is an idea that should make it through the pandemic’s open policy window.

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