Highlighting the Vancouver Food Asset Map and its Recent Changes
The Vancouver Food Asset Map has recently been updated to reflect the latest changes in the food resources in the city and to introduce new categories for demographics with barriers to food access. Following the recent changes, the number of food resources has increased to over 1000 mapped across Vancouver.
Youth Transitioning Out of Care Food Insecurity Report
A new report, No One Should Go to Bed Hungry: Food Insecurity among youth with government care experience in Metro Vancouver, led by TRRUST (Transition in Resources, Relationships, and Understanding Support Together), is bringing critically important attention to the reality of youth who face food insecurity. TRRUST is a collective impact initiative working to achieve
Our 2025 Year-End Report is Here!
The VNFNs offer a unique “collective action” approach to drive change. Highly connected organizations, communities and individuals work together with a common aspiration for justice through community development and systems change advocacy. As we see, collective action works.
Beyond Public Grocery Stores: Community-Based Markets
The continued skyrocketing cost of food has sparked renewed interest in public or socialized grocery stores, in particular after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed opening five such stores in various boroughs, with the first store scheduled to open in 2027. The city will purchase the land and cover construction/capital costs, while private or non-profit
Sunrise Food Market – It’s Time for a Publicly Owned Grocery Store
Sunrise Food Market in the Downtown Eastside at Powell and Gore is on the market for $4.5M and the land value, though not for sale at this time, is an additional $3.9M. Sadly, the most affordable food store in Vancouver is unlikely to be reopened in the same manner, if at all.
An Apple a Day: Food is medicine—but access is unequal
An Apple a Day by Isabela Bonnevera for alive magazine Ian Marcuse of the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition was featured in alive magazine’s January 2026 issue, in an article by Isabela Bonnevera that highlights the issue of food insecurity in Canada. Food insecurity now affects nearly one in four Canadians, and the impacts are felt unequally within society. Marcuse stresses the importance of taking