Newman profiled in Vancouver Sun

Lenore Newman, an associate professor of geography and the environment and a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment was profiled in The Vancouver Sun on Dec 26.

Excerpt from The Vancouver Sun (Dec 26):

The Fraser Valley would be a concrete wasteland — a Los Angeles of the North — if not for the Agricultural Land Reserve.

That’s the take of Lenore Newman, an associate professor of geography and the environment at Fraser Valley University and a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment.

Newman is a recent inductee into the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada, and she spoke to The Sun about how the ALR has shaped Vancouver into a stunning, vertically-oriented city and fertilized its highly regarded food scene.

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