From snack programs to breakfast and lunch programs, the School District of Mystery Lake now offers food to all their students.

It wasn’t always that way, but guaranteed funding has made it possible for each school to make sure their students have the food they need to fuel both body and mind.

Jolene Brown, Assistant Superintendent with the District explains where the funding came from.

“So in September of 2024, the former Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning, Nello Altomare, was responsible for overseeing and executing Canada’s first universal school food program. When he passed away in January 2025, the government announced that they would be introducing legislations to permanently entrench the program which will now be known as Nello’s Law.”

Brown said it was this initiative that expanded the program in Thompson and throughout the province.

Learn more about the food programs available in our local schools.  Tune in to Thompson Today this afternoon at12:40 and 5:10.