Fair Trade
- Brandon Stores Fair Trade Products (updated May 2019)
- The Marquis Project Fair Trade Workplace Certificate
- Fairtrade Products are Available at These Restaurants in the City of Brandon
- The City of Brandon won a Special Recognition: Fair Trade Town All-Star for 2017 award (having won Fair Trade Town of the year award in 2014, 2015 and 2016) as well as Fair Trade Event of the year (for the Fair Trade Feast 2017). For more information about the awards see: Canadian Fairtrade Awards 2017
- Zack Gross (former Marquis Executive Director) for the Fairtrade Canada 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.
See: News Release | Fairtrade Awards Website
Fairtrade is about more than fair pay; it is about building connections, community investments, and environmental sustainability. Thanks largely to the Marquis Project and the community, Brandon proudly became Manitoba’s second Fair Trade Town on May 20nd 2014, the 19th Fair Trade Town in Canada! A Fair Trade Town is a community where people use their everyday purchasing power to increase sales of Fairtrade certified products. This brings positive change to communities in the global south. There are hundreds of Fairtrade products in 20 stores right here in Brandon. Check out the Brandon Stores with Fair Trade Products for more details. Choose fairtrade products at 20 restaurants/gas bars right here in Brandon including A&W, Blue Hill Bakery, Coffee Culture, Co-Op Gas and Bar, Fired Pizzeria, Forbidden Flavours, Lady of the Lake, Prairie Firehouse, Robin’s Donuts, Starbucks, The Dock on Princess, Wildflower Café.
Brandon Fairtrade product facts for 2018:
- 93 different kinds of Fairtrade coffee
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51 different kinds of Fairtrade tea
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97 different kinds of Fairtrade chocolate bars
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20 different kinds of Fairtrade wine
See more:
- Summer/Fall 2019 CFTN Fair Trade Magazine
- Fair World Project – Fall 2019 – Winter 2020 For a Better World magazine
- City of Brandon – A Fair Trade Town
- Fair Trade Town
- Congratulations to four local Fair Trade Workplaces: CAA Manitoba (Brandon), The Marquis Project, Riverbank Discovery Centre, and The Salvation Army and two local Fair Trade Faith Groups: Grace Mennonite Cathedral and The Salvation Army
- Fair Trade Feast at the Dock
- Fair Trade Town City Council Presentation May 2019 (year 2018-2019)
- For more information visit Fairtrade Canada or Canadian Fair Trade Network
- Check out Facebook Marquis Fairtrade for more information