As Whitehorse students pluck water bottles and food containers from their lunch bags, something unfamiliar to most Canadian schools emerges: a small tin of mixed nuts.
Amid recent research that questioned the effectiveness of blanket, site-wide food restrictions, some experts think the tide could be turning away from specific food bans if a host of other safeguards are employed.
"Children that have allergies are already educated [about] that: they know how to behave to protect themselves. So now we're trying to educate the rest of the population.... Education rather than prohibition," Gagne said.
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