Food banks are Ontario’s ‘canary in a coal mine’

October 3, 2024 @ 9:00 amColumns, Walkerton-Wingham-Listowel

Feed Ontario (Ontario Association of Food Banks) issued a press release earlier this month to announce a grim milestone – over a million people visited a food bank in the province last year. Considering that Ontario’s population as of 2022 was 15.145 million, the number of food bank users is disturbing. It suggests that in…
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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.