Die explodierende Nachfrage zwingt Lebensmittelbanken dazu, Dienstleistungen und Lebensmittelportionen zu reduzieren
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/skyrocketing-demand-forces-food-banks-to-reduce-services-food-portions/
Die explodierende Nachfrage zwingt Lebensmittelbanken dazu, Dienstleistungen und Lebensmittelportionen zu reduzieren
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/skyrocketing-demand-forces-food-banks-to-reduce-services-food-portions/
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“Canadians will hold us to account by their experience at the grocery store, when they are paying their electricity bill, when they or their children are looking for a place to live,” Carney said.
I live paycheque to paycheque and used to get a hamper every two weeks, now it’s once a month and smaller.
With gas prices up, it takes more money away from groceries. My credit card balance goes up every month in order to survive.
This is the result of 11 years of Liberal rule. Nice work!
„I wore red for you“
according to this Sub 2 Days ago, Carney is making Economic breakthroughs and this is only temporary.
Thankfully Canada is still a country of decent human beings who step up to support their local food banks.
Mass, unfiltered immigration and being a magnet for refugees has consequences.
„Judge me by the price of groceries“ – Mark Carney. So I’m guessing another 10 point bump for the Liberals this week? /s
With oil prices up due to war in the Middle East, the cost of food will rise further (fertilizer and diesel at the farm level; cascading through transport costs to bring items to shelf).
Doesn’t help that 1/3 of food bank users are children and Canada is one of the only members of the OECD & only G7 country without a national school food program [Link](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-national-school-food-program-advocates-1.6980950)
Newcomers (in country less than 10yr) account for 34% of demand driving more questions about sustainable immigration levels – ensuring proper social programs and adequate employment are in place. [Link](https://foodbankscanada.ca/hunger-in-canada/hungercount/overall-findings/)
MB just removed PST on groceries to try and alleviate pressure ([link](https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/?item=73202)) and hopefully other provinces will follow suit with similar policies.
Things aren’t looking great. Time to cancel your Disney+ subscription again /s
High trust society transitioning into low trust.
What a run we had
There is also a group of peoples that are abusing the generosity of food banks, without shame. But we can’t talk about that.