RIGHT TO FOOD IN CANADA: A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION Vancouver City Hall Monday, March 4, 9 a.m. The patchwork of government and charitable programs meant to protect poor Canadians from hunger is failing, according to a report to the United Nations on food security in Canada. Nowhere is that failure more evident than in Metro Vancouver, with its plethora of food banks, waste food diversion programs, soup kitchens and school-based inner city meal programs, say local critics. Charities, municipal governments and schools stepped up to feed hungry children in the absence of any effort by senior levels of government to take on poverty and hunger...
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