A new report says Toronto has the highest percentage of children living in poverty of any large city in Canada — 27 per cent.
In Montreal, 25 per cent of children were living in poverty in 2014.
Only half of children in families with an annual income of less than $30,000 were found to participate in out-of-school art or sports programs, compared with 93 per cent of students in families with an income of $100,000 or more.
The number of people accessing Canadian food banks increased for the third consecutive year in 2016, and is now 28% higher than before the 2008-2009 recession, according to a national study released today by Food Banks Canada.
In total, 863,492 people received food from a food bank in March 2016; 307,535 were children – more than one-third of all people accessing the service.
A few years back when elected premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty pledged to eliminate child poverty - not poverty itself. One wonders how a government can lift children out of poverty but not their parents. The answer is they can't.
A few years back when elected premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty pledged to eliminate child poverty - not poverty itself. One wonders how a government can lift children out of poverty but not their parents. The answer is they can't.
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