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Our failed immigration policy has hit food banks hard

Foreign students are a big part of food banks’ new users. Ottawa needs to make sure people coming here to study bring enough money for food

The Daily Bread and North York Harvest food banks recently released their annual Who’s Hungry report. It’s based on a central database used by food banks across Toronto, along with nearly 1400 survey responses collected at 67 sites across the GTA. The data show that in the past year Toronto’s food banks received a record-breaking 3.49 million client-visits this year, nearly a million more than last year.

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