Public’s ‘Desperate, Hopeless’

Rising food costs are driving Canadians to “hopelessness and desperation,” a National Advisory Council on Poverty yesterday reported to Parliament. Updated figures due this spring are expected to show a sharp rise in poverty rates due to inflation, it said: “Things seem worse now than they were before.”

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