About two weeks ago, the Salvation Army Food Bank in Brant County had to temporarily close for a day after high demand at its Paris, Ont., location saw its shelves emptied.
About two weeks ago, the Salvation Army Food Bank in Brant County had to temporarily close for a day when its Paris, Ont., location ran out of donations.
“It wasn’t a situation where we would ever willingly choose to do, it was just the reality of the situation,” he said.The organization estimates 25 per cent of Canadians could fall under this category because they can’t afford two or more household essentials.2nd-largest diamond ever unearthed found by Canadian company in Botswana
“It used to be that having a job meant that you would not need to access a food bank,” Feed Ontario’s chief executive officer, Carolyn Stewart, wrote in a statement at the time.
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