Has a Broken System Turned Food Banks Into the New Social Safety Net? | The Agenda

As high inflation sends record numbers of Ontarians to food banks, we look at the history of charitable organizations in Canada and their purpose today. How did places originally intended for temporary aid in the 1980s become permanent staples for those in need and increasingly the working poor? Experts examine where the responsibility for tackling food poverty should lie, when it comes to governments, charities, corporations, and citizens.

00:00 Intro
00:56 The history of food banks 
01:50 Poverty and food bank numbers in Ontario
04:00 Why are people using food banks so much?
05:00 More employed people using food banks
06:50 Are people abusing food banks?
09:35 Is government abdicating their social safety net duties?
11:00 Corporations’ involvement in food banks
12:37 Who funds food banks?
14:22 Loblaws donating to food banks
15:46 Low-wage workers forced to use food banks
22:40 Loblaws employees using food banks
23:58 How the Ford government is addressing poverty
26:00 Guaranteed Annual Income 
27:02 A Minister of Food Banks?
28:30 Social determinants of health
31:45 Changing Canadians acceptance of food banks

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