In March 2020, when the Government of Canada introduced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the press release stated that “no Canadian should have to choose between protecting their health, putting food on the table, paying for their medication or caring for a family member.”
Yet recently released reports suggest that many people have to do just that — choose between protecting their health, putting food on the table and paying for other necessities. And many of those people are from racialized communities.
Almost 30 per cent of Indigenous and Black households are food insecure in Toronto, said Maria Rio, director of development and communications with The Stop Community Food Centre, in Toronto. That’s a rate three times higher than white households, according to The Toronto Foundations 2021 Vital Signs Report,
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