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Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

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A recent spring food drive in Barrie, Ont. fell $100,000 short on their financial goal. It's part of a growing trend across Canada.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In Windsor the line for one food bank near me has gone from a few people to hundreds.

But they aren't Canadians.

90% are foreign students.

One is a tenant here.

He throws away 75% of the food he gets. 2 days ago he threw away 6 boxes of kd. 3 pies. A jar ofbbq sauce. Buns, bread, candy, pasta. He kept the 3 tomatoes. (I kept the kd and BBQ sauce because there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. The pies were eaten by animals instead of hungry people)

You can watch others take their boxes and bags of food, sift through and throw out what they don't want.

Some have taken bags of vegetables only to dump them on the street.

If they can spend 60k on school they shouldn't be stealing from hungry Canadians.

[-] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

Can you get documentation of this? Sounds like ur just posting rage bait.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not really rage bait

It’s known that international students use food banks, Brampton had to ban it awhile back

As for throwing stuff out…why would people expect differently? White people throw things out they don’t like, now imagine being in a country that eats completely different food

Recently

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/04/outrage-ontario-student-food-banks-free-groceries-video/

sorry for source

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada-international-students-food-banks/wcm/1b5e72ce-9d8f-4fbd-8022-46e826876036/amp/

CBC on the ban

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIw1QpsA97E

[-] Biyoo 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Rage bait because the post read as : foreign students take food out of struggling Canadians mouths just to throw it out.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Lol. Yeah. I'm just going to hang out at the food bank taking pictures. I'll also have the housemate sign a sworn affidavit. Brb

[-] floatingpaperweight@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm confused why you don't understand why proof is important in this situation. We live in a time of disinformation, we'd appreciate the evidence for obvious reasons.

At best your pointing out a potential issue, at worst you're getting people to look at this at face value to add fuel to the fire.