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A new cookbook inspired by the memories of a grandmotheröÏÓãÊÓƵapp love, courage and faith is helping to feed hungry Canadians one dish at a time.

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A new study echoes what several others have found since the implementation of the Canada Child Benefit: poverty is declining in Canada with a significant drop in food insecurity among low-income families.

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More than 840,000 Canadians got food from a food bank in March this year. That isn’t the number who needed food they couldn’t afford. ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp just the number who swallowed their pride and figured out when and where they could collect a box of groceries consisting for the most part of stuff grocery shoppers didn’t want for themselves.

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