“Highest level of food bank use in Canadian history,” Food Banks Canada CEO warns
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2024
- Food Banks Canada CEO Kirsten Beardsley said amid high levels of inflation, the charitable organization is seeing its "highest level of food bank use in Canadian history." She calls the current use of food banks "unsustainable."
Sharon Palmer, executive director of the Barrie, Ont., Food Bank, said her organization has seen its food donations maintain previous levels, but has fallen short in financial donations.
“Financial donations are also really important because that’s what we use to buy the perishable items like meat, milk, margarine, eggs and those are highly valued items for the clients,” Palmer said.
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can we stop letting international students use the food banks?
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They also have on and off been trying to petition the government for international student "welfare" money...
If you organize, work at run the food bank, why aren't you taking that question to your board and not UA-cam?
@@AP-do6sv why not?
Can we stop defending the root problem of market capitalism running wild all over the world, especially Canada?
I used to donate to food banks all the time, on a very regular basis and it was something I was proud of. I no longer do since a lot of the people I see going to food banks are international students just looking for free hand outs. That is NOT who I want my donated food going to. The system is broken.
My friend you are speaking from a position of privilege and ignorance- International Students Pay HIGH AMOUNTS OF TAXES in this country and the taxes they pay help us the permanent residents/ canadian citizens. These students are just as important as any other person in Canada. Educate yourself before you wreck yourself. The reason people are using Food Banks now is because of CORPORATE GREED!
@@jpd9415 Educate myself? Wow... you're about to be embarrassed. Look up the name Mehul Prajapati and read the story. That's all I need to say. Looks like you're the one that needs education.
@@jpd9415I'm an international student from India. I'm supposed to be here with sufficient funding for my studies and living. Food bank is for people who are in need of it - not international students.
Well, they actually did the night they voted for either Trudeau Sr. or Trudeau Jr.
Agreed... its being used and organized into a regular grocery store now.. I click all their ads to waste their ad money.. I come from a place of meritocracy my guy, wanna fight? Ill earn the win..
People are also turned off from donating to food banks because of the crap about international students abusing them for free food.
100% this
they do though, its for canadians and only canadians that are less well off like single mothers and people on disability and low income young families you dont spend money to travel then expect to eat for free here not how it works , we may be canada but we arent the worlds handout
I've seen Islamic women with BMWs parked in the food bank parking lot filling their cars. I agree it's a result of an abuse of the system.
1.3 million poor unskilled useless immigrants last year. All needing gov't money, housing and free food.
@partytime4217 Well your company probably missed out the food bank in Brampton which was on the news for stopping international students abusing their food programs.
You can thank Justin Trudeau for making life a living hell for Canadians. He’s responsible for this.
And now our once great country is a hell hole…..🤬🤬🤬🇨🇦🇨🇦
@Reviewer-qr5gr You sound like a Gender Studies student.
Trudeau is not responsible for this, CORPORATE GREED is responsible for this. Republican and Liberal or NDP, all accept corporate greed.
People knew what was coming if they voted for Trudeau.
Therefore you can thank you the people who voted for him, it's all them.
@@jpd9415
Yes he is. His policies enabled it.
how about to ban people who don't have citizenship and permanent residency to apply for food bank?
Capitalism will continue to worsen inequality, poverty and social tension if left unchanged structurally.
So sorry, ban all the minority groups you want, it won't change the unsustainable structure of capitalism.
@@coolioso808
Inequality is a natural consequence of freedom.
@@shauncameron8390 "Inequality is a natural consequence of freedom" - That's an evidence-free assumption on your part. Unless you have the scientific studies to back it up, do you?
Because the overwhelming evidence I've seen points to quite the opposite conclusion. Anthropologists have found that over 90% of human history we lived egalitarian, no money, markets or economic classes. That's a more 'natural' order of things if you take it by scale and how much of human history we lived in that orientation.
But if you want to fast forward to modern day, you'll find that the more unequal a society or region, the less freedom, the lower the health and wellness and safety of the people is, overall. USA, 'land of the free' has the least free people - the most people in prison, even more than China or Russia.
Countries that rank consistently high on health and happiness indexes include Denmark, Finland and Iceland - they are very free in many ways, great social support networks for free healthcare, education, quality public transportation, ecologically more friendly energy systems and neighbourhood design, more equal ratio of income between the rich and the poor - higher taxes, but that doesn't create awful happiness rankings, does it?
Capitalism is the Crisis, that's evident to anyone who has seriously looked at the data. What do you propose comes next after capitalism? Or do you plant to ride out capitalist economics to the bitter end, even if other viable alternatives present themselves?
People realized the more they give, the more videos of international students taking advantage.. people are basically donating to feed students
@Reviewer-qr5grfound the immigrant student using the food banks..
@Reviewer-qr5gr we can but not for international students.. rather go around handing out 5.00 bills to homeless vs handing food to a place which will be taken advantage of by gurpal and friends. Here’s an idea.. don’t have the money to come study in foreign country? Don’t come 🤷🏻♂️
@Reviewer-qr5gr no braindead liberal, the system is being abused by non Canadians.
@Reviewer-qr5gr stop taking advantage of our food banks. leave our country.
@@jkb358
Enabled and facilitated by the federal government.
Trudeau, Freeland, and Singh need to go. They are past their expiry dates.
Past rotting and decomposition as well. They stench.
Who do you want to replace them with? PP and the Regressive Conservatives? LOL
@@coolioso808
What's so regressive about the Conservatives? Not giving you any "free" money?
People can't buy even groceries forget home affordability.
"But interest rates are at historic lows, Glenn!"
“I’ll be blunt … housing is not a primary federal responsibility, it’s not something that we have direct carriage of”
Yup! Let's never forget that
"Interest rates are at historic lows Glenn!"
It kind of is, though. They can control costs, inflation, and taxes, which they're very much not doing. They're also not controlling food costs, either.
@@Hollyucinogen Tell that to Jagmeet...eer...I mean Justin.
@@rickvervoort9536 Jagmeet? Justin? Justine? Trudope? 🤔
Students from India in Brampton goes to food bank 3 times a week drive brand new BMW.
This is what happens when you get immigrants from scam economies.
Probably because international students are taking advantage of it and taking food from Canadians who really need it.
But let's have more capitalism and keep locking life essentials like food, housing, transportation, extended healthcare and education behind paywalls that are primarily controlled by private corporations seeking endless profit growth, then huh? That's okay. Just more capitalism will fix things. Maybe Pierre and the Cons are going to magically make free market capitalism work for the first time ever!
@@coolioso808What do you suggest communism ?.
@@bss6356 No. I suggest "A Viable Society" as outlined by Peter Joseph in his talk posted on TZMOfficialChannel and the 5 economic transitions from his book, The New Human Rights Movement.
I suggest Ubuntu Contributionism (aka One Small Town) for communities that desire such a cooperative network of mutual aid support to build prosperity and abundance through direct democracy, sharing, cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership.
Frankly, I don't think most people agree what 'communism' is anyway, so it is a pretty pointless word to use. I prefer system thinking about what a viable system would be structured like and work towards to those ends. Label it whatever you want to but a viable society would NOT be based on the capitalist framework of private ownership of the means of production for endless profit growth.
There is an underlying abuse problem
Maybe it's time for the food bank to start having criteria to use the food bank. I've watched people get out of Tesla's and Mercedes and walk into a food bank.
There were students being encouraged to go there first even if they didn't need it. Some international students have been told Canadians get free Staples at the food bank and they should use it every week.
Or maybe we need to get rid of the party responsible, the one you think it's amazing.
I read a story about a woman that had just lost her husband and needed to use the food bank and she was driving a new truck and someone scolded her. She couldn't sell the truck.
@Reviewer-qr5gr found the immigrant student using food banks.
@Reviewer-qr5gr lol okay immigrant. Keep stealing food from people that need it.
Yes! I agree! You should have to show your income at registration. I’ve been telling the food bank this for years. All you need is an address, and a medical card. Many rich families drive up in Mercedes and BMWs to get free food. Honestly it’s mostly foreign people that I see doing this.
is this woman clueless? does she not see who's coming into the door?
@partytime4217 nope. single arab men, rich scarved women and black people
@partytime4217 are you out in geogetown? that's not the scene here in the GTA.
What is annoying is the foreign people who park their Mercedes and BMWs around the corner and walk to line up for free hand outs. Families are just as bad as the students. I’d also like to know where the $$ the government gave Canadian food banks is? Where is it?
I line up 2xs a month for a good hour or 2 and I can’t receive a single loaf of bread. It’s gotten so busy that there’s not enough to give out anymore. I’m grateful for what I receive but after an hour and a half to walk out with 5- 6 items that’s supposed to last 2 weeks just isn’t enough. I’m so fed up with Canada and BC as a whole. Our government has totally screwed Canadians who are struggling. I’m not even going to start on the New BC Disability Benefit, that’s a punch in the stomach all on its own.
I volunteer for the SSVP in Alberta. We were told we’d receive government funding up to $50k back in February. We haven’t seen anything yet. They tell us the demand was higher than expected and they’re still trying to figure it out.
@@JewelBlueIbanez figures, that’s so unacceptable to treat people like that. Where did all the money really go? Probably into the wallets of the higher ups.
Didn't Justin Trudeau spend $200,000.00 on airplane food on his trip to the Pacific nations conference?
Likely "hotdogs" and "pizza" like Oboma orders.
We used to get a lot more eggs from our chickens than we could ever use, over a dozen every day. Tried to give them to the food bank and of course they wouldn't accept them.
Typical. Sad.
It’s a food safety liability thing. We can’t take them either for our food pantry.
I worked at a local food bank and we could only except graded eggs.
@@JewelBlueIbanez If that were true a person wouldn't be able to sell his eggs but that isn't the case.
Safety reasons.
Sunny ways everyone 👋 Don't worry Gagmeat has your backs🔪🤣😂
Thank Trudeau for that
My family has been in Canada for more than 200 years....We helped build this country and its institutions. I have two degrees, have no home or wealth. I gave up on Canada decades ago..and had to work overseas just to survive. Canada is a SCAM ECONOMY FOR THE RICH AND GREEDY.....and taking care of Canadians like me was NEVER EVER A PRIORITY FOR OUR GOV'T. If I had the money I'd move to a real country with real policies...that really take into account the needs of the average citizen....not only the rich and greedy.
I used to donate to the food bank a lot last year, I stopped because of the allegations of abuse and fraud. Now if you want to donate, I strongly recommend donating to the VETERANS FOOD BANK instead. At least you know the recipient will have to provide their ID and paperwork to verify they are indeed a veteran/first responder and not just some freeloader...
Number one question I hear now: Is my donation just going to a scammer?
Maybe mayor's should not spend money on crap like art work around the city, that cost way too much money, that money could go to feed people ( Calgary) ,
Keep voting Liberal/NDP
Trudeau got your backs guys.. maybe next year he will do something that affects you positively? Maybe the year after?
Sarcasm or snowflake?
This is what voting liberal gets you.
@@randyf1876 i think it's sarcasm it would take a crazy person to vote for liberals.
Keep missing the point that capitalism is structurally violent and unsustainable. The Ruling Elites will thank you for your conformity to their Capitalist World Order!
Want food? Pay up to the Ruling Elite Corporations! Want housing? Same thing!
Soon enough corporations will buy up fresh air and sell it back to us, if we aren't careful.
Thanks to legacy media support by not reporting how poor this Government has performed or zero criticism on the fantasy statements or outright lies. The best they allow is telling you how bad you have it , but complete silence on why if it involves Liberals or NDP.
Stop overtaxing the people so they can afford to fend for themselves. Push for policies that encourage low inflation. Giving people free money/handouts will just push inflation and interest rates up and will just promote the cycle of poverty for most Canadians.
Where do you get your evidence for your ideas? I hope it isn't from just a deep, dark crevasse. What countries are doing the best for the people in terms health, happiness and ecological sustainability which have low social support programs and low taxes and low poverty? Hmm? Denmark? Finland? Sweden? Austria? Costa Rica?
@@coolioso808
Whre do you get yours?
Does a free for all immigration plan have anything to do with increase in Food banks ?
Shocking what has become Canada
Grocery stores throw away so much food why can’t they donate
Because nobody would buy food and wait for them to give it away
Lots of working poor now.
I saw a lady load her BMW trunk with food just picked up from the food bank. Fraud is everywhere
I take care of myself. Can’t care about others in this moment in time.
Sunny ways!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What do u expect, inflation and taxes are so high.
Mom used to work at a food bank (Toronto), decades ago, & was very upset to learn that the people who work there are the first 'takers' and they do not Need the food bank.
Basic foods general foods to sustain healthy lifestyles and only general ones should be free in stores especially the big general stores in every city town like in Canada from coast to coast and any other aside from basic generals should be sold as extra specialized treats and packaged with ads like we have them placed on TV. It's year 2024 CANADA and show the world it's possible.
Who would pay for this? The same people who can't afford groceries now?
Yeah by foreign students
Thanks for Justin Trudeau.
Thanks Justin!
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I guarantee you will never see an MP lining at a food bank with the Lofty Raises they get! The refrigerators are full of fresh food!
Humans are the real animals on this planet.
Maybe the gov should donate billions like they do for ukraine
Thanks Trudeau Singh
food bank should be for canadian only, not international students who pay triple to study and drive with their SUV to hijack the needy... check the admin loop hole~
Wow Trudeau and Singh made history in Canada, the most Canadians using food banks
Thank you Justin Trudeau! We (Canadians) are desperately waiting for an election to kick you out!
Dude nice 👍
Why were food banks started?
Thank you Mr Trudeau.
If you tell people they can get free food, they will come. Women and reporters, work hard to put the whole middle class on free food!
More proof Canada isn’t broken!! 🎉
Shame on you International students 👋
Life ... in the frostbite liberal utopia.
Non Canadians such as international students and migrants should be banned from using food banks. I know many people now who no longer donate.
Raise that carbon tax up even more.
Get woke = Go broke
Ten dollar a day child care
Just in Time
Is it possible the addition of 2 million immigrants to Canada is playing a large role in this situation?
Those people should have known they will own nothing until I say so.
J. Trudeau.
Says the Russian troll who supports Putin.
70% of Canadians own their homes.... I'm reading in Russia that more than 50% of the population rents or lives with family, so it sounds like Putin is telling you you will rent and be happy.
If your leader and your country are so great..... Then go live your grate full prosperous life and stay out of Canadian business/politics.
Denial is a river in Egypt liz.
Exactly 100% percent correct..
@@lizliz4186 lol MUH RUSSIA lolol just like clockwork
@@lizliz4186lay off the drugs.
A lot of comments about rich people using food banks… driving up in high price cars… this is not fraud guys, this is not heeding God’s principles on managing your money.. Buying huge mansions and pricey vehicles then running into hard times ie loss of job , illness, … if you have pricey cars and homes, you should have savings for the “rainy days”… not take from the real poor.
trudeau bringing international students from india who also uses these food banks. of course theres a growing demand for it. its FREE. there's also a video by mehul that worked at TD who shows you how he takes advantage of it as an international student
When u make history teacher to finance minister 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Look up the definition of "freeloader" and youll start to understand
No worries justin only eats organic in season flues it in you wont see him at the food bank.
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It's the Indian international student's!!!
Hey Trudeau you created all this , I hope you are happy
Canadians complain and...don't have babies. We basically created this problem.
How many live in NDP/Liberal ridings in Toronto? All of them? Sorry, no sympathy for any of them.
Christ Jesus is coming back soon folks. May we all repent and live for him before its to late ⏳️ ✝️
FJT, liberal & ndp voters
lol do real Canadians get anything anymore?
HOW ABOUT the people with money, Corporations and the rich...should easily pay for the people without! THE AMOUNT would not even register within their profits! They hoard so much money that you see the effects of it worse year by year! The rich....humans against humans! So Sad.
Stop being envious.
@@shauncameron8390 How about kindness, sharing and compassion towards your fellow human.
@@thedel775
How about you do that at your own expense?
@@shauncameron8390 many hands makes little work....pay your fair share and we all get ahead!
@@thedel775
How about stop living beyond your means and manage what you have better?
People are relying more and more on Food Banks BECAUSE OF CORPORATE GREED!
No. it's because of government meddling and greed.
Canadians VOTED for this.. they wanted it
Should be easy to weed out freeloaders and not a complex problem ? Means testing etc ? And new groups like international students are interesting to read about as education has been sold out now too lol
The rich have too much money. The poor continue to struggle. And it is getting worse!
The corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime is the villain in every story
The poor got exactly what they voted for.
@@shauncameron8390 who would you vote for?
Thats not the rich peoples fault. |Maybe billions should be spent in canada instead of being sent to ukraine
@@DJRS2178 Canada is not a lone ranger in the world. Our country needs to align itself with strong allies. How do the rich make their money? How much do you really know behind the scene? Sounds like you admire the rich?