Few rational people would deny the contemporary need for food banks. Begun in Canada largely as a temporary anodyne to recession-induced job losses in the 1980’s, they have grown in size and scope, becoming a seemingly permanent fixture on our socio-economic landscape. The annual study by Food Banks Canada reports
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Politics and its Discontents: Heather Mallick On The Insidious Nature Of Poverty
The older I get, the less patience I have with government that preaches an austerity that has a disproportionate impact on the poor. Of the right-wing rhetoric and mythology that all one has to do is to work hard to succeed, so evident in last week’s Republican convention, I have
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