Louis Shalako
Some commenter
on Youtube was all incensed. He told me I was ‘lucky’ to line up at food banks, and he stated that I was ‘lucky’ to be able to go every ten days,
and that ‘most places it’s only once a month’. So I decided, in all fairness,
to do some fact-checking.
“...on average, in Halifax, you can go once a month”.
So, dickweed maybe had a point to make after all—
HOW OFTEN YOU CAN GO AND WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
Each food bank is a little different, but on average you can go once a month, and you’ll receive 3 to 5 days of food per person in your household.
“Sun Youth assigns one day per month for food
distribution to each group. It is strongly recommended to the people concerned
that they pick up the products related to their needs on the scheduled day as
the availability of some products is dependent upon the donations Sun Youth
receives. Senior Day is the first Monday of the month, Kosher Day (day for
seniors requiring kosher food) the first Thursday, the Day for pregnant women
is the second Tuesday of the month and Magic
Day (day of HIV positives) the second Thursday.”
Hmn. Another once-a-month food bank. Sure hope you’re
not on disability. This is the one where you’re paying 70 % of your income,
which is thirty or forty percent below the poverty line, in rent. Assuming you
have a phone and wear clothes, this leaves $1.25 per day to ‘budget’ for food,
according to certain front-page nutritionists, big girls who just like to cook,
on a six-month contract and a government grant.
After that, they’ll be back on welfare, living in
no-daddy alley, and having no idea that they were basically just conned into
making such statements. Still, if it moved a few rutabagas, some corporation
somewhere gets a tax credit for their donation of some rotten old produce.
Winnipeg: once every two weeks. Bear in mind, larger
cities have more than one food bank.
Locally, our three major food banks have a
computer system, which tracks entries and they know when you’ve been to another
food bank. If it’s a long weekend, and if you had to work, you were in
dialysis, your kid was hit by a car, whatever you do, don’t show up a day early
or they’ll give you shit for something.
No details on how often you can go, but they take
special note of the ‘gratitude’ and the ‘hope’ when someone gets a box of food.
Yeah, the cocksuckers are
hoping to live another 1-3 days without blowing their brains out.
North Bay, Ontario: 1-3 days worth of food, once a month. If that ain’t a solution to poverty, I’d sure as hell like to know what is.
#Ontario_Chamber_of_Commerce
Kenora and District food banks provide 1-3 days food, once a month to every three months...
#national_disgrace
...wow. That is some solution to poverty, ladies and gentlemen.
#local_radio
I’ve often wondered if these guys are as quite as
stupid as they make themselves out to be. If these guys had spent half as much
time fighting poverty as they have glorifying
food banks, something might have actually been done about it by now.
Another good-news, heartwarming story from Canadian Journalism.
#fuck
Temporary Food Bank still going strong after 25 years.
SOME OF THE BEST FOOD BANKS IN THE WORLD ARE IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO!!!
#Ontario_Chamber_of_Commerce
Five fucking stars in the Michelin Review of Canadian Food Banks.
I’m sure.
#Doug_Ford
Yeah, that 1-3 days of food from a Canadian food bank sure makes up for a lot—like the missing $1,000.00/month from your disability pension. You know, considering the poverty line in this country is $20-22,000.00/year and everything.
#fuck_off
Oh, boy, look at all those lovely food banks. This is a good link, I know that because it’s posted by the fucking Health Department.
#Canadian_Journalism
...fuck, they’re working their asses off, institutionalizing it...I hear Doug Ford wants to set up a Ministry of Food Security, and rationalize it, perhaps even privatize it. Then some Toronto Sun commenters get to decide who is deserving poor and who isn’t.
#fuck
Yeah...look at all that hope, ladies and gentlemen.
#joy_to_the_fucking_world
No word on how often you can go, but three day’s worth of food from the Salivation Army in Windsor.
#fuck
https://windsoressex.cioc.ca/record/WIN1190
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