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Hands That Feed, Pt. 2: the Paradox of Essential Food Charity
Food charity is putting a band-aid on a deadly and insidious gangrene—which corporate power and government inaction allows to fester in our communities.
Heidi Janes
December 8, 2020
# charity
Commentary
Food for Thought about Charity
Don’t let philanthropy, government or otherwise, work as a silencer, even if our media opts for cheerleading the charity game instead of asking the hard…
Robin Whitaker
February 6, 2019
Uncategorized
Talking Turkeys
Food banks were supposed to be a temporary measure, not an institution. Could our energies be better spent tackling income inequality, rather than institutionalizing charity?
Maura Hanrahan
December 5, 2014
Uncategorized
Call in the taxmen
How the Harper Government is destroying civil society and why that will hurt us all
Marilyn Porter
December 1, 2014
Power and Dissent
The myopia of charitable giving
Lewis Kearney’s story tugs on the heartstrings, but is charity the best or only response?
Jon Parsons
August 20, 2014
Gadfly
The trouble with charity
Giving and generosity may reduce the burden of immediate suffering and desperation, but if we're serious about finding long term solutions we can begin by…
Robin Whitaker
July 18, 2014
View From The Mainland
Tiny Tim needed more than turkey
...and so do a growing number of Canadians
Brandon Pardy
December 15, 2011