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First food bank opens at Amherst high school

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Dianne Crosby standing in her kitchen

Struggling to survive on social assistance

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JIM GUY: Homelessness continues to underline poverty in Cape Breton

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Teaching kids about giving in the age of gluttony

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Twyla Nichols in the kitchen at the Spryfield YWCA

Halifax Heroes: A food security champion in Spryfield

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Family poverty rates higher in Indigenous, African-Nova Scotian communities

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Fiona Traynor of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service

'People are suffering': Anti-poverty groups want Community Services overhaul

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The national housing strategy must focus on the homeless

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people gathered at tables in the Food Centre

Dartmouth North Community Food Centre gets a $20,000 grant

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Antoinette Perry delivering PEI's throne speech

Housing, carbon emmissions, poverty targeted in PEI throne speech

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